His
plans were ambitious, to say the least.
In the fall of 1874, Brown stated that he was going to move the road to
a spot where the grade wasn’t so steep.
One wonders why he didn’t build the road with this in mind, in the first
place. Nonetheless, work proceeded, with
blasting done in order break the hard rock composing much of the pass.
By
February of 1875, the work was done.
Essentially, a new road had been built at the summit, and Brown was
ecstatic. Or, so it seemed.
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