Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — Distance Encompassed by Vision. [ARTICLE]

Distance Encompassed by Vision.

One hundred and eighty-three miles is the longest distance ever encompassed by human vision, being the distance between the Uncompahgre Peak, in Colorado, and Mount Ellen, In Utah. The feat was accomplished by the surveyors of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, who are engaged in conjunction with representatives of other nations, in making a new measurement of the earth. The observers on the Pacific coast have been able to signal from Mount Shasta to Mount Helena, a distance of 190 miles, but have never been able to get a response. Between the other two peaks communication has been continuous for an hour or more on several occasions. The Uncompahgre fe 14,300 feet. This is the height, while Mount Ellen is 13,400 feet The longest distance that the human eye had ever reached prior to the foregoing record was 108 miles, between Algiers and Spain.