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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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anda hotel. A new flouring-mill will be erected thisyear (1876). It has a sprightly newspaper calledthe Independent. You are now near the famousElkhorn Valley and River. By a deep cut,the railroad makes its way through the bluff or stream, where they were previously unknown.The elevation of Waterloo is laid down at 1,140feet. The town has a fine water-power whichhas been improved by the erection of a largeflouring-mill. It also has a steam-mill in processof construction, and a new depot. At this pointyou enter the Platte Valley, of which so muchhas been written and which occupies such aprominent place in the history of the country.The Elkhorn and Platte Rivers form a junction afew miles south of this point, and the banks ofthese streams are more or less studded with tim-ber, mostly cottonwood. In fact, the Elkhornhas considerable timber along its banks. Valley—is 35.2 miles from Omaha, and is1,120 feet above the sea. It has a store andhotel, and is the center of a rich farming dis-
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KIGHT SCENE. PRAIRIE ON FIRE. hill on the east side of this stream, about a milefrom the station, and then on a down grade youglide into the valley. The rolling prairies arenow behind you and south, beyond the PlatteRiver, which for the first time comes into view.Crossing the Elkhorn River you arrive at Waterloo,—30.9 miles from Omaha, andonly two miles from the last station. A fewyears since, a train was thrown from the bridgespoken of, by reason of the high water of afreshet. This train had one car of either youngfish or fish-eggs in transit; the contents of thiscar were of course lost in the river, and sincethat time the Elkhorn abounds in pike, pickerel,bass, sunfish and perch. What the Californiastreams lost by this disaster, the Elkhorn gained,as these fish have increased rapidly in this trict. The land seems low, and one would easilygain the impression that the soil here was verywet, but after digging through the black surfacesoil two or three feet you come to just such sanda

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