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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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upon one ex-tremity of itWe soon passa 1 i 11 le towncalled NorthOgden, at acanon throughthe mountains,which is some-times called Og-den Hole, orNorth OgdenCanon. Beforethe road wasbuilt throughOgden Canonproper, this wasthe nearestsource of com-mit n i cationwith the valleythe other side ofthe mountains.There are aboutnine mile< u;straight trackhere and wesoon arrive at Bonneville— 8 7 1 milesfrom San Fran-cisco, with ane 1 e v at4,310 feetLa merely a Bidetrack. TheMormons havesome tiic farms in this vicinity, and between therailroad and base of the mountains there aremany cultirated fields and fine orchards of apple:1 peacji trees. There are frequent canonsthrough the range, at the mouth of which arelittle settlements or villages; the creeks from thecanons supplying the water which irrigates theirfields, gardens and orchards. The largest ofthese settlements or villages are called WillardCity and Brigham City, and their business is nowdone almo8l exclusively with the Utah North-
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ion of ^^B^i:et. It 5. - £&£U^^ ern Railroad, which runs parallel with the Cen-tral Pacific between Ogden and Corinne and near-er the base of the mountains. The next station isBrigham,—862 miles from San Francisco;elevation, 4,220 feet. A side track for the pass-ing of trains. It is the station for BrighamCity, which is some three miles away, though itdoes not look half that distance. Leaving thisstation we cross some alkali marshes near, andcross an arm of the lake or small bay, with theeastern part of the Great Salt Sea in full view, with Promon-tory Mountainsbeyond. Ap-proaching Co-rinne we enterthe celebratedBear River Val-ley, crossing theriver on a pilebridge andreach Corinne, —857 miles fromSan Francisco,with an eleva-tion of 4,294feet. It is thelargest Gentile,town in the Ter-ritory, and ifnot hated is cor-dially and ef-fectually letalone by most ofthe Mormons inthe surroundingsettlements.The natural lo-cation is excel-lent, and whenthe thousands ofacres of fertilela

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