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Title: Announcement of Prof. S. J. Sedgwick's illustrated course of lectures and catalogue of stereoscopic views of scenery in all parts of the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains : between Omaha and San Francisco
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sedgwick, S. J. (Stephen James) Union Pacific Railroad Company. Stereoscopic views across the Continent West from Omaha
Subjects: Stereoscopic views
Publisher: Newtown, Queens County, N.Y. : S.J. Sedgwick
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of sj^reading intelligence among the masses.—X. /. City Star. These wonderful appearances can be liken?d to labyrinths, or ruins of medifc-val ciiies, or they may be assigned under a geological hypothesis, as the resultof some astonishing diluvian labor,—but once having been seen,—you will pass
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on,—the vision will remain,—as the ruins of the palaces of a race of unseenbeings,—as the city of the dead,—for the fossils entombed at their base declareit. They are the Kock Sculptures of what we call God. Failures.—There are failures in farming, stock raising and min-ing as well as in merchandise and banking. They are businesses tobe learned as well as the latter. No one need expect to go intothem successfully without a suitable education, combined with a gooddeal of experience. Where to find the best lands for grain, grass and stock raising ;for fruits, tropical or suitable to our latitude ; the best localities forgold, silver or coal mining ; the best lumber regions; the advantagesand disadvantages connected with them ; the expenses, actual andprobable, that will have to be encountered ; the best way to go andmanage in order to be successful—in so far as the writer is compe-tent, he will cheerfully give any information to those who maydesire it. Manufactures of almost

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