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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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ge for all kinds of grain stands thus: 7,42139,264 - 131,174228,401 - 324,820526,248 This will serve to show the rapidity with which population isflowing into that region. During the same time the number of coun-ties increased from five to nine. Kansas exhibited at the Centennial Exposition a stalk of maize 21feet high. A man by reaching up with umbrella or cane, couldtouch the lowest ear. When Emigration went by ox-teams, improvements were snail-paoed ; when by steam or sailboat, they were confined to the marginsof rivers and lakes ; but as the iron horse thunders over the bars,every part, highland or lowland, feels his tread and partakes of hisuntiring energy and resistless power. 1872, acreage of all grains 1873, a 1874, (( 1875, (( 1876, ii 1877, ti (Elephas Primigenius, Blum.) The great Siberian mammoth, whose remainswere found, in the year 1799, frozen in the ice banks at the mouth of the riverLena, in Siberia. The skeleton now stands in the Museum of the Imperial Academy of St.
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Petersburg. This restoration is made from bones of a larger individual in theRoyal Museum of Stuttgard, Wirtemburg. Height, 16 feet; length, includingforward curve of tusks, 26 feet. In Prof. H. A. Wards Nat. Science Establish-ment, Rochester, N. Y. TO TOURISTS.For Colorado. From Pueblo, by way of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, toCucharas, and then pass over the Sangre de Christo range, by wayof the Veta Pass ; then north of west by stage to Del Norte, and onto Silverton, passing Antelope Park on yourway, and from Silvertcnnorth to Lake City, examining the great San Juan silver district;thence east by way of ^^agllache, and on through Puncho Pass, andthere strike the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and by itback to Pueblc—is perhaps one of the most magnificent tours in theworld, and can scarcely fail to convince the beholder of the stupend-ous, magnificent and enchanting scenery, as well as the immense andvaried resources of Colorado. Another tour, up the Clear Creek

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