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Title: Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Crofutt, George A
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Publisher: Chicago, Ill., The Overland Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Denver, and 184 from Chey-enne. Georgetown is the county seat of ClearCreek county, has a population of 3,500,and some very good business blocks; onebank, numerous stamp mills and oresampling and reduction works, fivechurches, good schools, two weekly news-papers—the Miner and the Courier—andquite a number of hotels, chief of whichare the Barton, the Phelps and the Ameri-can. The Barton is one of the best housesin Colorado, and, together with its *Annexopposite, is capable of accommodating200 guests. Masonic, Odd Fellows andother secret orders have their halls formeetings. Gas works supply the townwith illuminating facilities, and water—the finest in the world—is conducted inpipes from a mammoth reservoir, 500 feetabove the city, which affords great protec-tion in case of fire. There are a number of little towns andmining camps near Georgetown, chief ofwhich are Silver Plume, Brownville andSilver Dale, from two to three miles dis-tant. One remarkable fact exists—and we have
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FOREST VIEW—THE FOOT HILLS OF CALIFORNIA, it on good authority—that the thermometernever has been known to mark more thanfour degrees below zero in the city ofGeorgetown. Situated as it is, this city, atthe head of the valley, walled in on threesides by lofty mountains, which protect itfrom the wind and storms, the air is ofgreat purity, and the climate mild. The first discovery of silver in this re-gion, was made by James Huff, Sept. 14th,1864; the location is about eight milesabove Georgetown. The Georgetown people boast of a bit ofscenery, about ten minutes walk from thehotel, called the Devils Gate and Bridal Vail. Now what the BridalYail has got to do with the DevilsGate, we never could understand. Arethey synonymous words ? Green Lake—is 2 1-2 miles distantfrom Georgetown, reached by an easy car-riage road that winds up the side of themountain, from which there is a fine view of the valley and the town. This beautifulbody of water, half-a-mile long by a quar-ter wide, is w

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