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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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ition. Theseislands are all owned by the Government. Point Labose is six miles w est. Fort Point is northwest from the CityHall, five miles at the south end of GoldenGate. It is the most heavily fortified onthe coast—on the plan of Fort Sumter, inSouth Carolina. Telegraph Hill, to the north, is 394feet high. KussiAN Hill is 360 feet high. Clay St. Hill is 376 feet high. The Twin Peaks, four miles southwest,rise 1,200 feet. The visitor can obtainfrom the summit of these peaks a fine viewof the whole country for many milesaround the Golden Gate, and the GreatPacific Ocean. Ferry-boats run regularly between SanFrancisco and Oakland, Alameda, SanQuentin, Berkley, Sancelito. The general office of the Central andSouthern Pacific railroad companies iscor. Townsend and Fourth streets, on thesouth side of the city; several street carlines run by them. The Seal Rocks are six miles west,reached by a beautiful road. Steamers leave regularly for Vallejo, 26miles; Benicia, 30; Petaluma, 48; Santa
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MOUNT SHASTA, SACRAMENTO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. (See Annex No. 43) (ir>.) AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 209 Cruz, 76; Monterey, 100; Stockton, 110;Sacramento, 125; San Luis Obispo, 209;Eureka, 233; Crescent City, 280; SantaBarbary, 280; San Pedro, 364; San Diego,456; Portland, 642; Victoria, Y. I., 753;Mazatlan, 1,480; Guaymas, 1,710; La Paz,1,802, Acapulco, 1,808: Sitka, 1,951; Hono-lulu, 2,090; Panama, 3,230; Yokohama,4,764; Hiogo, 5,104; Auckland, 5,907;Shanghae, 5,964; Hong Kong, 6,384; Sid-ney, Australia, 7,183; Melbourne, 7,700miles. The Plaza, Washington, Union, Co-lumbia, LoBOS, Hamilton, and AlamoSquares, and Yerba Buena, Beuna Vista,and Golden Gate Parks, are all small, ex-cept the last, which contains 1,100 acres,but very little improved. The Oaklandand Alameda parks are largely patronizedby San Franciscans, who reach them byferry-boat. But what the city is deficientin parks, is made up by the WoodwardGardens, for an account of which seeAnnex No. 44. Ocean Steamships—for saili

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