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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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e are landed largequantities of coal from the Liverpool ves-sels that come here to load with grain. Thecoal is brought for ballast, more than forprofit. Rattlesnake Island is in front of the har-bor—sand principally San Pedro Pointis two miles south, and Point Fermin,around that point to the west, reached bywagon-road around the beach or over thebluffs, six miles distant. DeadmansIsland is a small,isolated rocky peak, wherecommences the breakwater improvementbelow Point Pedro. Fermin Point is on the most prominentheadland on the west, surmounted with alight of the first order, (which is kept bytwo ladies.) Near this point, in stone, isthe subject of our illustration, below,called San Pedros Wife or the WomanOF THE Period. The distance from Wilmington bysteamer to San Francisco is 387 miles; toSan Diego, 95 miles; to Santa CatalinaIsland, 20 miles. This Island is ow^ned bythe Lick estate, is 35 miles long and tenwide, on which are some gold mines, andgreat numbers of sheep and goats.
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SAN Pedros wife or, the woman of the period. 240 CROFUTT S KEW OVERLAND TOURIST The Island San Clemente is 30 milesfurther, a lon^, narrow strip of land, onwhich there is no water, where rangethousands of sheep and goats, which seemto thrive better than on Santa CatalinaIsland, where w^ater is abundant. Returning again to Los Angeles, westart over the ^^an Diego Division. Leaving Los Angeles, the course is thesame as over the Wilmington route toFlorence, six miles south, where our routeturns to the left. Leaving Florence, we cross the LosAngeles River, along which are some broad,rich bottom lands, passing large groves ofeucalyptus trees, and 5.5 further come to Downey—This is a thrifty town ofagriculturalists, about 500 in number, withsome good buildings. The Central Hotelis the principal hotel. The country is flat,and vineyards and orange orchards are tobe seen at different places, over whichthe waters of San Gabriel River are con-ducted in numerous canals and ditches Leaving the s

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