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Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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est from theirinvestments. The opening of noithern Wyomingto settlement, the development of the vast mineralresources of the territory, and the continued pros-perity of her stock interests, will give to the i\Iagic City of the Plains the trade, growthand influence which her location demands. Health.—As a resort for health-seekers, Chey-enne has superior advantages. It is about a thou-sand feet higher than Denver, with an atmospherenot only rarefied but dry. It has good hotels andlivery accommodations. Ponies are cheap, and in-valids can purchase them and ride over the hillsand dales at pleasure. There is also an abiuidanceof game in the vicinity—antelope, rabbits, deer,etc. A bear weighing over 1,500 pounds, waskilled near here in 1875. It is the largest onewe ever saw. Its skin has been jireserved, andthe bear has been mounted in good shape. Fre-quent excursions can also be taken in the warmsummer weather to Fort Laramie, Cheyenne Pass,and other places which will expand the lungs
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SCENES IN THE BLACK HILLS.I.—Golden Park. 2.—Genevieve Park. 3.—Custer Park. 4.—Limestone Peak. 5.—Harneys Park. and invigorate the body. The results of severalyears observations at the United States SignalStation here, show that the temperature is moreeven, taking the years together, than in manyplaces East or on the Facittc coast. The hottestdays do not equal those which frequently occurin the East, and in the summer months thenights are deliciously cool, assuring the invalidgood sleep under plenty of blankets. We predicta great rush of invalids and health-seekers tothis place and vicinity, in the near future. Al-though Cheyenne is a good place to sleep, yetthe people are wide-awake and owly nights. Rapiditif of Business at Cheyenne.—On the 22d of July, 1867, the first lots wereoffered for sale by the Union Pacific RailroadCompany at Cheyenne—66 by 132 feet for ;150.Thirty days aftsr, these lots sold for ^1,000 each,and in two to three months thereafter, the samelots w

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