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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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Cope, the route ends.There is a weekly mail, stage and express lineto the Island Mountain District, 75 miles duenorth. This is a placer gold field, discoveredin 1873, and it is estimated that $100,000 in gold-dust, were taken out in 1875. Three miles northof the Island Mountain District, is the WyomingDistrict, where valuable silver mines are said tohave been discovered. The chief lode is knownas the Mardis, which is owned by a Chicagocompany. A stamp mill is now being erectedthere. The mineral belt before alluded to, be-gins at the north end of the Goose Creek Range,and runs south-west about 160 miles. It isabout 60 miles wide. Tuscarora is also some-what noted as a placer field, while Aurora, anew district west of Cornucopia, is said to bevery promising. It is 10 miles from the lastnamed place to Am-ora. In the vicinity of the mining districts spokenof, there are rich agricultuial valleys where allkinds of grain, but corn, are extensively raised. wmm <^m€iFi€ w&wMi^w. 179
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and vegetables and melons grow to a great sizeand excellence. There are, also, vast stockranges—all of which are tributary to Elko. South from Elko there is a semi-weekly stage,mail and express route to Bullion City, the townof the Railroad Mining District. This town hasabout 150 people, and is distant 25 miles fromElko. Jhe ores of this district are smeltingores, and the town has two large furnaces forthe reduction of this ore. The principal mines are owned bj the Empire Company of NewYork. There is also a weekly stage line into theSouth Fork and Huntington Valleys—two richagricultural valleys, which are thickly settledwith farmers and stockmen. In addition to thetwo valleys last named, there are the Star,Pleasant and )\Iound Valleys, all rich agriculturaldistricts, and all tributary to Elko. Elko hasone daily and two weekly papers which aie- wellsupported. The Post is a weekly. Republicanin politics, and the Independent, daily and weekly,is Democratic in politics—though party

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