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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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sferred over the bridge,and there is ample room for extension. Sleejn^tg-Car Expenses.—The tariff totravelers is as follows, with all companies, andall in greenbacks : One bertli. New York to Chicago, one and one-half days, by any route, $5 00 One berth, New York to Cincinnati, one and one-half days, by Pennsylvania Railroad, 4 00 One berth. New York to Cincinnati, one and one-half days, by other routes, 5 00 One berth. New York to St. Louis, two days, by any route, 6 00 One berth, Chicago or St. Louis to Omaha, by any route, 3 00 One berth, Omaha to Ogden. by Pacific Railroad, 8 00 One bertli, Ogden to San Francisco, by Central Pacific Railroad, 6 00 MEALS. All meals at all railroad dining-stations east of Omaha, $0 75 Except dinners on Erie and New York Central, 1 00 All meals on Union Paciti<: Railroad, 1 00 All meals on Central Pacitic Railroad, first day, currency, 1 00 All meals on Central Pacific Railroad, at Colfax, coin, 75 All meals on Central Pacific Railroad, Lathrop,
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SCtNKJs IN OiMAHA. l.-General View of Onialia ami the Platte Valley. 2.—rost-Offlce. 3.—High School Building, 4.- Grand Central Hotel. 5.—Missouri Kiver Bridge. Wmm ^^€£F£€ TQW^iBW. 15 OMAHA, Omaha occupies an exceedingly beautiful sit-uation, bold and commanding. Approachingthis city from the east, the broad valley ofthe Missouri river first comes into view. Then,as you near Council Bluffs, the great ironbridge which spans the river is plainly visible.Behind it, looking to the west, is Omaha,covering a part of the low bottom lands, thehigher table lands, and the bluffs or . hillsbeyond. On the cover of a book recently writ-ten by an English gentleman, on the advanta-ges, etc., of Nebraska, there is a pictuxe, in gilt,of the Union Pacific bridge. On the top of thispicture the following expressive legend isinscribed: To the Plains; To the Mountains;to the Pacific. This legend points the way,and means all it says. Omaha is the grand gateway through whichthe western tide of t

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