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Identifier: pacifictourist1879will (find matches)
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
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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afthas been sunk from the ground level, and an-other vein of coal stnick ten feet below the sur-face. We are minute in giving this descriptionof this coal mine, because it is claimed that thecoal it furnishes will coke, that it will give 50per cent, coke, aixl coke is the great demand ofthe smelting furnaces in the mining regions ofthis part of the Continent. It is claimed thatthe tests which have been applied to this coal,establish conclusively its coking qualities andovens for coking puqxises have Wen put in.The work of the present year will, satisfactorilydetermine the (piestion whether coking coal canb*^ found in the Kocky .Mountains. The historyof rich mineral-producing regions is that themetals are usually (because cheaper) brought to the fuel instead of car^^•ing the fuel to the metal.Hence if these coal mines are proved to producegoo<l coke, a town of smelters must spring upnear by. Udhsntrfi,—a telegraph Rtation. on the dividebetween Hear Kiver Valley and Echo Canon. It
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ROCKS NEAR ECHO CITY.1.—Bromleys Cathedral. 2.—Castle Rock. 3.—The Great Eastern. 4.—Hanging Eock. TRE ^siClFlC TQUBXSr. is 968 miles from Omaha, and report*>d to be6,879 feet above the level of the sea. The roadhere crosses a low pass in th(! Wahsatcli Kaiiijeof Moiititaiiis. As you asceiul the b<;autifiil \ al-ley JtailiiiL,to this station, the j,niiii peaks of theIiiitiilis tower iiji in the distance on your lett,while the adjoiuini; liills shut out the hit,iier ele-vations of the Wahsatch ilani,e, on the north.Leavinjf Kvauston, the road turns abruptly to the left, an<l tii town aiul valley are soon lost tosii^ht. Kour miles out, on the left side of thetrack, the traveler will notice a si;,MJ )iut up on apost—the east sifle of which reads, Wyoming,the west side, Utah. Wahsatch wius formerlya terminus of a sulxlivision of the road, andcontained the regular dining-hall of the company,•with roundhouse, machim; and repair shojin, etc.The water in the tank is suppli

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