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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
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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u- (iaiiffe Jtail-roful.—From Colf.tx htarLs a hmall narr- wgauge railroatexciting character. The tourist ^hould h()eudone day over it. (iraHH VaUey—is 10.74 miles distant, has a (wpulation of T.fKKl. It is the c.i;---f > ■• » gold (juartz mining region of Ue ^the largest TrotesUut Church (.^lcopal) in the Sierra Mountain.H. ItCongregational Church, Roman Catbcopal and Christian or CampUdlito. I ntu f-cently, it had two bank.s but at pre»«-iit ha- i.oi..-.It is thecent«T of large lumU-r, fruit and m:ii-ing interests, has a daily pa;>«T. Hw • Vuiou,and one we«-kly. the •* FotktU Ttdiugt. This city .xs well a« Nevada, is n*ached fromColfax by the nai 1two trains conn*-* Central Pacific, i ot- i.u. i.. Vii.»-- ....,, .^f7.()7, and to Nevatia City ^2:1\ the maximumallowe.l bv the law uf tl- ^f •■ .Vrr«*?n—has a j- f K,^*\ and is the cv.untv-seat i>f Ne\ . ;.. The i-i>plo
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Pv^>^^^ CAPE HORN.1.—View looking down the American River. 2.—View if Cape Horn and American River Canon, looking East. 3.—Point of Cape Horn. Tsm f^^cxFicy roriixsr. 241 of Truckee are compelled to attend court in thiscity- It is ill the satne milling rejpori a.s GrassVallMV, and was lor many yiars tin; larpest townin tilt! iiiiniii)^ regions. From an an-a of sixmil--s. not l«.s.s than ■■?7.j,()0(),iodnci;d annually. iSlightsnows fall in the winter. The route of the nar-row gauge railroad lies through the valley of theBear Kiver, over which one looks in descendingthe Sierras. At the crossing of Bear lliver,where it joins the Elkhorn, there is some finescenery, and although in the distance of Il \-lmiles there are lU stoi)ping places, there are notowns or villages except at the termini and atGrass Valley. San Juan North, Comptonville,and Downieville, Sierravdie, Lake City, Bloom-field, Moores Flat and Eureka South,

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