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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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f the roundhouse and necessaryrepair shops, for the division, is a great help tothe town, as they give employment to quite anumber of skilled mechanics. It is also the lo-cation of the government land ofiice for theGrand Island land district. It has two weeklynewspapers, the Times and Irnlepenrlent, both ofwhich are well conducted. The new eating-house, elsewhere spoken of, is the finest on theroad, though less expensive than many. It costabout $15,000. This is a breakfast and supperstation, and the company has fuinished ampleaccommodations for the patrons of this house. After leaving Grand Island, a magnificentstretch of prairie country opens to view. Thesame may be said of the entire valley, but lh^view in other places is more limited by bluffsand hills than here. After passing Silver Creek,there is a section of the road, more than fortymiles, in a straight line, but the extent of prairiebrought into vision there is not as large as here.Up to this point, you have doubtless witnessed
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1.—Gen. Custer. 2. EMINENT AMERICAN KXPLOREllS AND ARTISTS.-Gen. Fremont. .3.—Lieut. Wheeler. 4.—Prof. F. V. Hayden. 5.—Albert HiPiTHtadt.6.—Maj. .r. \V. Powell. 7.—Thomas Moran. many groves of cotton-wood around the numer-ous dwellings you have passed, but they begin todiminish now—nearly the lasL of them beingseen at Alda^—the next station, some eight mileswest of Grand Island, 161.5 miles from Omaha,at an elevation of 1,907 feet. There are one ortwo stores, a school-house, and several dwellings.It is two miles east of Wood River, which isspanned by the first iron bridge on the line. Allregular passenger trains stop at this station andreceive and deliver mails. In other parts of thecountry, Wood River would be called a rivulet orsmall brook, but such streams are frequently dig-nified with the name of rivers in the West. Itforms a junction with the North Channel of thePlatte River, just south of Grand Island. Its riseis in the bluffs across the divide, north of PlumCr

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