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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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he Bellville Min-ing District, 140 miles distant. In this dis-trict the celebrated Northern Bell Silver Mine islocated, also the General Thomas and others lessprominent. Silver Peak Mining District is 110miles distant. These districts, and others notnamed here, are all south of Wads worth. RhodesSalt Marsh, an immense salt deposit, is about130 miles distant. There is salt enough in thisdeposit to preserve the world, if reports as to itsextent, etc., prove true. there are three bodies of water which travelerswill more fully understand by an explanation.Humboldt Lake proper, into which flows theHumboldt River, we pass at Browns Station.A little south-west of this lake is the Humboldtand Carson Sink — the waters from the lakeseeping through a channel or slough into thesink. The dam at the foot of the lake is acrossthis outlet or slough. The waters from Car-son Lake flowing nearly east, find their wayinto this sink through a similar outlet. Thusthe waters of the two rivers, the Humboldt
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PYRAMID LAKE. From Wadsworth to Carson Lake, south, thedistance is about 40 miles. This lake is namedfrom the river of the same name, which flowsinto, or rather through it. Directly south ofCarson Lake is Walker Lake into which flowsAValker River. The lake last named has novisible outlet, and is one of the sinks of the greatbasin east of the Sierras. South of the railroad, and Carson, each flowing through a small lake,finally meet in the same sink. To this sinkthere is no visible outlet, and the vast amountof water which is poured into this basin throughthese two rivers is undoubtedly taken up on itsway, or after its arrival into this common sink,by evaporation. The Humboldt River, though it has a length 202 TME ^ACIFia T&W&ISW. of 500 miles, and has several tributaries con-stantly flowing into it, yet does not increase involume, throughout its length, as do most rivers.After passing Winnemucca it diminishes to asmall stream, finally spreads into a marsh and sinks out of sight

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