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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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heir origin or pur-pose. Gold Hill follows the ravine of the same name,and the street is both steep and crooked. It hasa population of 6,000 and is, in all respects, likeVirginia City. The two are built np so as to bewithout marked separation. Gold Hill has avigorous daily paper, the Gold Hill News aCatholic, a ISlethodist, and an K)piscopal Church. a great credit to the city and the land of sil-ver. Its narrow streets show with wliat diffi-culty sites are obtained for buildings, whetheranchored to the rocks or perched in mid air, and,while in the city but little of it is visible at atime, the dwellings are mostly low, and, there-fore, unstable roofs do less damage when theWashoe zephyrs blow. It appears small, but isthe most densely packed of all American cities.One-third its people are underground, wherelighted candles glimmer faintly in subterraneanpassages, by day and by night. Bediooms dodouble duty for hundreds or thousands, whosework never ceases. Miners are shifted every eight
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STREET SCENE IN VI Virginia City and Gold Hill are connected by aline of omnibusses, making four trips every hourduring the day, while the frequent trains of therailroad carry also many passengers. l^y railthe distance to Virginia City is two miles, inwhich several tunnels are passed through. Virginia City—isone of the most interestingtowns on the coast. One expects streets of goldand silver, and finds dust or mud. On October26, 1875, it was almost wholly destroyed by fire,but the burnt district has ^been rebuilt morehandsotnely than ever. Its population nowexceeds 20.000. A first-class hotel, The Jn-ternational, has been erected, in all respects 14 RGINIA CITV, NEVADA. hours, and the men of two shifts may occupy thesame couch. On many levels, down 2,000 feet, are thousandsof busy, bustling, narrow streets, over which isthe city proper. Tide-water is 6,205 feet belowthe banks, and perhaps it is best that it is nonearer, for now pumps are constructed to raisethe water to the surface

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