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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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ve thetow^i where therailroad ends.This road iscalled the Sum-mit CountyRailroad, and isowned by someof the wealthyM o r m o n s inSalt Lake City.Four miles far-ther up theAVeber, and youcome to Hoyts-ville, anotherMormon village.It is a farmingsettlement. Thetown has agrist-mill. Fourmiles still far-ther is locatedthe town ofA\^anship, nam-ed after an oldUte chief. Ithas about 400inhabitants,with a hotel,stores, grist-mill, saw-mill, etc. It is located atthe junction of Silver Creek with the Weber.Still going up the Weber, in about three milesthere is another ^Mormon settlement called ThreeMile. It has a co-op store, bishops resi-dence, and a tithing office. JVof/.—Leaving Three Mile, and pursuingthe course still up one of the most beautiful val-leys in the country, the tourist will reach Peoa,a nice little farming town, in five miles travel.Evidences of thrift and of the successful cultiva-tion of the soil, are visible all along the val-ley, but it is a wonderful matter to eastern
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SCENE AT MOUTH OF ECHO CANON. men who know nothing of the characteris-tics of the soil, and see nothing but sagebrush and greasewood growing thereon, howcrops can be raised amidst such sterility.Irrigation has done it all. The labor to accom-plish it has been immense, but thirty-five toforty bushels of spring wheat to the acre attestthe result. The soil has been proved to be veryprolific. Kammas C#i/.—Next on this mountainjourney comes Kammas City, eight milesbeyond Peoa, on Kammas Prairie. This isan elevated plateau about four miles by ten,and affords some very fine grazing landsand meadows. It is nearly all occupied bystockmen. Here the Weber makes a grand de-tour; coming from the mountains in the east, ithere turns almost a square corner toward the 122 north, and then pursues its way through valleysand gorges, through Jiills and mountains to aquiet rest in tl.ie waters of the Great ISalt Lake.Above this pran-ie the river cuts its way througha wild rocky canon, lashing its sides w

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