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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the Far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the Territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado Mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Shearer, Frederick E Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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he immediate vicinity. TheBlack Hills excitement, in regard to the discoveryof gold, has had some effect upon the town, anda railroad off to the north-west is talked. Itis the home of some of the leading stock-men ofthis section of country. Near this city, in 1875^Col. E. D. Webster and Mrs. A, ^N. Randall,wife of the late ex-postmaster-general Randall,formed a copartnership to engage in the dairyingbusiness, and erected a cheese factory. During-the year they manufactured about 30 tons ofcheese, which brought them a fair return. Col-onel Webster claims that the experiment hasdemonstrated that the business can be carriedon with profit, and he believes it will eventuallybecome the leading feature of this part of thecountry. He further says that the only draw-back at present is the scarcity and unreliabilityof help, it being difficult to obtain a sufficientnumber of milkers at a reasonable price tomilk a large number of cows. In 1876 the firmproposes to make cheese from the milk of froni
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wmm ^m€iFi€ f@w^mf. la one to two hundred cows, and the balance oftheir herd—some five hundred—will be devotedto stock-raising. This dairy establishment isone of the new enterprises of Xorth Platte, and,if successful in the future, will make it thepn iminent cheese-market of the West. The town has abundant attractions for invalidsneeding rest—there being antelope and deer inthe hills, fish in the streams, and an abundanceof pure air to invigorate the body. It has abright future and is destined to become one ofthe leading towns on the line of the railroad.Formerly it was an eating-station, but as nowrun, trains pass it in the night. The road wasfinished to this town in the fall of 1866, fiomwhich time until the following June it was thepoint where all overland freight was shipped.It was a rough town then, but this state ofaffairs did not last long, and the character ofthe place rapidly improved with the arrival ofpermanent set-tlers. Therewere a few In-dian scares, butno seri

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