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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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are generally easily prodnced, oftenlying in largest deposits near lines of her splen-did system of railways. They are easily workedas a rule, and dozens of mills and smeltersare in successful operation within a fewmiles of the most noted mines. Rich dis-coveries are constantly reported from themore remote districts. Some of these, inthe southern portion of the territory, con-sist of immense deposits of a high grade ofsilver ores. The Ontario mine, which has filled the pub-lic prints, is one of the richest mines on thecontinent, having paid some fifty successivemonthly dividends of f75,000 each in thepast four years, or a total of nearly $4,000,000.In fact, Utah alone has all the resources of anempire; and if it were only under a safe,stable and peaceful political local government,she would become one of the richest andbrightest stars in the coronet of the na-tion. It were well if certain pages in hereventful history could be forever obliter-ated. Utah Central Mailroad.—Ogden is the
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wmm ^m€iFi€ wQwmiBT. 131 northern terminus of this road. It is the pioneerline of Utah proper, though the Union Pacificand Central Pacific Roads were completed firstthrough the magnificent generosity of the peopleof the United States. Early in May, 1869, theiron rails which bound the Continent togetherwere joined near Promontory, some 50 mileswest of Ogden. One week after this was done,work on the Utah Central began. The companywas organized on the 8th of March previous,Brigham Young being president. A largequantity of material for building railroads wasleft on hand, when the Union Pacific wasfinished to Promontory, and this was purchasedby the Utah Central Company. BrighamYoung had entered into a contract for gradingthe former road, from the head of Echo Canonto Ogden, and successfully accomplished thework. If this had not been done, that roadwould have failed in its race acioss the Conti-nent, and the Central Pacific would have builtthe greatest part of the trans-continental lin

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