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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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ound it. Fromthe statements made iu these pages it will beseen that the immense coal measures of theUnion Pacific Railway supply nearly the entirenorthern half of the great trans-Missouri regionwith fuel. The bonanza silver mines ofNevada, the gold fields of California, the goldand silver belts of Colorado, and the greatwheat lands and pastures of Wyoming andNebraska all in the end pay imi^ortant tributeto these never-ending deposits of lignites. A Moimtahi of SulpJmi.—Forty milessoutheast of Evanston is a perfect mountain ofsulphur. The immense dei:)osit carries from 50to 90 ijer cent, of pure sulphur. A United Statespatent has been secured on the property by acompany of Avestern gentlemen. Flowing oilsprings have also been discovered ten miles eastof Evanston, and are in process of utilization.The surface oil is found to be equal to the best ofheavy lubricating oils for engines or locomotives. Wahsatch—A telegraph station on the dividebetween Bear River Valley and Echo Canon. It
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ROCKS NEAK ECHO CITY.1.—Bromleys Cathedral. 2.—Castle Kock. 3.—The Great Eastern. 4.—Hanging Rock. wmm wm€iFi€ w@w§^iw. 113 is 968 miles from Omaha, and reported to be6,879 feet above the level of the sea. The roadhere crosses a low pass in the Wahsatch Rangeof Mountains. As you ascend the beautiful val-ley leading to this station, the grim peaks of theUintahs tower up in the distance on your left,while the adjoining hills shut out the higher ele-vations of the Wahsatch Range, on the north.Leaving Evanston, the road turns abruptly tothe left, and tlie town and valley are soon lost tosight. Foui miles out, on the left side of thetrack, the traveler will notice a sign put up on apost—the east side of which reads, Wyoming.the west side, Utah. Wahsatch was formerlya terminus of a sub-division of the road, andcontained the regular dining-hall of the company,with roundhouse, machine and repair shops, etc.The water in the tank is supplied from a mount-ain spring near by. and a

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