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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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telegraph station, 786..3miles from Omaha, with an elevation of 6,685feet. At this station, we first strike the well-known Bitter Ci-eek Valley, through which weshall pass to Green River. About four milesbelow this staticm, on the south side of the track,the old overland stage and emigrant road struckthe valley, as it came in from Bridgers Pass, andacross the Snake River Valley. The railroadreaches Bitter Creek through a draw or dryravine which unites with the valley proper, at thestation. The old stage-road struck the creekfarther south, and before it reaches the railroad.This was formerly quite a station, and the endof a passenger division. It has a small round-house, with ten stalls and turn-table, upon whichthe engines and snow-plows are turned. Betweenthis station and Rawlins, as has been observed,are very heavy grades, requiring two engines topull a train. These extra engines come withtrains as far as this station, and then assist east-ward bound trains back again, A large quan-
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SCENES ON GREEN KIVER.1.—Flaming Gorge. 2.—Browns Hole. 3.—Looking up the Valley of Green River. wmm ^^€im€ w&wmiBF. 97 tity of bridge timber is also kept here, readyfor any emergency. In the great wasiiout atthe foot of this valley, in the spring of 1875,large quantities were used. Bitter Creek isrightly named. Its waters are so stronglyimpregnated with alkali that they are almostuseless. Nevertheless, at the head of thiscreek, where it is fed by cold, clear springs,for more than ten miles from the station,trout have been caught, though they aresmall. The rugged scenery along this valleywill interest the traveler, as the views areconstantly changing. There are no machine-shops for repairs here, only the five-stallroundhouse. The creek has been dammedfor the purpose of supplying the water tank,though the water is not the best for boil-ers. The whole region of country, from apoint east, as far as Rock Creek to GreenRiver, is underlaid with coal. It frequently■crops out

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