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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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ed in October, 1874, andis one of the best paying roads for the invest-ment in all the country. The cars are exceed-ingly neat and comfortable, and the averagetime nearly twenty-five miles an hour. Thecourse is west, across the Humboldt Eiver,and then south up Pine Valley, a region ofsage brush, to Bullion—8 miles from Palisade. Next isEvans, simjaly a side track, with the CortezMountains on the west or right, and the Dia-mond Range opposite. Agriculture is limited,but cattle and sheep find extensive rangesamong the hills. Willards is 15 miles from Palisade, andHay Ranch 19 miles. Here are 2,500 acres ofmeadow land owned by the railroad company.About 1,000 tons of hay are cut and stored an-nually. From the terminus of the road atEureka, the company send hay by teams oftheir own to southeastern Nevada—as far asPioche. They employ from 300 to 400 mulesfor freighting purposes, and their ranch showsunmistakable signs of profit to the road. Box Springs—28 miles—is a signal station.
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SCENES IN THE HUMBOLDT DESERT. 1.—The Sink oC the Humboldt. 2.—Mountain Scene near Deetb. 3.—Group of Piute Indians. 4.—Humboldt River. 5.—Great American Desert, East of Elko. 6.—Wadsworth. wmm Fm€iFia wqwmbt. 199 Undoubtedly in the early history of the redmen were to be found many examples of noblemanhood in wild-life, Imt, alas! all the romance,tlie nobility, and the qualities to be admired inthis race, have curiously disappeared with thecoming of the white man; and here viewing thedegraded condition of the remnant of a oncepowerful people, the traveler may better appre-ciate the vivid pictiire of their past and comingcondition drawn by Longfellow:— How canst thou walk in these streets, who hast had the green turf of the prairies ?How canst thou breathe in this air, who hast breathed the sweet air of the mountains ?Ah! tis vain that with lordly looks of disdain thou dost challengeLooks of dislike in return, and question these walls and these pavements.Claiming the so

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