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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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nerocks, just even with the surface of the ground.If you dare to thrust your hand in it, you willfind it boiling hot, apparently with a temperatureof over 200°. The finger can not be retained inthe water longer than a very few seconds; yet thesensation, as it is withdrawn, is so soft and cool-ing, one would like to try it again and again, andstrange Co say, rarely vvitu any danger ol scald-ing. If meat is dropped into this boiling water. agriculture and vegetation for hundreds of yardswithin the vicinity. This lake is also supposedto be supplied, to some extent, by other hotsprings beneath the surface. Strange as it mayseem, the hot water does not prevent the ex-istence of some kinds of excellent fish, amongwhich have been seen some very fine large trout.Analysis of Hot Sulphur Spring: Chloride of Sodium, 0.8052 Magnesium, 0.0288 Calcium, 0.1096 Sulphate of Lime. 0.0806 Carbonate of Lime, 0.0180 Silica, 0.0180 1.0602Specific gravity, 1.1454. The Museinn—is located on the south side
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IXTKltloU OF OFFICE OF THE MORMON PRESIDENT. it is soon cooked, (though we cannot guaranteea pleasant taste) and eggs will be boiled, readyfor the table, in three minutes. Often a densevolume of steam rises from the spring, thoughnot always. A very large volume of water issuesforth from the little hole in the rock—scarcelylarger than the top of a barrel—about four feetwide and six to twenty inches deep. Immedi-ately near the rock is a little pool, in which thewater, still hot, deposits a peculiar greenish coloron the sides, and coats the long, wavy grass withits sulphurous sediment. Flowing beneath therailroad track and beyond in the meadows, itforms a beautiful little lake, called Hot SpringLake, which, constantly filling up, is steadily in-creasing its area, and, practice tly, destroying all of South Temple street, and directly oppositethe Tabernacle. Professor Barfoot is in charge,and he will show you specimen ores from themines, precious stones from the desert, pottery-ware an

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