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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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ground. We believe hefenced around it, lest a cow should get inside ofit and eat out the heart. The city has a paid Fire Department, andfive newspapers—the Daily and Weekly Record-Union, iha Dally and Weekly Bee, The SacramentoValley Agriculturalist (weekly), Sacramento Jour-nal (German tri-weekly), and The Weekly Res-cue, the organ of the I. O. G. T.j Sacramento is intimately connected with allparts of the State and is advantageously situatedfor manufactures and for wholesale trade. Mer-chants in Nevada find it a day or two nearerthan San Francisco. The river affords cheaptransportation to Northern California, and to andfrom San Francisco. The California Pacific andNorthern Railway extend their arms to the westside of the Sacramento Valley and even to Napaand Lake Counties, and the Oregon Di\asion ofthe California Pacific controls the trade toSouthern Oregon. The Sacramento Valley Rail-road, runs to Folsom, controling trade as far asPlacerville. By the Western Pacific, connection.
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REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF CALIFORNIA. 1—Senator Sargent. 2.—R. B. Woodward. 3.—Senator Sharon, (Nevada.) 4.—D. O. Mills.5.—James C. Flood. 6.—W. 0. Ralston. 7.—M. S. Latham. 8.—Gov. Irwin. WMM ^m€iwi€ wmvmiBw^ 263 is made at Lathrop with the San Joaquin Valleyand the Southern Pacific. Sacramento has three daily trains to San Fran-cisco. (1) The Overland leaving at 7:20 a. m.(2) The Alta Passenger and Oregon train leavingat ) 1:30 via Stockton and the Oregon and Sacra-mento at 3:30 p. m. The last runs ma the Cali-fornia Pacific, and tourists who desire to spendthe day in Sacramento will find it best to takethis 3:30 train. Leaving Sacramento via the HALIFOIINIA FACIFIC RAILROAD, and crossing he Sacramento River on a substan-tial drawbridge, we are in the village of Wash-iigton—an unfortunate town. It is backed bytule (swamp) lands, and was long harassed bytolls exacted to cross the river. But its worstenemy is the flood. The levees that protectSacramento hurl the spri

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