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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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d, and lively with business forthe construction of the road, and for Nevada.It had a population of 7,000, and some dwellingserected at a cost of $5,000 ; large warehouses, andall the intensity of frontier life. After the re-moval of the terminus to Truckee, the desertedbuildings were either taken down and removedor went fast to decay, until their destruction washastened by a fire that left nothing for themorning sun to rise upon, but the freight housewith a platform 1,000 feet long, standing aloneamid the ashes and surrounding forests. From Cisco there is a beautiful view on thenorth, with Red Mountain in the distance.Just back of Red Mountain is the Old ManMountain, but hid from view until the train de-scends a few miles farthei-. To detect in this any sharp or remote outlineof the human profile, wiought in colossal propor-tion by the hand that moulded and chiseled theinfinite shapes of nature, is probably beyondthe keenness of any Yankee. Leaving Cisco, the railroad continues on the
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Tmm ^m€iFm TQwmmw. 241 north side of the divide, with the canons of themany streams that form the Yuba on the right,and a deep valley near by through hard por-phyry, passing Black Butte on the left, crossingButte Canon, around Hopkins Bluffs and Mil-lers Bluffs, eight and a half miles to Emigrant Gap,—lTd miles from San Fran-cisco, another day and night telegraph station, isalmost one vertical mile above San Francisco,the altitude being 5,221 feet. Just beforen^aching this station, the Yuba turns abruptlyto the north, and just west of the turning place,with an elevation barely perceptible to one rush-ing by. Bear River heads in a valley of thesame name, clothed in summer with a delightfulgreen. At Emigrant Gap the divide is crossedby means of a tunnel, and the old EmigrantRoad crossed the Gap here, and is crossed bythe railroad, just a few rods west of the tunnel.Here the old emigrants let their wagons downthe steep mountain side by ropes, with which aturn or two were taken around

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