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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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Yosemite train. A huge grizzly, caught when a cub in theLivermore range of hills, and caged near theplatform, is interesting as a harmless specimenof nature. THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. (For full description of which sec page 310. San Joaquin Valley.—This great valleyhas the Sierra Nevada on the east, and the CoastRange on the west, is about 250 miles long, andfrom 20 to 150 miles wide. The area is 25,000square miles. The greater portion of the landis a sandy loam, easily tilled. There are but afew trees, but the farmers have begun to plantextensively. Frequent patches of the black,tenacious, alluvial soil, called ad^be, are found,in which the sun cracks, visible during sumnier,faintly suggest earthquakes. A hundred milesof wheat fields may be seen in the valley, brokenonly by roads and fences. This immense valley, with a surrounding beltof timber for lumber and fuel, coal, iron and theprecious metals bordering it, adapted for grow-ing the grains and fruits of two zones, is des-
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wmm ^si€iFm T-mwrnrnw. 339 tilled to have a teeming population and fabulouswealth. Irrigation will sui)ply the lack of sum-mer rains when needed. The summer touristwill be struck with the absence of all sod, andlong: for the refreshing sight of it once more, jAs it exists in the Eastern States, it is unknownill California, except wliere carefully nurtured.The beautiful mantle of green that covers theearth, in winter and spring, is here turned toiiay without any artificial process. The juicesof the grass are stored, the seeds ripened, andthe roots die, and seeds sprout again. San .lonqnin Brhhfe,—79 miles from SanFrancisco, is a station at the railroad crossing ofthe San Joaquin River. The channel is on thewest side, and in high water the country is over-flowed for miles up and down the river, reachingback from it almost to Bantas, the next station.Hantns,—75 miles from San Francisco, and30 feet above tide-water, is named for an oldfamily resident here. Stages leave at 10.50 a.M.

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