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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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1,100bushels of charcoal, for which the proprietorgets 25 cents per bushel,—a business of about$50,000 per year is done. The Miller Mine has been estimated exceed-ingly rich, and is owned largely by New Yorkcapitalists, who work it steadily. It is said toyield, with lead, over fifty ounces of silver perton. The American Fork Railroad was builtoriginally to facilitate the carrying of ores,as well as the charcoal, but the grandeur ofthe scenery has given it a celebrity amongtourists, far beyond that of any railroad inUtah. At Deer Creek is a good hotel, The MountainGlen House, and a lovely picnic grove, pure springwater, and for those of good wind and lovers of ad-venture,—an opportunity for mountain climbing. The total length of the canon to this point, is12 miles, and the total length of the railroad, is16 miles,—cost about $400,000, and the mostsolidly built narrow gauge railroad in theUnited States. The total ascent in elevationfor the whole railroad, is nearly 5,000 feet, and
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wmm ^m^nwm wowmmr. 147 the average grade of the railroad is 200 feet.The maximum grade is 296 feet. This is thesteepest railroad grade in the United States. Tourists who have enjoyed so fine and glori-ous a ride up the canon hither, will j^erliapsexpect that the return will be tame. Theywill be most pleasantly surprised and disap-pointed, for it is the grandest of all railroadscenes they will eiier witness. Detaching the locomotive from the train, theconductor stands at the little brake, and with-out a signal or help, the little cars of the trainquietly start on their downward journey alone.Gliding down with increasing speed, roundingthe curves with grand and. swinging motion,the breeze fanning your face, and the beautifulpure mountain air stimulating your spirits tothe highest limits of exhilaration, your feelingsand l)ody are in an intense glow of delight, asthe rock scenes, crags and mountain heightscome back again in all their sublimity, andyour little car, securely held, glides s

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