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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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Mouutaius. L <( f (I m i ePea k.—Jhis isthe highest peakof tlie Black Hillsliange in Wyom-ing and Colorado,north of LongsPeak, and is about10,000 feet high.The Hayden ex-ploring party,■who were en-camped at itsbase, describe wit-nessing a sunsetscene of rarebeauty. The sunpassed down di-rectly behind thesummit of Lara-mie Peak. Thewhole range ofmountains wasgilded with agolden ligiit. andthe haziness of theatmosphere gaveto the vvhole scenea deeper beauty.The valleys at thebase of the Cotton-wood and LaramieRivers are full ofpleasant littlestreams andgrassy plains.Sometimes thesevalleys expandout into beautifuloval park-likeareas, which arefavorite resorts ofwild game, andwould be exceedingly desirable for settlements.Emigrants would find here beautiful scenery,pure air and water, and a mild and extremelyhealthy climate. Cereals and roots could be easilyraised, and stock-raising could be made a sourceof wealth to them and the whole community. The Wiudniills of the Union facific
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HUNTING IN THE KOOKY MOUNTAINS. Jtailway. —The traveler notices with interestthe ever frequent windmills which appear atevery station, and are such prominent objectsover the broad prairies. They are used for sup-plying the locomotives and station houses withwater. Probably no finer specimens exist in the United States thanare found on thelines of this road.In these tanksis a large hollowglobe floating inthe water. Theseglobes are so con-nected with lev-ers that when thewater has reacheda certain height,the slats or fansare thrown in linewith the wind, andthe machine stops.As the water isdrawn off for sup-plying the locomo-tives, the ball falls,and the machineis again put in mo-tion. They arethus self-regula-ting and self-act-ing. The water isthrown up by aforcing pump. Acurious fact maybe here mention-ed. These tanks,when closely cov-ered, have thus farproved that thereis enough caloricin the water toprevent it fromfreezing. Wind River31 o II nt(t i ns.—These mountains,seen on the

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