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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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he Sum-mit CountyRailroad, and isowned by someof the wealthyMormons i nSalt Lake City.Four miles far-ther up theWeber, and youcome to Hoyts-ville, anotherMormon village.It is a farmingsettlement. Thetown has agrist-mill. Fourmiles still far-ther is locatedthe town of ■->-^ AA^anship, nam-_^- f>^ ^^^ after an old ^ Ute chief. Ithas about 400inhabitants,with a hotel,stores, grist-mill, saw-mill, etc. It is located atthe junction of Silver Creek with the Weber.Still going up the Weber, in about three milesthere is another Mormon settlement called ThreeMile. It has a co-op store, bishops resi-dence, and a tithing office. I*eofi.—Leaving Three Mile, and pursuingthe course still up one of the most beautiful val-lej^s in the country, the tourist will reach Peoa,a nice little farming town, in five miles travel.Evidences of thrift and of the successful cultiva-tion of the soil, are visible all along the val-ley, but it is a wonderful matter to eastern WMM ^^^iFi^ F&WMl&r. 119
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SCENE AT MOUTll OF ECHO CANON. men wlio know notliinfj of the characteris-tics of the soil, and see nothing but sagebrush and greasewood growing thereon, howcrops can be raised amidst such sterility.Irrigation lias done it all. The labor to accom-plish it has been immense, but thirty-five toforty bushels of spring wheat to the acre attestthe result. The soil has been proved to be veryprolific. Kanitnas Oitii.—Next on this mountainjourney comes Kammas City, eight milesbeyond Peoa, on Kammas Prairie. This isan elevated plateau about four miles by ten,and affords some very fine grazing landsand meadows. It is nearly all occupied bystockmen. Here the Weber makes a grand de-tour; coming from the mountains in the east, ithere turns almost a square corner toward the 120 WME ^m€lFi€ WQWrniBW, to Parleys Park,where a week orin the beauty of north, and then pursues its way through valleysand gorges, through hills and mountains to aquiet rest iu the waters of the Great ISalt Lake.Above thi

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