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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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g effects.And at each descent from the upland into eachlittle valley, the view is one of beauty and pleas-ure. The railroad as it turns East from ColoradoJunction, reveals at the right, the busy town ofGolden; a mile distant, over it, towers a peak of1,000 feet high and down the little valley ofClear Creek, the route passes till your teiminusat Denver. This route of reaching Denver from the Eastmust be specially advantageous to Tourists. Ihe Cheyenne Division, Union PacificRaihvay, also runs direct from Cheyenne,southward, to Denver, and trains connect withthe mid-day trains of the Union Pacific Railway.The distance, 106 miles, is mainly over a vastlevel plain, covered only wdth the short graybuffalo grass, but parallel with the main rangeof the Rocky Mountains, and twenty to thirtymiles from their eastern base. Greeley—Named in honor of Horace Gree-ley, and settled in May, 1870. The colonypossesses about 100,000 acres of fine alluvial soilin the valley of the Cache la Poudre River.
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TME P^aiFIG wowmiBw. 75 Irrigating ditches have been constructed, andthere is an abundance of water for all agricul-tural purposes. The town for several years hasincreased with steady rapidity, and the popula-tion is slightly over 3,500. At this place arelocated some of the finest grist-mills of theentiie West. The place has achieved consid-erable reputation as a temjierance town. Denver is the capital of the State. Thishas become a large railroad point. From itdiverge the Kansas Division Union PacificRailway, 636 miles eastward to Kansas City, theDenver and Kio Grande Kailroad, Narrowxauge, southward, to Canon City, Pueblo,Leadville, Trinidad and San Juan; the Denverand South Park Division Union Pacific Railwayto South Park, Leadville, and the Gunnisoncountry; also the various branches of the Colo-rado Divasion Union Pacific Railway to George-town, Idaho Springs, Central City, and themines of the mountains. In course of con-struction are: the Denver and New Orleans Pail-way, running

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