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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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hides,etc., one million six hundred and ten thousandone hundred and ten pounds. The apparentloss is due to the fact that much of the freightis now sent via the Utah and Northern Rail-road. Seven miles north of the town, at thefoot of the mountains, are springs of clear,fresh water, from which water is conveyed forthe use of the railroad and rahabitants. Thereis a good deal of stock grazed in the vicinityof this station, which feed on sage brush iathe winter and such grass as they get, but findgood grazing in the summer. The surplus cattleare shipped to the markets on the Pacific Coast. In this region tourists will find much to pleasethem. Placid valleys basking in the sunshine,with gigantic snow-clad mountains towering inthe background; dashing rivers, with water-falls 200 feet high—among these the greatShoshone, of Snake River, called the WesternNiagara ; lakes amid the mountain-tops, withfish disporting in their depths, with waterfowlcovering their surfaces; with forests inhabited
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WME ^■m€iFi€ T&wmmT. 187 lay the elk, deer, mountain sheep, goat andbear—are all here. Tourists will also bear in mind, that this isthe station nearest to the great Shoshone Falls.These falls are 110 miles from Kelton. Passen-gers from the east will arrive at about 10 oclockp. M., and stay all night. Passengers from thewest will arrive at about two oclock a. m. Thenext morning they will take the stagerun by the North-western Stage Company, 100miles to Rock Creek Station, which are madeover good roads in twelve hours. Here you willstay over night, and take a team the next morn-ing for the falls; distance ten miles over a lavaplain, with stinted sage brush. No sign of thegreat falls is seen, until you reach a point one milefrom them, when they suddenly burst upon theeye with a grandeur and magnificence trulybewildering. Travelers to the main falls can reach them onfoot very easily from the upper ridge. It willabundantly repay visitors to go to the edge ofthe river, and conte

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