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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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r. The general offices of the Union Pacific arelocated here. They are in an elegant buildingAvhich catches the eye of the tra\-eler as one ofthe notable objects as he apiiroaches the city.It was completed in 1878, at a cost of $58,453.74,and the citizens are very proud of this finestructure. The general ofiices of the Burling-ton and Missouri Eiver in Nebraska, the Omahaand Southwestern, and the Omaha and Eepub-lican Valley Eailroads are also located here. Inaddition to these, the general agencies of theChicago, Sioux City, St. Louis, St. Paul andEastern lines have handsome ofiices. The Blue,Eed, Empire and other fast freight lines arerepresented in the city, and it is probable thatthe Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago, Milwaukeeand St. Paul, and other comijeting lines willpush their fast freight lines to a connectionwith the Union Pacific and secure a proijortionof the immense trans-continental trafiic. The Omaha and Eepublican Valley Eailroadhas taken steps looking to the early completion
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SCENES IN OMAHA. 1.—General View of Omaha and the Missouri Valley. 2.—Post-OflSce. 3 —High School Building.4.—Grand Central Hotel. 5.—Missouri Kiver Bridge. jTMB pmaiFia wowmi^r. 17 of a series of railroad lines that will gridironthe State. One line will run to Atchison, Kansas;another to Beatrice, another into the KepublicanValley, another to Grand Island and up theXoup Fork, and another to the Niobrara Eiverin the north. 3IanH/aftiires.—In manufactures Omahais now the most extensive manufacturing pointon the Missouri Kiver, the amount for 1880 be-ing in the neighborhood of ^12,000,000. Shehas an oil mill which sui)plies the extensivedemand for linseed oil and oil cake, and pro-motes the growth of flax in Nebraska, necessi-tating at an early day the erection of flax millsin the city for the manufacture of that article;extensive white lead works, completed in thespring of 1878; a safe factory, nail factory, shottower, several breweries, two distilleries, foun-dries and mac

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