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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' 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: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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y, Centerville, Placerville andSilver City. Boise City is the territorial capital,a city said to contain 3,500 people, and locatedon the Boise River. There is not much agri-cultural land in the Territory, but a few of thevalleys are cultivated and produce excellentcrops of wheat, barley and oats, with potatoesand all kinds of vegetables. Crops are raised by are quite a large number of Chinese in the Ter-ritory, mostly engaged in placer and gulch min-ing. They are industrious and frugal and willfrequently make money from claims that havebeen abandoned as worthless by white men. Sofar as developed, the Territory has some richmines, and those in the Atlantic District are be-coming somewhat noted. It is claimed that therichest known gold mine in the country at pres-ent, is in this district In addition to the sup-plies, etc., shipped from Winnemucca, over6,000,000 pounds of freight were shipped fromKelton Station to this Territory in 1875, andmore than this amount will be shipped the pres-
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VIEW LOOKING DOWN THE SHOSHONE FALLS. irrigation. Boise Valley, the settled portion ofit, is about 60 miles long and four miles wide,and is the most thickly settled of any of thevalleys in the Territory. The nights are so cooland the altitude of the valleys is so great that ex-periments in corn raising have not, thus far,turned out very well. The second line of publicconveyance spoken of, runs from Winnemucca toSilver City. It is claimed that this town is equal in popu-lation to Boise City. It is sustained by themines located near it. At Rattlesnake Stationthere is also a connecting stage line for RockyBar, a mining camp, near which placer andgulch diggings have been discovered. There ent year. Much of it has been, and will be,mining machinery. A railroad through the Ter-ritory is much needed, will aid greatly in thedevelopment of its mines, and will be a payinginvestment from the start, or, at least, in a veryshort time after its completion. The Snake andSalmon Rivers are among its p

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