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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

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ties ands a w -1 o g s arefloated down tothe railroad.The cord-woodis used for char-coal. You willobserve the con-ical shaped pitsin which it ismade, near therailway track,on the right, asyou pass west-ward. Thereare 29 pits orkilns at Hilli-ard, nineteensmall ones, andten large ones.The small kilnsrequire twenty-six cords ofwood at a fill-ing, and thelarge ones forty cords. The small ones costabout $750, each; the large ones $900. Thesekilns consume 2,000 cords of wood per month,and produce 100,000 bushels of charcoal as a re-sult, in the same time. There are other kilnsabout nine miles south of the town, in active oper-ation. There are fine iron and sulphur springswithin three-fourths of a mile of the station.The reddish appearance of the mountain ^ wehave just passed indicates the presence of ironin this vicinity in large quantities, and coal alsobegins to crop out in different places as we godown the valley. Bear River is renowned forits trout. They are caught south of the road in
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ROCK CUT, NEAR ASPEN the mountain tributaries, and north of Evans-ton, in Bear River Lake. Though the country-has somewhat changed in appearance, and a dif-ferent formation has been entered upon, we havenot passed the region of agates and gems,precious and otherwise. They are found in thevicinity of Hilliard, in large quantities, togetherwith numerous petrifactions of bones, etc., withfossilized fish, shells, ferns and other materials. Twenty-five miles a little south-west of Hil-liard are found two sulphur mountains. Thesulphur is nearly 90 per cent, pure, in inex- haustible quan-tities. The scenery ofthe Upper BearRiver is ruggedand grand.About 20 milessouth of Hil-liard is a nat-ural fort whichwas taken pos-session of by agang of horsethieves and cut-throats, underthe lead of oneJack Watkins,a genuine front-ier ruffian, who,with his com-panions, for along time re-sisted all at-tempts at cap-ture. The hills andmountains inthis vicinityabound ingame, and offerrare induce-ments to spo

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