Identifier: pacifictourist1877will (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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nd it. A shafthas been sunk from the ground level, and an-other vein of coal struck ten feet below the sur-face. We are minute in giving this descriptionof this coal mine, because it is claimed that thecoal it furnishes will coke, that it will give 50per cent, coke, and coke is the great demand ofthe smelting furnaces in the mining regions ofthis part of the Continent. It is claimed thatthe tests which have been applied to this coal,establish conclusively its coking qualities andovens for coking purposes have been put in.The work of the present year will, satisfactorilydetermine the question whether coking coal canbe found in the Rocky Mountains. The historyof rich mineral-producing regions is that themetals are usually (because cheaper) brought to the fuel instead of carrying the fuel to the metal.Hence if these coal mines are proved to producegood coke, a town of smelters must spiing upnear by. Wahsafch,—a telegraph station, on the dividebetween Bear River Valley and Echo Canon. It
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ROCKS NEAR ECHO CITY.1.—Bromleys Cathedral. 2.—Castle Rock. 3.—The Great Eastern. 4.—Hanging Rock. J is 968 miles from Omaha, and reported to be6,879 feet above the level of the sea. The roadhere crosses a low pass in the Wfihsatch Rangeof Mountains. As you ascend the beautiful val-ley leading to this station, the grim peaks of theUintahs tower up in the distance on your left,while the adjoining hills shut out the higher ele-vations of the Wahsatch Range, on the north.Leaving Evanston, the road turns abruptly to the left, and the town and valley are soon lost tosight. Four miles out, on the left side of thetrack, the traveler will notice a sign put up on apost—the east side of which reads, Wyoming,the west side, Utah. Wahsatch was formerlya terminus of a sub-division of the road, andcontained the regular dining-hall of the company,with j*oundhouse, machine and repair shops, etc.The water in the tank is supplied from a mount-ain spring near by, and a Y for turningengines, and

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