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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d, and lively with business forthe construction of the road, and for Nevada.It had a population of 7,000, and some dwellingserected at a cost of $5,000 ; large warehouses, andall the intensity of frontier life. After the re-moval of the ternainus to Truckee, the desertedbuildings were either taken down and removedor went fast to decay, until their destruction washastened by a fire that left nothing for themorning sun to rise upon, but the freight housewith a platform 1,000 feet long, standing aloneamid the ashes and surrounding forests. From Cisco there is a beautiful view on thenorth, with Red Mountain in the distance.Just back of Red Mountain is the Old ManMountain, but hid from view until the train de-scends a few miles farther. To detect in this any sharp or remote outlineof the human profile, wrought in colossal propor-tion by the hand that moulded and chiseled theinfinite shapes of nature, is probably beyondthe keenness of any Yankee. Leaving Cisco, the railroad continues on the
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wmm ^^mwm w&wBmw. 233 north side of the divide, with the canons of themany streams that form the Yuba on the right,and a deep valley near by through hard por-phyry, passing Black Butte on the left, crossingButte Canon, ai-ound Hopkins Bluffs and Mil-lers Bluffs, eight and a half miles to Em iff rant Gap,—223 miles from San Fran-cisco, another day and night telegraph station, isalmost one vertical mile above San Francisco,the altitude being 5,221 feet. Just beforereaching this station, the Yuba turns abruptlyto the north, and just west of the turning place,with an elevation barely perceptible to one rush-ing by. Bear River heads in a valley of thesame name, clothed in summer with a delightfulgreen. At Emigrant Gap the divide is crossedby means of a tunnel, and the old EmigrantRoad crossed the Gap here, and is crossed bythe railroad, just a few rods west of the tunnel.Here the old emigi-ants let their wagons downthe steep mountain, side by ropes, with which aturn or two were taken

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