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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he loundhouse and neces.^aryrepair shops, for the division, is a great help tothe town, as they give employment to quite anumber of skilled mechanics. It is also the lo-cation of the government land office for theGrand Island land district. It has two wteklynewspapers, the Times and Independent, both ofwhich are well conducted. The new eating-house, elsewhei-e spoken of. is the finest on theroad, though less expensive than many. It costabout !§15,000. This is a breakfast and supperstation, and the company has furnished ampleaccommodations for the patrons of this house. After leaving Grand Island, a magnificentstretch of prairie country opens to view. Thesame may be said of the entire valley, but th?view in other places is more limited by bluffsand hills than here. After passing Silver Creek,there is a section of the road, more than fortymiles, in a straight line, but the extent of prairiebi-ought into vision there is not as large as here.Up to this point, you have doubtless witnessed
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EMINENT AMERICAN EXPLORERS AND ARTISTS.1.—Gen. Custer. 2.—Gen. Fremont. 3.—Lieut. Wheeler. 4.—Prof. F. V. Hayden. 5.—Albert Bierstadt.G.—Mai. J. W. Powell. 7.—Thomas Moran. TME ^^€IF£€ TQWm^W. 31 many groves of cottou-wood around tlie numer-ous dwellings you have passed, but they begin todiminish now—nearly the last of them beingseen at Alda,—the next station, some eight mileswest of Grand Island, 101.5 miles from Omaha,at an elevation of 1,907 feet. There are one ortwo stores, a school-house, and several dwellings.It is two miles east of Wood River, which isspanned by the first iron bridge on the line. Allregular passenger trains stop at this station andreceive and deliver mails. In other parts of thecountry, AVood River would be called a Iivulet orsmall brook, but such streams are frequently dig-nified with the nam3 of rivers in the West. Itforms a junction with the North Channel of thePlatte River, just south of Grand Island. Its riseis in the bluffs across t

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