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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ing Sacramento at ten oclock a. m., andreaching San Francisco about six p. m. Thedistance is 108 miles. The river does not pre-sent the picturesque scenery of the Hudson, butthe tourist will be interested at every point,whether as he looks out over the rich landsawaiting reclamation, or the thriving villagesand fertile fields on either side, or the islandswell protected by high and broad levees. Thespacious bays — Suisun, San Pablo, and SanFrancisco — afford a series of views, in whichthe interest is like a good novel, increasing tothe end. Mount Diablo is nearly always inview. You pass the United States Arsenal atBenicia, once the rival of San Francisco, andthrough the Straits of Carquinaz. The UnitedStates Navy Yard, on Mare Island, overlooked bythe town of Vallejo, and the beauty of the ap-proach to San Francisco, noticed more at lengthin connection with the California Pacific Rail-road, will amply compensate for the difference intime between the all-rail route via Stockton and
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EEPRESENTATIVE MEN OP CALIFORNIA. l.-Senator Sargent. 2.-R. B. Woodward. 3.-Senator Sbaron, (Nevada ) 4-D o Mills o.-JamesC. Flood. 6.-^W. C. Ralston. 7.-M. S. Latham, T-^ov-ir^n. the river. The river-boats, however, are not runwith the regularity of the trains, nor are they aslarge and comfortable as they were a few yearsago. Leaving Sacramento on the Central PacificRaihoad, formerly the Western Pacific, wereach Brighton,—134 miles from San Francisco,where the Sacramento Valley Railroad leavesthe main track. This road extends to Folsom,22 miles, where it connects with the SacramentoValley and Placerville Railroad, to ShingleSprings 26 miles, whence daily stages leave forPlacerville, 58 miles from Sacramento. The oldtown of Brighton was on the Sacramento Riveropposite the present station, and on the oldPlacerville road. At the farm-houses along the country roads,you notice numerous windmills, of various sizesand styles, whirling away to fill reservoirs forhousehold wants, or irrigat

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