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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of mountains in sight, fromone side of the State to the other, is called Hum-boldt Range, or Humboldt Mountains. Asto the fertility of these and other valleys in thispart of the State, it all depends upon irrigation.A sage brush plain indicates good soil, but watermust be obtained to raise a crop. An effort hasbeen made to make Carlin the shipping point tothe mining districts on the north, but withoutmuch success thus far. The iron horses arechanged here, and with a fresh steed we passdown the valley. It is quite wide here, but willsoon narrow as we enter the Twelve Mile Canon.Like the former, the road winds around the baseof the bluffs and almost under the ledges, withthe liver sometimes almost under us. Thepeaks and ledges seem to have no local name,but some of them are very singular. In oneplace, soon after entering the canon, the ledgeson the right side of the track seem to stand upon edge, and broken into very irregular, sei ratedlines,—the teeth of the ledge being uneven as to
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SCENES IN THE HUMBOLOT DESEKT. 1.—The Sink of tlio Humboldt. 2.—Mountain Scene near Deetli. 3.—Group of Piute Indians. 4.—Humboldt River. 5.—Great American Desert, East of Elko. 6.—Wadsworlb. 182 WME ^m€IFI€ TQWMiMW. thethe length. The lieight of the bhiifs and ofpalisades below, is about the same as informer canon—8U(.> feet. In some places the pal-isades are hollowed out like caves or openarches, and the debris that has crumbled andfallen froin their summits during the ages,obscures their full form and height from view. Twelve Mile Canon, in the Talisades, wasgraded in six weeks by the Central PacificRailroad Company, one cut herein containing0,600 cubic yards. Five JVlile Canon just east-ward, was graded in three weeks, with a force of5,000 to G,600 men. With the perpendicular walls rising on eachside of us, we glide around the curves, and inthe midst of these reddish lines of toweringrocks, arrive at l*<illiiade,—576 miles from San Francisco,with an eleva

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