Identifier: pacifictourist1879will (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
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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d I States, at N«W York City, during thr Int-^ civilwar. Cisco was for u year ami a Iminus of the ro.wl, and lively with ithe construction ^^^ tiie road, ami for Niva«l.i-It had a j>opulatioii of 7.fHM», and .H«>in« dwellinir*erected at a cost of $.).( KM(; large war< 1 i all the intensity of frontier life. Anioval of the ttTuiinus t4i Tmckee. (:buildinirs were eitlxT taken down aior went f.ast to decay, until tlnir l--luistened by a fire that I-ft :morning sun to ri«e u;ii. but liwith a i-latform l.fXMiamid the ashes ami .sm Fnnn Cisco there is a U-uutiiul \north, with Red Motintain in tieJust back of Reil To d«tect ill til i-por romotfl outline of the human pn>ii>-. \\r..u;:ht in > — - -.tion liy the hand that nioulih-*! infinite shajw** of nature. i,t j.i . _. ..J thad continues on th« img aiune
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north side of the dividt^, with tlie canons of themany streams tiiat form tlif Yul)u on the ri;,ht, and a deep valley near by throujjii hard j»or-phyry, passing Bhiek Buttn on tlie left, crossingi Butte Canon, around Hopkins Bluffs and Mil-lers BlutYs, eight and a half miles to Kmifinint Gup,—22-\ niiU-s from San Fran-cisco, another day and night telegraph station, isalmost one vertical mile above San Francisco,the altitude being o,_21 feet. .Inst beforereaching this station, the Yuba turns abruptlyto the north, and just west of the turning placf,with an elevation barely perceptible to one rush-ing by. Bear River heads in a valley of thesame name, clothed in sununer with a delightfulgreen. At Emigrant Gap the divide is crosst-dby raians of a tunnel, and the old EmigrantRoad crossed the Gap liere, and is crossed byi\vi railroad, just a few rods west of tlie tunnel.Hre the old emigrants let their wagons downthe steep mountain side by ropes, witli which aturn or two were taken around

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