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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rful glow-ing sunlight, and the occasional cloud-storms,and wild display of jx)wer and glorj. We know of no countiy better w irth the titleof the • Suilzerland of America than Colorado,with its beautiful mountain parks, valleys, andsprings. (Jo and see thtin all. Jhe tour will beworthy of remend>rance for a life-time. The editor of this Guide expects .soon to i.ssueTfie (olorailo Tourist, devoted more especially tothe attractions of Colorado, .as the limits of thisGuide can not bei^in to jiossibly descriln! a hun-dre<lth part of the objects of interest within thatlittle regi(^n—a n-orlil of pleasure travel by itself. Of Life in Cttforado,—a prominent writerhas said : •• .\t Denver I fouml, as I thought, thegrade of civilization actually higher than in mostWestern cities. In elegance of building, in fin-i.sh, in furniture, in dress ami enuipages, thatcity is not behind any this side of the Atlanticborder. The total absence of squalidity and via- wmm ^m€iww w&wnmw.
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MOUNIAIN OP THE HOLY CROSS, COLORADO. TSJ^ ^^iciFic ror/?rsr. ible poverty, and I may aLso say of coarsenessand rowdyism, impressed me on my visit verystrongly, as did tlie earnestntss, activity and in-tensity of life which is everywhere so apparent. P. T. Harnum ouce said of Colorado, in a lec-ture : Why, Coloradoans are the most disap-pointed people I ever saw. Two-thirds of themcame here Vi die, and tliey cnttt rings them lia, and tliey are naturally exceedinglydisap()ointed. Tne average temperature is about GO°the yearround—the air is bracing, winter mild, and daysalnio-t always full t)f clear skies and bright warmsunshine. The purity and dryness of the atmos-pheie are provei l)ial. Mtntiifuin of the ITohj Cross.—The nameof this remarkable mountaiu is renowned to theends of the earth, and is the only one with thisname in the world. It is the principal mountainof the Sawatch Range, just west of the .MiddleP

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