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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est from their invest-ments. The opening of northern Wyomingto settlement, the development of the vast mineralresources of the territory, and the continued pros-perity of her stock interests, will give to the ISIagic City of the Plains the trade, growthand influence which her location demands. Hedlth.—As a resort for health-seekers, Chey-enne has superior advantages. It is about a thou-sand feet higher than Denver, with an atmospherenot only rarefied but dry. It has good hotels andlivery accommodations. Ponies are cheap, and in-valids can purchase them and ride jver the hillsand dales at pleasure. There is also an abundanceof game in the vicinity—antelope, rabbits, deer,etc. A bear weighing over 1,500 pounds, waskilled near here in 1875. It is the largest onewe ever saw. Its skin has been preserved, andthe bear has been mounted in good shape. Fre-quent excursions can also be taken in the warmsummer weather to Fort Laramie, Cheyenne Pass,and other places which will expand the lungs
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SCKNKS IN THE BLACK HILLS.1.—Golden Park. 2.—Genevieve Park. 3.—Custer Park. 4.—Lime«tone Peak. 5.—Harnejs Park. 68 TME ^m€iFia TQWMiBW. and invigorate the body. The results of severalyears observations at the United States SignalStation here, show that the temperature is moreeven, taking the years together, than in manyjjlaces East or on the Pacihc coast. The hottestdays do not equal those which frequently occurin the East, and in the summer months thenights are deliciously cool, assuring the invalidgood sleep under plenty of blankets. We predicta great rush of invalids and health-seekers tothis place and vicinity, in the near future. Al-though Cheyenne is a good place to sleep, yetthe people are wide-awake and owly nights. Utipidltij of Business at Clieyeune.—On the 22d of July, 18G7, the first lots wereoffered for sale by the Union Pacific RailroadCompany at Cheyenne—68 by 132 feet for 15150.Thirty days after, th3se lots sold for $1,0L)0 each,and in two to three mo

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