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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ouse and necessaryrepair shops, for the division, is a great help tothe town, as they give employment to quite anumber of skilled mechanics. It is also the lo-cation of the government land office for theGrand Island land district. It has two weeklynewspapers, the Times and Indeptndtnt, IhjIIi ofwhich are well conducted. The new eating-house, elsewhere spoken of. is the finest on theroad, thoutrh less expensive than many. It costabout ?l.»,(MiO. Tliis is a breakfast and supperstation, and the company has furnished umjdeaccommodations for the patrons of this hou.se. After leaving Grand Island, a magnificentstretch of prairie country ojien.s to view. Thesame may be said of the entire valley, but theview in other places is more limited by bluffsanil hills than here. After jmssing Silver Creek,there is a section of the road, more than fortymiles, in a straight line, but the extent of prairiebn>nght into vision there is not as large as here.Up to this point, you have doubtless witnessed
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EMINENT AMERICAN EXPLORERS AND ARTISTS. 1.—Gen. Custer. 2.—Gen. Fremont. 3.—Lieut. Wheeler. 4.—Prof. F. V. Hayden. 5.—Albert Bierstadt. 6.—Maj. J. W. Powell. 7.—Thomas Moran. TRB^ ^.-iClFic ror/7isr. 31 many proves of cotton-wood around the numer-ous dwellinfjs you liave piissed, hut they bejjin todiminish now—nearly tlie last of them beingseen at Aldfi,—the next station, some eisjht mileswest of Grand Island, 101..j milHs from Omaha,at an elevation of 1,!M(7 feet. There are one ortwo stt>res, a school-house, and several dwellings.It is two miles east of Wood Kiver, which isspanned by the first iron bridge on the line. Allregular jnissenger trains stop at this station andreceive and deliver mails. In other parts of thecountry, Wood River would be called a rivulet orsmall brook, but such streams are frequently dig-nified with the name of rivers in the West. Itforms a junction with the North Channel of thePlatte Uiver, just south of Grand Island. Its rist;is in tht^

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