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Title: The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Miller, Joaquin, 1837-1913. Great Plains and desert. 1881
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad
Publisher: New York : Adams & Bishop
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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auge railioad twenty-two and one-half mileslong, passing thiough scenery of the mostexciting character. The touri:>t should spendone day over it. Grass Valley—is 16.74 miles distant, has apopulation of 7,000. It is the center of the bestgold quartz mining region of the State, and hasthe largest Protestant Church (Methodist Epis-copal) in the Sierra Mountains. It lias also aCongregational Church, Roman Catholic, Epis-copal and Christian or Campbellite. Until re-cently, it had two banks, but at present has none.It is the center of large lumber, fruit and min-ing interests, has a daily paper, the Union,*and one weekly, the Fo>lhili Tidinys. This city as well as Nevada, is reached fromColfax by the narrow gauge i-ailroad, on whichtwo trains connect daily with the trains of theCentral Pacific. The fare to Grass Valley is$7.07, and to Nevada City $2.25, the maximumallowed by the law of the State. Nevada—has a population of 4,.500, and isthe county-seat of Nevada County. The people
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^^-jJS^ CAPE HORN.1.—View looking down the American River. 2.—View • f Cape Horn am 3.—Point of Cape Horn. Anicri(an Kivor Canon, lookin E;ist. of Truckee are compelled to attend court in thiscity. Jt is in the same mining region as GrassValley, and was for many years the largest townin the mining regions. From an area of sixmiles, not less than f 75,000,000 have been taken,and 12,000,000 are now produced annually. Slightsnows fall in the winter. The route of the nar-row gauge railroad lies through the valley of theBear River, over which one looks in descendingthe Sierras. At the crossing of Bear River,where it joins the Elkhorn, there is some finescenery, and although in the distance of 22 1-2miles there are 16 stopping places, there are notowns or villages except at the termini and atGrass Valley. San Juan North, Comptonville,and Downieville, Sierraville, Lake City, Bloom-field, Moores Flat and Eureka South, andMarysville are all connected with Grass Valleyor Nevada by stage

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