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Title: The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, U.S. Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ry CreekCanon comesin on theright. Theroad nowpasses roundshort curvesamidst thewildest scen-ery, when it issuddenlyblocked to allhuman ap-pearance ; yettunnel No. 3gives us liber-ty. Crossinga bridge ob-serve the ter-raced mountain on the right, and by the timeit is well in view, we enter and pass throughtunnel No. 4, after which comes Round Valley,where a huge basin in the mountains is formed,and where man again obtains a foothold. Onthe right of the mountain, as you enter this val-ley, there is a group of balanced rocks, that seemready to topple over into the valley below. Stillrounding another point farther down, and wearrive at Weber,—1,008.5 miles from Omaha, an ele-vation of 5,130 feet. It is a telegraph station ina thrifty looking Mormon village. The valleyhere widens out—the narrows are passed—andscenes of surpassing beauty, especially in thesummer, enchant the eye. To the left themountains gradually recede, and East CanonCreek, which takes its rise in Parleys Park, be-
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THOUSAND MILK TRE fore mentioned, cutting its way through therocky hills, comes into the valley of the Weber.This station is the nearest point on the UnionPacific Road to Salt Lake City. The town andcultivated farms in the valley seem like an oasisin the midst of a desert. Here, for the first timeon the road, the traveler will see the magic sign, Z. C. M. I., which, literally translated, means Zions Co-operative Mercantile Institution,where all the faithful are expected to purchasetheir dry goods, groceries, notions, etc. TheMormon name for this station is Morgan City.As you leave this station, the same querybroached before, rises in the mind of the trav-eler—how are we to get out ? We seem entirelysurrounded by hills and mountains, and, whilethere is a depression visible off to the right, it does not seemlow enoughfor a railroadto pass over.But we followthe riverdown, andnotice the re-sult. Bend-ing first to the right, thento the left,and again to the rightround a curvelike an el-bow

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