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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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to theleft you will no-tice the firstbench of landacross the river,with a higherbench or terracein the rear.Upon this firstbench, the Mor-risite massacretook place in1802, an accountof which weshall give in an-other place.Leaving Uintah,the road pursuesits way in ageneral norther-1 y directionalong the base ofthe mountains,till it arrives atOgden,,—theWEBER canon. western termi- nus of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1,033.8 milesfrom Omaha, and 4,340 feet above the level ofthe sea. By agreement between the two roads,it is also the eastern terminus of the CentralPacific Railroad. The place is one of con-siderable importance, being the second city insize and population in the Territory of Utah.It is regularly laid out, is the county-seat ofWeber County, has a court-house of brick,whieh, with grounds, cost about $20,000, twoor three churches and a Mormon tabernacle.The town may properly be divided into twoparts — upper and lower Ogden. The upperpart is pleasantly situated on an elevated
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SCENES IN WEBER CANON.l.-Ogden. Utah. Wahsatch Mountains in the distance. 2.-Devils Gate and High Peaks of Wahsatch Mountains.3.—Heights of Weber Canon. 4.—Tunnel No. 3, Weber Canon. 128 bench adjoining the mountains. This benchbreaks rather abruptly, and almost forms a bluff,and then begins lower Ogden. The upper partis mostly occupied for residences, and has somebeautiful yards with trees now well grown. Thelower portion—that which is principally seenfrom the railroad, is mostly occupied by businesshouses. One peculiarity of the towns in thesewestern or central Territories, is the running-streams of water on each side of nearly everystreet, which are fed by some mountain stream,and from which water is taken to irrigate theyards, gardens and orchards adjoining the dwell-ings. Ogden now has fully 6,000 people, and hasa bright future before it. It is not only the ter-minus of the two great trans-continental linesbefore mentioned, but is also the starting-pointof the Utah Central

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