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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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STREET SCENE IN VI Virginia City and Gold Hill are connected by aline of omnibusses, making four trips every hourduring the day, while the frequent trains of therailroad carry also many passengers. By railthe distance to Virginia City is two miles, inwhich several tunnels are passed through. Virginia City—is one of the most interestingtowns on the coast. One expects streets of goldand silver, and finds dust or mud. On October26, 1875, it was almost wholly destroyed by fire,but the disaster has shown what energy there isin the people and it is nearly rebuilt. The com-pletion of a first-class hotel has been delayed,but this will soon be accomplished, according to RGINIA CITY, NEVADA. hours, and the men of two shifts may occupy thesame couch. On many levels, down 2,300 feet, are thousandsof busy, bustling, narrow streets, over which isthe city proper. Tide-water is 6,205 feet belowthe banks, and perhaps it is best that it is nonearer, for now pumps are constructed to raisethe water to

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