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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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raced and rounded, black, gloomy forests, over-head, and the frowning approach of the majesticmountains, stopped where the icy torrent slowlyrent the very frame-work of the Continent. For a time the tourist will be compelled toleave the main slope of the American River andbe carried across the ridge or divide at HogsBack, across Canon Creek, to Alta,—208 miles from San Francisco; 3,607feet elevation. Here are several stores and thecenter of considerable lumber trade. Its popu-lation does not exceed a hundred. It is a daytelegraph station, 4.8 miles from Shady Run.At one time soap-root, a bulb, growing like thestub of a coarse, brown mohair switch, justemerging from the ground, was gathered by theChinamen. It has strong alkaline properties,and is used for washing and for genuine hairmattresses. It has become too scarce to be gath-ered here with profit by even the keen, moon-eyed Celestial. Below Alta we strike the slope of Bear River,and on this water-shed we travel, winding among If
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hills, until we near Cape Horn. But only 1.9miles from Alta, we arrive at Dutch Flat,—200 miles from San Francisco,our approach to which is heralded by the unmis-takable evidences of mining, seen in the up-turned face of the country. The water that came down in advance of thecars from Summit Valley and Kidds Lakes is nowutilized. It was gathered from the East Fork ofthe American River, from Monumental Canon andWilsons Ravine, and carried in Bradleys ditcharound Lost Camp Spur and emptied into BlueCanon, near Blue Canon Station, and taken upagain at the station and carried by ditches andflumes to Fort Point, where the railroad crossesit, and soon after one of the spurs is tunneled intwo places to find an easy grade, but it cannotdescend safely as fast as the cars, and at Pros-pect Hill passes through a tunnel 100 feet abovethe railroad, and is then emptied into CanonCreek, from which it is again taken up and dis-tributed by flumes or great iron pipes to themines we overlook at Dutch

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