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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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sesthe beholderWith awe, butthe snow shedsallow no satis-factory view. The first reg-ular stationafter leaving thesummit is 5.8miles west,called Cascade,—239 miles fromSan Francisco.The vertical de-scent from thesummit to thispoint is 498 feet,and nothinghere will checkones readinessto descend far-ther, for it isonly a signalstation, andthere are noneto signal, ex-cept such as are employed on the road. South of the station are Kidds Lakes, empty-ing into the South Branch of the South Yubathrough the Upper and Lower Cascade Ravines.The bridges over the ravines will be a gratefulbut short-lived relief from the restraint of thesnow sheds. The time in passing is too short totake in the charms of the water-falls in summer,or the ice-clad rocks in winter, and the extendedview on the right. Kidds Lakes are dammed so as to impound thewater during the winter and spring, and whenthe dry season approaches, it is let out over theCascades into the river and carried, eventually, toDutch Flat. 231
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SCENERY OF THE SIERRAS, NEAR SUMMIT. There is a great spur, called Crockersthrown out in this ridge, through which theroad passes in tunnel No. 5, and thence alongStanford Bluffs to Tamarack,—235 miles from San Francisco,another signal station. A stop will not belikely, unless to meet or pass a freight train. Asmall saw-mill is in operation during part of theyear. Just below Tamarack, the Yuba has worna large gorge, and the bold bluffs, which unfor-tunately are below the road-bed, have been called New Hampshire Rocks, and the name maywell suggest that the Granite State will sooncease to be regarded as the Switzerland ofAmerica. The road continues on the north or Yuba sideof the divide, between the waters of the Yubaand American Rivers ; and between Tamarackand Cisco, Red Spur and Trap Spur are passedby tunnels No. 4 and No. 3. Three and a halfmiles from Tamarack is Cisco,—231 miles from San Francisco, a dayand night telegraph station, with an elevationof 5,939 feet. It was named a

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