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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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of mountains in sight, fromone side of the State to the other, is called Hum-boldt Range, or Humboldt Mountains. Asto the fertility of these and other valleys in thispart of the State, it all depends upon irrigation.A sage brush plain indicates good soil, but watermust be obtained to raise a crop. An effort hasbeen made to make Cariin the shipping point tothe mining districts on the north, but withoutmuch success thus far. The iron horses arechanged here, and with a fresh steed we passdown the valley. It is quite wide here, but willsoon narrow as we enter the Twelve Mile Canon.Like the former, the road winds around the baseof the bluffs and almost under the ledges, withthe river sometimes almost under us. Thepeaks and ledges seem to have no local name,but some of them are very singular. In oneplace, soon after entering the canon, the ledgeson the right side of the track seem to stand upon edge, and broken into very irregular, sei ratedlines,—the teeth of the ledge being uneven as to
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SCENES IN THE HUMBOLDT DESERT.,-T.e H o£ the Ha^M^^^^^e^T^^G^oJH^^ta-. «.-H.mWd.Bl«r. length. The height of the bluffs and of thepalisades below, is about the same as in theformer canon—800 feet. In some places the pal-isades are hollowed out like caves or openarches, and the debris that has crumbled andfallen from their summits during the ages,obscures their full form and height from view. Fifteen Mile Canon, in the Palisades, wasgraded in six weeks by the Central PacificRailroad Company, one cut herein containing6,600 cubic yards. Five Mile Canon just east-ward, was graded in three weeks, with a force of5,000 to 6,000 men. With the perpendicular walls rising on eachside of us, we glide around the curves, and inthe midst of these reddish lines of toweringrocks, arrive at Palisade,—576 miles from San Francisco,with an elevation of 4,841 feet. It is the initialpoint of the Eureka & Palisade Railroad, is agrowing little place between the wall rocks of theriver, and has a popu

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