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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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ally north andnorth-west of Elko. At Cope, the route ends.There is a weekly mail, stage and express lineto the Island Mountain District, 75 miles duenorth. This is a placer gold field, discoveredin 1873, and it is estimated that $100,000 in gold-dust, were taken out in 1875. Three miles northof the Island Mountain District, is the WyomingDistrict, where valuable silver mines are said tohave been discovered. The chief lode is knownas the Mardis, which is owned by a Chicagocompany. A stamp mill is now being erectedthere. The mineral belt before alluded to, be-gins at the north end of the Goose Creek Range,and runs south-west about 160 miles. It isabout 60 miles wide. Tuscarora is also some-what noted as a placer field, while Aurora, anew district west of Cornucopia, is said to bevery promising. It is 10 miles from the lastnamed place to Aurora. In the vicinity of the mining districts spokenof, there are rich agricultural valleys where allkinds of grain, but corn, are extensively raised,
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MOUNTAIN SCENE IN THE RUBY RANGE. and vegetables and melons grow to a great sizeand excellence. There are, also, vast stockranges—all of which are tributary to Elko. South from Elko there is a semi-weekly stage,mail and express route to Bullion City, the townof the Railroad Mining District. This town hasabout 150 people, and is distant 25 miles fromElko. The ores of this district are smeltingores, and the town has two large furnaces forthe reduction of this ore. The principal mines are owned by the Empire Company of New York. There is also a weekly stage line into theSouth Fork and Huntington Valleys—two richagricultural valleys, which are thickly settledwith farmers and stockmen. In addition to thetwo valleys last named, there are the Star,Pleasant and Mound Valleys, all rich agriculturaldistricts, and all tributary to Elko. Elko hasone daily and two weekly papers which are wellsupported. The Post is a weekly, Republicanin politics, and the Independent, daily and weekly,is Democr

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