. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . 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 sage brush plain indicates good soil, but watermust be obtained to raise a cro]). An effort hasbeen made to make Carlin the shippin
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . 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 sage brush plain indicates good soil, but watermust be obtained to raise a cro]). An effort hasbeen made to make Carlin 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 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, serratedlines,—the teeth of the ledge being uneven as to. SCENES IN THE HUMBOLDT DESERT. 1.—The Sink of the Humboldt. 2.—Mountain Scene near Deeth. .3.—Group of Piute Indians. 4.—Humboldt River. 5.—Great American Desert, East of Elko. 6.—Wadsworth. 182 TMM ^m€lFm TBWmiBW. length. The height of the bhiffs 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 sunnnits during the ages,obscures their full form and height from view. Twelve Mile Canon, in the Palisades, wasgraded in six weeks by the Central PacificRailroad Company, one cut herein containing(j,t)00 cubic yards. Five JMile Canon just east-ward, was graded in three weeks, wi
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