. 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, 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 poin
. 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, 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 . n-nel of the river has been turned from its bed bya heavy embankment—a work rendered neces-sary to avoid a short curve, and on we go over avery crooked piece of road for nearly six miles,when we cross the river and the valley againopens. We have now passed through the TwelveMile Canon, and soon arrive at Cluro,—a way-station 565 miles from SanFrancisco, with an elevation of 4,785 do not stop unless signaled. The valleybecomes wider, the hills more sloping and lesshigh as they border the valley, but away to theleft are the higher peaks of the Cortez Mount-ains. We now enter an open basin, and on theright we see the old emigrant road making upthe hill from Gravelly Ford. One branch ofthis road, leading to the same ford, we alsocross, but the old roadway, plainly visible fromthe cars, up the hill on the north side of the river,marks the locality of the ford itself. The riverhere spreads over a wide, gravelly bed, and is TMM PatCIflC W&tf&IMW. 183 B a 8I § s toofa. 184 always shallow so that it is easily crossed. Theemigrants, in the days
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