. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and c
. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona . into existence withinthe last six years, it sinks to a unit. Thecity has many beautiful public and privatebuildings, thirteen churches, fourteen pub-lic and many private schools; is lightedwith gas, and well supplied with water,the latter from an artesian well 1,002 feetdeep, which discharges 360,000 gallons perday—the water rising ten feet above thecity grade. There are several good hotels;the Yo-Semit^ and Grand are the prin-cipal ones. The Independent and theHerald are daily papers, published city is embowered in trees and shrub-bery : most of the private residences andgardens of the citizens are certainly verytastefully ornamented with all kinds ofvines, shrubbery, and flowers. The soil around Stockton is adobe, avegetable mold, black and very slippery,and soft during the rainy season. Thisextends southward to the Contra Costas,and west about five miles, where thesand commences and extends to the river. Stockton, for several years after the com- 196 PACIFIC COAST LiVERMORE PASS TUNNEL.—See page 198 pletion of the Overland road, was thestarting point—in stages—for Yo SemiteValley and all the big trees. But, bythe building of the Visalia Division ofthe Central, most, if not all
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