. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . hrough the canons and areled into the city where the clear, cold, limpidwaters sing a pleasant song as they sportand play along the sides of the streets, wherethey are conducted through the entire great object of interest to the touristand stranger is Temple Square; here aresituafpd the great ecclesiastical buildingsof the Mormon Church. The return trip from Salt Lake City maybe made through Gunnison and toward theworld-famed Marshall Pass. Gradually theview becomes less obstructed by mo
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . hrough the canons and areled into the city where the clear, cold, limpidwaters sing a pleasant song as they sportand play along the sides of the streets, wherethey are conducted through the entire great object of interest to the touristand stranger is Temple Square; here aresituafpd the great ecclesiastical buildingsof the Mormon Church. The return trip from Salt Lake City maybe made through Gunnison and toward theworld-famed Marshall Pass. Gradually theview becomes less obstructed by mountainsides, and the ej e roams over miles of cone-shaped summits. The timberless tops oftowering ranges show that one is among theheights, in a region familiar with the the steeps are conquered, until atlast the train halts upon the summit of Mar-shall Pass. A halt of ten minutes or so givesan opportunity to ascend to the observatoryconstructed above the station, which elevation commands a view of both Atlantic andPacific Slopes, one of the most inspiriuifviews on the THE EOVALGORGE ^J^ Union Stock Yards December 31st, 1900, closed tlie seventeenth years business of the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha,and where, in the spring of 1S84, was simply a cluster of farms, has been built up one of the best appointedand most commodious stock yards, five mammoth packing lumses and several smaller enterprises, throughwhicii employment is given to a large number of people, created a town which, starting as a village, hasgrown into a thriving city of over 2o,OiO inhabitants, all of whom, directly or indirectly, derive their incomefrom these industries, which have grown in importance until ranking thirtl in the list of packing centers oftlie world. With a natural location uneciualled by any other point in this country as central for receivinglive stock, or the raw material, and as a distributing point for both the product of this industry and forfeeders to the g
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