. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . ads of cattle—288 head—making 32car-loads in all. She once made a tripacross the bay, loaded, running a distanceof three and a half miles in 22 l)oat is 200 Icet on deck, 08 feet beam,with Hat bottom. The engines are 200horse power; cy 1 inders, 22x84, and were con-structed at the companys shops in Sacra-mento. The soutli slip is the passenger slip,.where lands the regular ferry-boatTbetweenOaklan
. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . ads of cattle—288 head—making 32car-loads in all. She once made a tripacross the bay, loaded, running a distanceof three and a half miles in 22 l)oat is 200 Icet on deck, 08 feet beam,with Hat bottom. The engines are 200horse power; cy 1 inders, 22x84, and were con-structed at the companys shops in Sacra-mento. The soutli slip is the passenger slip,.where lands the regular ferry-boatTbetweenOakland and San Francisco. On eachside of this slip is a passenger-house—one30x70 feet, the other 40.\50 fed. In thesebuildings are located Ihe division offices ofthe Railioad Company. They afford ampleaccommodations for passengers, and theenormous travel, the advance guard ofwhich lias only just e-mmenced to arrive. The hist ship that loaded at this pierwas the Jennie Eastman, of Bath, Eng-land. She commenced loading August4th, 1870, for Liverpool, with wheat,brought—some from San Joaquin Vallej,but the greaer portion from the end of theCalifornia and Oregon railroad, 230 miles. PALACE HOTEL, -SAN FRAXCISCO. A. D. Sharon, Lesse 1. See Annex No. 50, 190 CROFUTts new overland TOUKISr north of San Francisco.• It is liardiy understood yet by the peopleof tlie world, that the China, Japan, Sand-wich Island, and Aus-tralian steamships,and ships both large and small, can landat this pier, load and unload from and intothe cars of the Pacific railroad; and thosecars can be taken through, to and trom theAtlantic and Pacific Ocean,without change;that immense quantities of gf)ods are nowtransported in that way, much of them inBO^D, in one-tenth the time heretofore oc-cupied by steamships and sailing these facts are fully understood,and the necessary arrangements made,the rush of overland freight traffic willcommence, the extent of which, within thenext twenty yenrs,few, i
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