. 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 . as to their origin or pur-pose. Gold Hill follows the ravine of the same name,and the street is both steep and crooked. It hasa population of 6,000 and is, in all respects, likeVirginia City. The two are built up so as to bewithout marked separation. Gold Hill has avigorous daily paper, the Gold Hill News, aCatholic, Methodist and Episcopal Church. plans creditable to the city and the land of sil-ver. Its narrow streets show with what diffi-culty sites are obtained for buildings, whetheranchored to the rocks or perched in mid-air, and,while in the city but little of it is visible at atime, the dwellings are mostly low, and, there-fore, unstable roofs do less damage when theWashoe zephyrs blow. It appears small, but isthe most densely packed of all American its people are underground, wherelighted candles glimmer faintly in subterraneanpassages, by day and by night. Bedrooms dodouble duty for hundreds or thousands, whosework never ceases. Miners are shifted every eight. STREET SCENE IN VI Virginia City and Gold Hill are connected by al
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