. 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 .. . Desert—is miles from HotSprings. This is, indeed, a desert. In thenext 5197 miles, we gain about 100 feet alti-tude, pass Two Mile Station, descend 82feet in the next miles, and arrive at \%aclswortli—This town is situatedon tlie east bank of the Truckee River andthe western border of the desert, and con-tains some good buildings, and a pojaula-tiou of about 600. The division workshops are locatedhe
. 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 .. . Desert—is miles from HotSprings. This is, indeed, a desert. In thenext 5197 miles, we gain about 100 feet alti-tude, pass Two Mile Station, descend 82feet in the next miles, and arrive at \%aclswortli—This town is situatedon tlie east bank of the Truckee River andthe western border of the desert, and con-tains some good buildings, and a pojaula-tiou of about 600. The division workshops are locatedhere, and consist of a round-house of 20stalls, car, machine and blacksmith the workshops, a piece of landhas been fenced in, set out with trees, afountain erected, and a sward formed, bysowing grass-seed and irrigating it—mak-ing a beautiful little oasis. Considerablefreight is shipped from this station to min-ing camps to the south. Pine Grove Copper Mines lies six milessouth of the town. They attract little at-tention, that mineral not being muchsought after. Ten miles south are theDesert mines, which consist of gold-bear- CROFUTT S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST 143. SNOW SHEDS—SEE PAGE 15t iug quartz lodes. Some of the minesthere are considered very rich. Ninetymiles south, at Columbus, are located tluefamous Borax mines of Nevada, said to bevery rich. The Piute In-dians have tworeservations;one is situacdeighteen milesnorthward, andanother to thesoutheast, atWalker Lake. LeavingWadsworth,wecross the Truc-kee River, ona Howe trussbridge, ourcourse being tothe streamrises in LakesT a h o e andDonner, whichlie at the east-ern bae of the^leiras, aboutbO lailes dis-tant From itssouice in LakeI : that courseuntil it reaches I tlu^ place,^\here it turnsnoith about 25 I miles, branch-es <uid one por-tion enters Pjr-ami([ and the i otlu r AYinne-mucca Lake. The levellands border-ingtheTruckeeconsist mostly of gravelly upland coveredwith sage-brush. It
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