. 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 . anda hotel. A new flouring-mill will be erected thisyear (1876). It has a sprightly newspaper calledthe Independent. You are now near the famousElkhorn Valley and River. By a deep cut,the railroad makes its way through the bluff or stream, where they were previously elevation of Waterloo is laid down at 1,140feet. The town has a fine water-power whichhas been improved by the erection of a largeflouring-mill. It also has a steam-mill in processof construction, and a new depot. At this pointyou enter the Platte Valley, of which so muchhas been written and which occupies such aprominent place in the history of the Elkhorn and Platte Rivers form a junction afew miles south of this point, and the banks ofthese streams are more or less studded with tim-ber, mostly cottonwood. In fact, the Elkhornhas considerable timber along its banks. Valley—is miles from Omaha, and is1,120 feet above the sea. It has a store andhotel, and is the center of a rich farming dis-. KIGHT SCENE. PRAIRIE ON FIRE. hill on the east side of this stream,
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