. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . er-raced and rounded, black, gloomy forests, ovei-head, and the frowning approach of the majesticmountains, stopped where the icy torrent slowlyrent the very frame-work of the Continent. For a time the tourist will be compelled toleave the main slope of the American River andbe carried across the ridge or divide at HogsBack, across Canon Creek, to
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . er-raced and rounded, black, gloomy forests, ovei-head, and the frowning approach of the majesticmountains, stopped where the icy torrent slowlyrent the very frame-work of the Continent. For a time the tourist will be compelled toleave the main slope of the American River andbe carried across the ridge or divide at HogsBack, across Canon Creek, to Alfa,—208 miles from San Francisco; 3,607feet elevation. Here are several stores and thecenter of considerable lumber trade. Its popu-lation does not exceed a hundred. It is a daytelegraph station, miles from Shady one time soap-root, a bulb, growing like thestub of a coarse, brown mohair switch, justemerging from the ground, was gathered by theChinamen. It has strong alkaline properties,and is used for washing and for genuine hairmattresses. It has become too scarce to be gath-ered here with profit by even the keen, moon-eyed Celestial. Below Alta we strike the slope of Bear River,and on this water-shed we travel, winding among. wmm ^^oiFiQ w&w§^iBw. 235 hills, until we near Cape Horn. But only from Alta, we arrive at Dutch Flat,—206 miles from San Francisco,our approach to which is heralded by the unmis-takable evidences of mining, seen in the up-turned face of the country. The water that came down in advance of thecars from Summit Valley and Kidds Lakes is nowutilized. It was gathered from the East Fork ofthe American River, from Monumental Canon andWilsons Ravine, and carried in Bradleys ditcharound Lost Camp Spur and emptied into BlueCanon, near Blue Canon Station, and taken upagain at the station and carried by ditches andflumes to Fort Point, where the railroad crossesit, aivi soon after one of the spurs is tunneled intwo places to find an easy
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