. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . CHAPTER XXIX. ALONG THE SACRAMENTO. ROM Triickee 1 rode along the line ofthe Central Pacific Railroad, stopping forthe night at villages intermediate betweenTrucUee and Sacramento, the })rincipal ofwhich were Summit, Colfax and is the highest point of the passthrough which the railroad crosses theSierra Nevada, its height above sea
. Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi .. . CHAPTER XXIX. ALONG THE SACRAMENTO. ROM Triickee 1 rode along the line ofthe Central Pacific Railroad, stopping forthe night at villages intermediate betweenTrucUee and Sacramento, the })rincipal ofwhich were Summit, Colfax and is the highest point of the passthrough which the railroad crosses theSierra Nevada, its height above sea-levelbeing 7,042 feet. The population wasonly a little over one hundred. Colfax, fifty-fourmiles from Sacramento, had a population of nearly sixhundred, mostly occupied at the gold mines in thevicinity. Auburn, thirty-six miles from Sacramento,is also a gold-mining village. .Its population wasgiven me as over 1,200. Two weekly papers are pub-lished here, and three hotels oifer good accommoda-tions to tourists and others. Sacramento was reachedXovembor twenty-first, and here T found myself withina hundred miles of my destination. California has the Pacific Ocean for its westernboundary. Along the seaboard lies the Coast Range ofmountains, while
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