. The Pacific tourist . ft. Newcastle,—170 miles fromSan Francisco,is a day tele-g r a p h station,five miles fromAuburn, 956 feetabove the has a hotel an .several store?every man ithe place a Goo .Templar, a n ■ isome promisinquartz mines i:.the vicinity. ]iwas named afteian old residentand hotel-keej-er called CastleAn earnest f iwhat may Iseen in the lovelvalley, that h;isuch unlimite iextent before thtraveler, may 1;seen in a flou. -i s h i n g orano ■tree, growing inthe open air, ina garden only rfew yards froiithe r a i 1 r o a d track. BLOOMER CUT. Almost every one will have noti
. The Pacific tourist . ft. Newcastle,—170 miles fromSan Francisco,is a day tele-g r a p h station,five miles fromAuburn, 956 feetabove the has a hotel an .several store?every man ithe place a Goo .Templar, a n ■ isome promisinquartz mines i:.the vicinity. ]iwas named afteian old residentand hotel-keej-er called CastleAn earnest f iwhat may Iseen in the lovelvalley, that h;isuch unlimite iextent before thtraveler, may 1;seen in a flou. -i s h i n g orano ■tree, growing inthe open air, ina garden only rfew yards froiithe r a i 1 r o a d track. BLOOMER CUT. Almost every one will have noticed an ever-green of attractive hue, a shrub and a vine,always trifoliatsd. It is the poison oak orpoison ivy, and unless one knows that he can-not be affected by it, he should avoid an inti-mate acquaintance. Below Newcastle about a mile, the railroadleaves Dutch Ravine, along which it has kept itsway from Auburn, and enters Antelope Ravine,by which it descends the plain. Petiryn—is a side track near a valuable. granite quarry. The rock is susceptible of ahigh polish—probably unsurpassed in the State,and was used for building the dry dock of theU. S. Navy Yard, at ]Mare Island, and other pub-lic buildings. In summer, 2UU men are employedin the quarries. l*ino,—ItJl miles from San Francisco, is aboutwhere the limit of the pines is found, in a coun-try full of huge_ boulders, with^^ quaniesof gran-■i ite, slightly soft-^1 cr than that ofPenryn. lioddui — is1G2 miles fromSan Francisco,a day and nighttelegraph sta-tion, with 249feet of elevation,and is the pointat wliich east-bound train stake an extialocomotive toascend themountain. Theroundhouse ofthe railroad com-pany, with 28stalls, situatedhere is a mostsubstantialstructure, madefrom the granitequarries nearthe these quar-ries, many ofthe streets ofSan Franciscoare paved, pul>lic and privatebuildings erect-ed, and herewere cut the im-mense blocksused for thepavements of thePalace
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