. The Pacific tourist . e isa deep cut throuuflithe hill, and beyon<lit you strike MudCreek Valley witha down grade for afew miles. Thiscreek and the roadrun south on a liiunearly parallel with,and about two anda half miles from,the Missouri Riveruntil the ne.\t sta-tion is reached. Gil more.—It miKs from Oma-ha, with only 10 feetdifference in elera-lion—{)7G feet. Thevalley is quite thick-ly settled, and as you look out on the left ••ooi>-iiye. side of the cars, al>out four miles from Omaha,you will .see a saloon called Ilalf-Wav about this jwint you leave Douglas Cou
. The Pacific tourist . e isa deep cut throuuflithe hill, and beyon<lit you strike MudCreek Valley witha down grade for afew miles. Thiscreek and the roadrun south on a liiunearly parallel with,and about two anda half miles from,the Missouri Riveruntil the ne.\t sta-tion is reached. Gil more.—It miKs from Oma-ha, with only 10 feetdifference in elera-lion—{)7G feet. Thevalley is quite thick-ly settled, and as you look out on the left ••ooi>-iiye. side of the cars, al>out four miles from Omaha,you will .see a saloon called Ilalf-Wav about this jwint you leave Douglas Countyand enter .Sarpy County. Cilmore was namedafter an old resident of that locality, now you are some nine miles .south of Omaha,but only aViout three west of the MissouriRiver. Here you will first .see what are calledthe bottom lands of Nebraska. They are asrich as any lands on this Continent, as the re-markable crops raised thereon fully this .station you turn nearly due west, and. over the lower circle of what is called the OX-lx)W. Joftifiou,— miles from Omaha; eleva-tion JlJ feet, is the next station, and is a thriv-ing little town (pronounced Pa-pil-yo). It derivesits name from the creek on whose banks it is situ-ated. Tliis creek was named by Lewis and Clarkin their expedition U) Oregon, in 184, and isderived from a Latin word which means butter-fly. The main branch was crossed a little westof(JilnK)re. Itemji-ties into the Mis-soutone mile north ofthe Platte River. Itis rejiorted that theearly explorersnamed, saw an im-mense number ofbutterflies in themuddy and w etplaces near itsmouth, and hencethe name. Thesegentlemen exploredthis stream to , near the Elk-horn River. Thetown was laid outin the fall of 1869by Dr. Readle, andis the permanentcounty-seat of Sar-py County. It hasa fine brick ^ and a brickschool-house, hotels,flouring mills and agrain ware-house; islocated as are allthe towns on
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