. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and c
. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona . CAPE HORN, COLUMBIA RIVER, OREGON. (See Annex No. 38.) PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 137 In the cars belonging to each line, asumptuous repast was served up to the in-vited guests. Then, as the sun sank lowtowards the western summit of PromontoryPoint, the long trains moved away withparting salutes from the locomotives, andthe celebration was ended, the participantsspeeding away to their far distant homes,and so closed the eventful day on Prom-ontory Point. For sketch of Great Salt Lake, seeAnnex No. 21. For Hudnuts Survey of route to Oregon,see Annex No. 28. We now resume our westward journeyfrom Promontory. Four miles west (neara gravel track on the north side) can beseen close to the road, on the south side^ asign-board, which reads, *TEN miles op track in one Agaiu, on the same side, ten miles fur-ther west, another with the same inscrip-tion will appear. These boards mark thetrack which was laid by the track layers ofthe Central Pacific company in one day^under the immediate charge
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