. 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 . miles to Hampton—a side track, with cattlepens and shute for loading them—largeherds of which range in this section, on thehills and in the adjacent valleys. To the left, after leaving the station, wesee high buttes of all fantastic shapes,showing water lines, which indicate thatthere has been high water here sometime in the past. Carter—is 7 5 miles from the laststation. About seven miles north, a largesulphur spring, and near it a calybetaspring has been discovered, and aboutfourteen miles further a mountain of coal;the total thickness of the veins is 87 feet,traceable for twelve miles. A branch rail-road is contemplated to the coal bank, viathe springs. This station is named for Judge Carter, ofBridger. This gentleman has a large ware-house at this point, where freight until re-cently, was received and shipped to Vir-ginia City, Helena, and Bannock City,Montana Territory. This route was theshortest wagon route from the East, until the,Utah Northern was extended to JAMES BRIDGER Sse following pag«. The series of buttes that has been ob-served (m our left below, continues, butare more of a uniform height—table-topped,with scrub cedars in the gulches andravines. Some of these buttes
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