. 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 . the first station from Reno, miles. Passing on, up, milesbrings us to a new side-track station called Essex — which we pass; continuingalong the river, with its foaming currentnow on our left, first on one side, then onthe other, runs this beautiful stream untilwe lose sight of it altogether. The roadcrosses and re-crosses it on fine Howe trussbridges, running as straight as the courseof the mountains will permit. The moun-tains tower up on either hand, in placessloping and covered in places with timberfrom base to summit, in others precipitous,and covered with ifiasses of black, brokenrock. Tis a rough country, the canyon ofthe Truckee, possessing many grand andimposing features. On the road up we pass a new stationcalled Mystic—511 miles from Essex, andfour miles further Bronco — another side-track. Occa-sional strips of meadow land are seenclose to the rivers edge, but too small androcky to be of any use, only as grazingland. Now we cross the dividing line, andshout. as we enter California, a few miles east ofBoca—a small station miles fromBronco. The lumber interest is well rep-resented here, huge piles of ties, boardsand timber lining the roadside. The riverseems to be the mean
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