. The Pacific tourist . anda hotel. A new flouring-mill will be erected thisyear (1876). It has a sprightly newspaper calledthe Independent. You are now near the famousElkhorn Valley and River. By a deep cut,the railroad makes its way through the bluff or stream, where they were pieviously elevation of Waterloo is laid down at 1,110feet. The town has a fine water-power whichhas been improved by the erection of a largefioiuing-mill. It also has a steam-mill in processof construction, and a new depot. At this pointyou enter the Platte Valley, of which so nmclihas been written and whi
. The Pacific tourist . anda hotel. A new flouring-mill will be erected thisyear (1876). It has a sprightly newspaper calledthe Independent. You are now near the famousElkhorn Valley and River. By a deep cut,the railroad makes its way through the bluff or stream, where they were pieviously elevation of Waterloo is laid down at 1,110feet. The town has a fine water-power whichhas been improved by the erection of a largefioiuing-mill. It also has a steam-mill in processof construction, and a new depot. At this pointyou enter the Platte Valley, of which so nmclihas been written and which occupies such aprominent place in the history of the Elkhorn and Platte Rivers form a junction afew miles south of this point, and the banks ofthese streams are more or less studded with tim-ber, mostly Cottonwood. In fact, the Elkhornhas considerable timber along its banks. Valley—is miles from Omaha, and is1,120 feet above the sea. It has a store andhotel, and is the center of a rich farming dis-. NIGHT SCENE. PRAIRIE ON FIRE. hill on the east side of this stream, about a milefrom the station, and then on a down gi-ade youglide into the valley. The rolling prairies arenow behind you and south, beyond the PlatteRiver, which for the first time comes into the Elkhorn River you arrive at Waterloo,— miles from Omaha, andonly two miles from the last station. A fewyears since, a train was thrown from the bridgespoken of, by reason of the high water of afreshet. This train had one car of either youngfish or fish-eggs in transit; the contents of thiscar were of coui-se lost in the river, and sincethat time the Elkhorn abounds in pike, pickerel,bass, sunfish and perch. What the Californiastreams lost by this disaster, the Elkhorn gained,as these fish have increased rapidly in this trict. The land seems low, and one would easilygain the impression that the soil here was verywet, but after digging through the black surfacesoil two or three feet y
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