. Crofutt's trans-continental tourist's guide : containing a full and authentic description of over five hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government forts and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, summer resorts; where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer, and other games; 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 Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad of Cal., their branches and connections by s
. Crofutt's trans-continental tourist's guide : containing a full and authentic description of over five hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government forts and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, summer resorts; where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer, and other games; 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 Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad of Cal., their branches and connections by stage and water, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Illustrated .. . 00x30feet. At the north end there is a mostmagnificent pulpit in the EpiscopalChurch style tliat man ever has seems that it is, and should be called,the Holy of Holies. It is completedwith the most beautiful drapery of ala-baster sterites, of all colors, varying fromwhite to pink-red, overhanging the be-holder. Immediately under the pulpitthere is a beautiftil lake of water, ex-tending to an unknown distance. VVethought this all, but. to our great ad-miration, on arriving at the centre ofthe first room, we saw an entrance toan inner chamber still more 8f;!endid,200x100 feet, with most beautiful alabas-ter overhangings, in every possibleshape of drapery. Here stands magni-tude, giving the instant impression of apower above man ; grandeur that defiesdecay ; antiquity that tells of ages un-numbered ; beauty which the touch oftime make-s more beautiful use exhaust-lees for the service of man ; strength im-perishable as the globe, the monumentof eternity—the truest emblem of that. 182 tkans-oontikentai, tookists uuiuu. grease-wood, the road winds ouward forthree miles further, passing several valu-able quarries, to the right and left, whenwe arrive at Elevation, 248 feet. Here the companyhave a machine shop and round-house of38 stalls, built in the most subsiiintialmanner, of granite obtain
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