. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . AXD PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 151 or indirectly con-nected with thelumber trade. The educational ^interests have ^been provided for, |:Nevada county, in Hw h i c h Truckee [aCity is situated,be- =,-1ins justly celebra- s#ted for her public aschools. The TruckeeHouse is the head-quarters of thetourists who stopover to visit ob-jects of interest inthis locality. Thisstation is the endof the Truckee andthe commence-m
. Crofutt's new Overland tourist, and Pacific Coast guide ... over the Union, Kansas, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage .. . AXD PACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 151 or indirectly con-nected with thelumber trade. The educational ^interests have ^been provided for, |:Nevada county, in Hw h i c h Truckee [aCity is situated,be- =,-1ins justly celebra- s#ted for her public aschools. The TruckeeHouse is the head-quarters of thetourists who stopover to visit ob-jects of interest inthis locality. Thisstation is the endof the Truckee andthe commence-ment of the Sacra-mento division. The companyhave a 2 4 -s t a 11round-house andthe usual machineand repair shopsof a division loca-ted here. A line of stages leaves Truckee dai-Iv for Donner Lake, two miles : LakeTahoe, 12 miles; Sierraville. ad good wagon-road connects SierraCity with Truckee, via the HennessPass and Donner Lake. Freight is reshipped here for Don-ner and Tahoe Lakes, Sierraville andthe various towns in the Sierra Yal-lev. There are some wholesale and. OVERLAID PONY EXPKESS—5ee Footnote. retail houses in Truckee, which do alarge business. Lake Tahoe, or Bigler, as it is call-ed on some of the official maps, is lo-cated 12 miles south of Truckee. Ta-hoe is an Indian name, signifyingbig water, and is pronounced bythe Indians Tah-00, while thepale-faces pronounce it Truckee a splendid road af- Xit. 41 Anxhx. The Pony Kxpress—-was an enterprise started in IS^GO, by Majors, Rus-sell & Co., of lieavenworth, Kan., to meet thepressing business wants of tlie Pacific Coast. Itwill be remembered that the xisual time made onthe mail service, by steamer, between New Yorkand San Francisco, was about twenty-six first Overlaml mail—which arrived in SanFrancisco Oct. 10th, ISoS—carried it from Mo. .via Los Angeles, in twenty-three days,twenty-one hours. The Pony Express—yfhichleft St. Joseph. Mo., and San Francisco, simul-taneons
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