. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . ain ; it has an ele-vator, grain warehouses, two stores, a Catholicchurch, good school-house, and a hotel. Youare now near the famous Elkhorn Valley andRiver. By a deep cut, the railroad makes itsway through the bluff or hill ou the east sideof this stream, about a mile from the station. The elevation of Waterloo is laid down at l,14ofeet. The town has a fine water-power whichhas been im
. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . ain ; it has an ele-vator, grain warehouses, two stores, a Catholicchurch, good school-house, and a hotel. Youare now near the famous Elkhorn Valley andRiver. By a deep cut, the railroad makes itsway through the bluff or hill ou the east sideof this stream, about a mile from the station. The elevation of Waterloo is laid down at l,14ofeet. The town has a fine water-power whichhas been improved by the election of a largefiouring-mill. It also has two steam flouring-mills, and a new depot. At this point youenter the Platte Valley, of which so muchhas been written and which occupies such aprominent place in the history of the Elkhorn and Platte Rivers form a junc-tion a few miles south of this point, and thebanks of these streams are more or less studdedwith timber, mostly cotton wood. Jn fact, thei^lkhorn has considerable timber along itsbanks. Valley—is 35 2 miles flom Omaha, and is1,120 feet above the sea. It has a stoie andhotel, and is the center of a rich farming dis-. MGHr SCKNE. PBAIRIi: ON FIUE and tlion on a down grade you glide intothe valley. The rolling prairies are now be-hind you and south, beyond the Platte River,which for the first tiiui com^s into view. Cross-ing the Elkhorn River you arrive at Waterloo^ —?i\)SS miles from Omaha, andonly two miles from the last station. A fewyears sincp, 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 flsh-eggs in transit; the contents of thiscar were of course lost in the riv^r, and sincethat time the Elkhorn abounds in pike, pickerel,has-*, sunfish and perch. What the Californiastreams lo^^t by this disaster the Elkhorn gained,as th»se fish have increased rapidly in thisstream, where they were previously unknown
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