. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . he roundhouse and necessaryrepair shops, for the division, is a great help tothe town, as they give employment to quite anumber of skilled mechanics. It is also the lo-cation of the government land office for theGrand Island land district. It has two wteklynewspapers, the Times and Indepeiuleni, both ofwhich are well conducted. The new eating-hous
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . he roundhouse and necessaryrepair shops, for the division, is a great help tothe town, as they give employment to quite anumber of skilled mechanics. It is also the lo-cation of the government land office for theGrand Island land district. It has two wteklynewspapers, the Times and Indepeiuleni, both ofwhich are well conducted. The new eating-house, elsewhere spoken of. is the finest on theroad, though less expensive than many. It costabout ifil 5,000. This is a breakfast and supperstation, and the company has furnished ampleaccommodations for the patrons of this house. After leaving Grand Island, a magnificentstretch of prairie country opens to view. Thesame may be said of the entire valley, but theview in other places is more liiuited by bluffsand hills than here. After passing Silver Creek,there is a section of the road, more than fortymiles, in a straight line, but the extent of prairiebrought into vision there is not as large as to this point, you have doubtless witnessed. EMINENT AMERICAN EXPLORERS AND ARTISTS. 1.—Gen. Custer. 2.—Gen. Fremont. 3.—Lieut. Wheeler. 4.—Prof. F. V. Hayden. 5.—Albert Bierstadt. 6.—Maj. J. W. Powell. 7.—Thomas Morau. TMM ^m€iFl€ WQW^iBW. 31 many groves of cotton-wood around the numer-ous dwellings you have passed, but they begin todiminish now—nearly the last of them beingseen at Alda,—the next station, some eight mileswest of Grand Island, miles from Omaha,at an elevation of 1,907 feet. There are one ortwo stores, a school-house, and several is two miles east of Wood River, which isspanned by the first iron bridge on the line. Allregular passenger trains stop at this station andreceive and deliver mails. In other parts of thecountry. Wood
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