. To California and back; . NEVADA AND UTAH. |EVADA formerly existed as part ofthe territory of Utah, and, havingleaped into sudden significance withthe discovery of silver sulphurets inwas separately organized and admittedinto the Union during the Civil War. Trap-pers were its pioneers in 1825, overland emi-grants crossed it as early as 1834, and theexplorations of Fremont began nine years is a land of silver and sage-brush andsteaming mineral springs; of salt and borax andsulphur; of parallel mountain ranges, rollingplains and flat alkaline sands, of limpid fish-thronged lakes and b

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. To California and back; . NEVADA AND UTAH. |EVADA formerly existed as part ofthe territory of Utah, and, havingleaped into sudden significance withthe discovery of silver sulphurets inwas separately organized and admittedinto the Union during the Civil War. Trap-pers were its pioneers in 1825, overland emi-grants crossed it as early as 1834, and theexplorations of Fremont began nine years is a land of silver and sage-brush andsteaming mineral springs; of salt and borax andsulphur; of parallel mountain ranges, rollingplains and flat alkaline sands, of limpid fish-thronged lakes and brackish sink holes thatsuck the flow of its rivers. Its composition isendlessly diverse, and there is abundance ofnoble scenery, but this does not generally lieadjacent to the railway route. In its transitthe tourist will not unlikely be aware of a fewhours of monotony—the first and the last to be135.

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