. 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 .. . as we enter California, a few miles ea^of ^ BOCA, A station, 16 miles west of Verdi. Ele-vation, 5,533 feet. The lumber interestis well represented here, huge piles oflies, boards aud timber lining the road-side. The river seems to be the meansof transportation for the saw logs, im-mense numbers of them being scatteredup and down the stream, with here and. CKOFUTT S TltANS-<;03ffTINENTAT. TOTJIHST ,; E. thore a party of lumbermen â workingthemdown the mills. We pass on, through deep gravel cuts,uloug Iho biuse of bhick masses of rock,wliich tower l;ir above ns. past slopingpine-clad hills, lor eight miles, to TRCCKEE , 5,845 feet. It is situated onthe north bank of the Truekee River, inthe midst of a heavily timbered principal business of tho place is lum-bering, thou;<h an extensive freightingbusiness is carried on with other points inthe mountains. One can hardly get aroundthe town for the pile of lumber, ties andwood which cover the ground in every di-rection. Some fine stores and a good hotelare tho only buildings which can lay claimto size and finish corresponding with thegrowth and business of the place. Thetown is built of wooden buildings, mostlyon the north side of the railroad. A nar-row, crooked, muddy street separates xliefirst row of buildingsâthe business por-
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