. The Pacific tourist . nd add to the interest of these pages. The Representative Men of the Far We><t, who have been the energetic projectors and supporters of all itsactive and successful enterprises, are illustrated in our pages. I acknowledge, with pleasure, special thanks for the services of Mr. J. B. Davis, late editor of The Common-wealth, Topeka, Kansas, and F. E Shearer, of San Francisco, who have done so much by personal travel andeffort to make this Guide complete; also to G. W. Savage of Salt Lake City, for photographs. As the Tourist looks with pleasure upon the sketches of
. The Pacific tourist . nd add to the interest of these pages. The Representative Men of the Far We><t, who have been the energetic projectors and supporters of all itsactive and successful enterprises, are illustrated in our pages. I acknowledge, with pleasure, special thanks for the services of Mr. J. B. Davis, late editor of The Common-wealth, Topeka, Kansas, and F. E Shearer, of San Francisco, who have done so much by personal travel andeffort to make this Guide complete; also to G. W. Savage of Salt Lake City, for photographs. As the Tourist looks with pleasure upon the sketches of Thomas Moran, who more than any otherAmerican artist has illustrated the Glories of the West, or upon the scenes illustrated from the paintings ofBierstadt, Americas favorite painter, and the sketches by Warren, Will, and others, all from life and accuratein every detail, let him give due credit to Art for these happy embellishments of nature. Wishing everytraveler ban voyage, I am, cordially, HENRY T. WILLIAMS, y^MUMICAS QMATE ST WOJDUH ^ I The Pacific Railroad. Her grandest scenery borders its magnificentpathway; thitiier is her most jwpular route ofpleasure travel, and most celebrated health resorts;and along these iron lines, the monument offinancial intrepidity and daring engineering skill,there is opened a new AVest, a Continent of itself,richer in wealth than the most sanguine of hopes;and hither, in so short space of time, has pouredso immense a volume of trade, as to change theentiie commerce of the world. Industries have arisen by the opening of thisgreat trans-continental line which were never ex-pected or dreamed of by the projectors; therichest of mineral discoveries and the most en-couraging of agricultural settlements have alikeresulted, where little was thought of, and stran-gest of all, the tide of travel from 1h? Europeanand the Asiatic countries, and the distant isles ofthe Pacific Ocean, once the exclusive privilege ofEnglish vessels through the Sue
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