. The Pacific tourist . um-ber, ties andsaw-logs arefloated down tothe cord-woodis used for char-coal. You willobserve the con-ical shaped pitsin which it ismade, near therailway track,on the right, asyou pass west-ward. Thereare 29 pits orkilns at Hilli-ard, nineteensmall ones, andten large small kilnsrequire twenty-six cords ofwood at a fill-ing, and thelarge ones forty cords. The small ones costabout $750, each; the large ones $900. Thesekilns consume 2,000 cords of wood per month,and produce 100,000 bushels of charcoal as a re-sult, in the same time. There are other k
. The Pacific tourist . um-ber, ties andsaw-logs arefloated down tothe cord-woodis used for char-coal. You willobserve the con-ical shaped pitsin which it ismade, near therailway track,on the right, asyou pass west-ward. Thereare 29 pits orkilns at Hilli-ard, nineteensmall ones, andten large small kilnsrequire twenty-six cords ofwood at a fill-ing, and thelarge ones forty cords. The small ones costabout $750, each; the large ones $900. Thesekilns consume 2,000 cords of wood per month,and produce 100,000 bushels of charcoal as a re-sult, in the same time. There are other kilnsabout nine miles south of the town, in active oper-ation. There are fine iron and sulphur springswithin three-fourths of a mile of the reddish appearance of the mountain wehave just passed indicates the presence of ironin this vicinity in large quantities, and coal alsobegins to crop out in different places as we godown the valley. Bear River is renowned forits trout. They are caught south of the road in. ROCK CCT, NEAR ASPEN. the mountain tributaries, and north of Evans-ton, in Bear River Lake. Though the countryhas somewhat changed in appearance, and a dif-ferent formation has been entered upon, we havenot passed the region of agates and gems,precious and otherwise. They are found in thevicinity of Milliard, in large quantities, togetherwith numerous petrifactions of bones, etc., withfossilized fish, shells, ferns and other materials. Twenty-five miles a little south-west of Mil-liard are found two sulphur mountains. Thesulphur is nearly 90 per cent, pure, in inex-haustible quan-tities. The scenery ofthe Upper BearRiver is ruggedand g r a n 20 milessouth of Mil-liard is a nat-ural fort whichwas taken pos-session of by agang of horsethieves and cut-throats, underthe lead of oneJack Watkins,a genuine front-ier ruffian, who,with his com-panions, for along time re-sisted all at-tempts at cap-ture. The hills andmountains inthis vicinityabound ingame, and of
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