. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; 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, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and c
. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; 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, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona . ur stations on the road,being amply provided with all the facilities—roomy yards, shutes, etc., for a busi-ness that is rapidly increasing, and is des-tined, before many years, to far exceed allothers in the State. This section is well watered by rapidmountain streams, and the country aboundsin game of all kinds—a hunters valley of the Humboldt, for twentymiles above and below Elko, cannot beranked as among the best of its bottom-lands,though it is susceptible of cultivation toa considerable degree. But a narrow stripis meadow, the remainder being higher,gravelly land, covered with sage-brush andbunch-grass. Without irrigation it is use-less for agricultural purposes. Passing down from Elko—the valleydotted with the hamlets of the rancherfor about nine miles—we come oppositethe South Fork of the Humboldt. Thisstream rises about 100 miles to the south-east. It canyons through Ruby Mountains,and then follows down the eastern siderf one of the numerous ranges, which,. WOOD-HAULING IN NEVADA. (See Annex No. 39,) AND TACIFIC COAST GUIDE. 145 under the general name of the HumboldtMountains, intersect the country. For portions of the distance there is finevalley land along the stream, rangi
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