. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all poin
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes across the continent, all pleasure resorts and places of most noted scenery in the far West, also of all cities, towns, villages, Forts, springs, lakes, mountains, routes of summer travel, best localities for hunting, fishing, sporting, and enjoyment, with all needful information for the pleasure traveler, miner, settler, or business man : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads and all points of business or pleasure travel to California, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Montana, the mines and mining of the territories, the lands of the Pacific Coast, the wonders of the Rocky Mountains, the scenery of the Sierra Nevadas, the Colorado mountains, the big trees, the geysers, the Yosemite, and the Yellowstone . ad, and lively with business forthe construction of the road, and for had a population of 7,000, and some dwellingserected at a cost of $5,000 ; large warehouses, andall the intensity of frontier life. After the re-moval of the terminus to Truckee, the desertedbuildings were either taken down and removedor went fast to decay, until their destruction washastened by a fire that left nothing for themorning sun to rise upon, but the freight housewith a platform 1,000 feet long, standing aloneamid the ashes and surrounding forests. From Cisco there is a beautiful view on thenorth, with Red Mountain in the back of Red Mountain is the Old ManMountain, but hid from view until the train de-scends a few miles farther. To detect in this any sharp or remote outlineof the human profile, wrought in colossal propor-tion by the hand that moulded and chiseled theinfinite shapes of nature, is probably beyondthe keenness of any Yankee. Leaving Cisco, the railroad continues on the. north side of the divide, with the canons of themany streams that
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