. 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 . r, etc.,in the mount-ains. RichardF. Burton, theAfrican explor-er, visited thiscanon and SaltLake City in1800, and wrotea book calledCity of theSaints, whichwas publishedby the Harpers,in 1802. Hespeaks o f thewonders of thisvalley as fol-lows : EchoKanyon has butone fault; itssublimitv willmake all simi-lar featureslook tame. Weber Riverrises in theW a h s a t c hM p u n t ai n s,about 50miles in a southeastern direction from Echo, flows nearlydue weal tQ Kammas City, when it turns to thenorth-west and passes in that general directioninto the Great Sail Lak e, not far from Ogden. Go-ing up this river from Echo, Grass Creek flows inabout two and a half miles from the startingpoint. I bis creek and canon runs very nearlyparallel to Echo Creek. Very important and ex-tensive coal mines have been discovered from twoto four miles up this canon. It is not as wild orrugged in its formation as Echo Canon. Themines are Soon to be developed. Two and a halfmiles above the mouth of Grass Creek is. PULPIT ROCK AND VALLEY.—LOOKING SOUTHWARD Coalville,—a town of
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