. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . 1 o g s arefloated down totlis 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-w a r d. Thereare 29 pits orkilns at Hilli-ard, nineteensmall ones, andteu large small kilnsrequire twenty-six cords ofwood at a fill-ing, and the eock
. The Pacific tourist : Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean : containing full descriptions of railroad routes ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . 1 o g s arefloated down totlis 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-w a r d. Thereare 29 pits orkilns at Hilli-ard, nineteensmall ones, andteu large small kilnsrequire twenty-six cords ofwood at a fill-ing, and the eock cut,large ones forty cords. The small ones costabout i|75l), each; the large ones igPOO. Thesekilns consume 2,000 cords of wood per month,and produce 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. the mountain tributaries, and north of Evans-ton, in Bear Riv( r Lake. Though the countryhas somewhat changed in ap])earance, 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 Hilliard, in large quantities, togetherwith numerous petrifactions of bones, etc., withfossilized fish, shells, ferns and other mateiials. Twenty-five miles a little south-west of Hil-liard are found two sulphur mountains. Jhesulphur is nearly 90 per cent, pure, in inex- haustible quan-tities. The scenery oftlie Upper BearRiver is ruggedand g r 20 milessouth of Hil-liard is a nat-u al fort whichwas taken pos-session of by agang of horsethieves and cut-t
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