. 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 . e-blade to several feet. These peculiarlayers, or bands, are quite varied in shades ofcolor. In some of the thin slabs of shale, arethousands of beautiful impressions of fish, some-times a dozen or so within the compass of a ters of the river are of the purest emerald, withbanks and sand-bars of glistening white. Theperpendicular bluff to the left is nearly 1,500 feetabove the level of the river, and of a bright redand yellow. When illuminated by full sunlight,it is grand, and deserves its full title The Flam-ing Gorge. It is the entrance to a gateway tothe still greater wonders and grandeurs of thefamous Red Canon that cuts its way to a depthof 3,000 feet, between this point and its entranceinto Browns Hole. Leaving Green River the railroad crosses thebridge, turns to the right, and runs along underthe bluffs — the highest being about 350 feethigh, and almost over the river in one place—forabout three miles, when it again turns to theleft, passing the divide where there is an un-. lANTS CLUB, GREEN R1VEK square foot. Impressions of insects and wa


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