. 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 . causedby the low Mission Hills there lifting themselves,and to the tendency of travel along the narrowpeninsula toward the country beyond it. Thestreets south of Market are some of them verybroad, and some quite narrow. This portion ofthe city was laid out originally with very widestreets and in blocks 200 varas or 550 feet wide,and 300 varas or 825 feet long, but these provedtoo large and it became necessary to cut them upby intervening streets, which have no element ofregularity except parallelism with the others. Thestreets are all numbered from the city front, or fromMarket Street, one hundred numbers being al-lowed to each block after the first, to which only99 are assigned, the even numbers always on the 263 right hand as the numbers run. It is thus easyto locate any street and number. There are afew avenues, but with the exception of Van Ness,which is 125 feet wide, and built up handsomely,and Montgomery Avenue, which is laid out toprovide easy access to the North Beach portion. SAN FRANCISCO MINT. of the city, they are usually short and narrow
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