. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and c
. Crofutt's new overland tourist and Pacific coast guide : containing a condensed and authentic description of over one thousand two hundred cities, towns, villages, stations, government fort and camps, mountains, lakes, rivers, sulphur, soda and hot springs, scenery, watering places, and summer resorts : where to look for and hunt the buffalo, antelope, deer and other game; trout fishing, etc., etc. In fact, to tell you what is worth seeing--where to see it--where to go--how to go--and whom to stop with while passing over the Union, Central and Southern Pacific Railroads, their branches and connections, by rail, water and stage, from sunrise to sunset, and part the way back, through Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Arizona . ld Excelsior and the WhippleMills, now abandoned, except as a shelterfor a few Chinese miners, who work alongthe creek or *washee, washee for aliving. By looking away up the mountain sideon the left, westward, can be seen the rail-road-track where it runs along, first to thesouth, then back to the north, gaining alti-tude at each turn, in order to overcome theheavy grade and allow our train to runinto Central City. Rolling along, we pass several quartzmills; across the creek to the west bank,and along the road on the right, are locatedthe Reduction Works, conducted by These works are said to be thelargest in America, and the most weekly average value of gold, silver,copper and lead, amounts to $200,000; mostof the ores treated are purchased fromparties working mines in the vicinity, oron South Clear Smith Hill, it is 2 3-10 miles toBlack Hawk—a city of about 3,000 in-habitants, all of whom are engaged, inmining, directly or indirectly. The build-. DONNER LAKE BOATING PARTY. ings are sandwiched in between thegulches, ravines, mines, rocks, and pro-jecting mountain crags in the most irregu-lar manner. Gold, in pajdng quantities ^as first dis-covered in this section of
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