. 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 . ieaa very important Government despaich ar- rived for the Pacific Coast. Mounting hispony, he left for Julesburg, 140 miles dis-tant, where, on arriving, he met an impor-tant despatch from the Pacific; restingonly seven minutes, and, without eating, re-turned to Midway, making the roundtrip —280 miles—^in fourteen hours andforty-six minutes. The despatch reachedSacramento from St. Joseph, Mo., in eightdays, nine hours and forty minutes From Hidney it is 9 miles to BrOTiiiiSon—Passenger trains do notstop. The station was named after , who was with the Union Pacificfrom the first, and a long time their gen-eral ft-eight agent. The valley along hereis very narrow, with high r^cky biufis oneach side. It is 9 9-10 miles further to Potter—Large quantities of wood andties are usually stored here, which are ob-tained about 20 miles north of this point,on Lawrence Fv)rk and Spring Canyon,tributaries of the North Platte River. Pot-ter, a-though not a large place, is situated. FINGER ROCK, WEBER CANYON, UTAH. 44 CROFUTTS NEW OVERLAND TOURIST near a very large city, called Prairie Dog City—one of the larg-est cities on the whole line of the this point, and for several miles upand down t
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