The Pacific tourist (1879) (14574686908)

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Title: The Pacific tourist

Year: 1876 (1870s)

Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E

Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel

Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams

Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library

Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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as apopulation of nearly I.OUO persons. KtTt»rtshave been made by Mr. Fields and a few- morning last year; here is Solomons templepetrified. said she, as she gave him anothershake. The old geiithnian ndibed hi.; eyes, gaveanother yawn, and finally looked out, to see whatexcites the curiosity of every traveler, as hearrives at this place. Sure enough: it .eems asthough .«ome great temple once stood here, orseveral of them, and in t4ie wrecks of time, lefttheir gigantic pillars standing, as a reminder oftheir former greatness. Tin- Greeti Iliver.—The peculiar color ofthis river is not ow ing to the fact of any discolora-tion of the water : that, when the banks of tliestream are not filled by freshet.s of itself or someof its tributaries, is very pure and sweet, and ofthe usual color of clear water, but is owing tothe green shale through which it runs. a<id whichcan readily be seen in the bluffs in the vicinityand for quite a distance up Blacks Fork, and 102 WME ^m€iFia TQW^iBW.

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PETRIFIED FISH CUT, GREEN RH LR. which is supposed to contain arsenic or chlorideof copper, which becomes detached by drainageand fastens itself to the pebble stones and bot-tom of the stream, causing the water, as youlook into it, to bear the same color. This riverrises in the Wyoming and Wind River Mount-ains, is fed by numerous tributaries, and flowsin a general southerly direction, until it uniteswith the Colorado River. The scenery along itsbanks, most always rugged, in some places issublime. Where it is crossed by the railroad, itsvalley is narrow, enclosed on either side by highbluffs, which have been washed into numerousfanciful shapes by the storms of time, andwhich are crowned, in many instances, by col-ums, or towers, forcibly reminding one of thetowers, battlements and castles, spoken of inthe old feudal times. Its tributaries, nearlyall have narrow fertile valleys, which are be-ing occupied by stockmen, and which affordboth hay and shelter for stock. South ofthe railroad,

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