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 (14738426796)

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Title: 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, U.S. 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

Year: 1877 (1870s)

Authors: Williams, Henry T

Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company

Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ge,all combine pleasing and impressive features,and are thoroughly built and costly erections.The building, corner of California and Mont-gomery Streets, occupied by Wells, Fargo & CosExpress, was the first substantial erection in thecity. It was imported from China, where thestone was all cut and fitted, ready for its place. One feature of San Francisco architecture isbay-windows. Few private houses are without proportion of the population live in lodgings and go out for their meals. The tendency to a more settled mode of life, however, increases, and a great number of private dwellings have been erected by individuals and building associations, of late years. The Real Estate Associates build i and sell on an average a house a day, and have ; done so for three years past. They build by days work, in the rough style, chiefly houses of six and eight rooms, and sell them for one-fifth I cash, and the remainder in 72 monthly install- 1 ments, based on 9 per cent, interest for the de-

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HOODLUMS. them, and the last built hotels, the Grand, thePalace, and Baldwins, have their whole surfacestudded with them, to the great comfort of theirguests, and equal defacement of their externalappearance. San Francisco is called the BayCity. It might well be named the bay-win-dow city. The mildness of the climate and theinstinctive craving for sunshine, are considera-tions which will always make bay-windows adesirable and a favorite feature here. A stranger will observe here the great numberof restaurants and furnished lodgings. A large ferred pavment. Most of the uniformly builtblocks of detached houses in the city, were builtby them. They always built detached houses,which are safer in case of fires. A great conflagration may overtake any city,but this is more secure than its wooden appear-ance indicates. Owing to the dampness fromsummer fogs and winter rains, and the liabilityof injury by earthquakes, wood is the only desir-able material for dwellings. Nearly all used isthe sea

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1877

Harold B. Lee Library

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