The Pacific tourist (1877) (14780877483)

Identifier: pacifictourist1877will (find matches)
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
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to theleft you will no-tice the firstbench of landacross the river,with a higherbench or terracein the rear.Upon this firstbench, the Mor-risite massacretook place in1862, an accountof which weshall give in an-other place.Leaving Uintah,the road pursuesits way in ageneral norther-ly directionalong the base ofthe mountains,till it arrives atOf/den,—the-WEBER CANOK. wBstem termi- nus of the Union Pacific Railroad, 1,033.8 milesfrom Omaha, and 4,340 feet above the level ofthe sea. By agreement between the two roads,it is also the eastern terminus of the CentralPacific Railroad. The place is one of con-siderable importance, being the second city insize and population in the Territory of Utah.It is regularly laid out, is the county-seat ofWeber County, has a court-house of brick,which, with grounds, cost about $20,000, twoor three churches and a Mormon tabernacle.The town may properly be divided into twoparts — upper and lower Ogden. The upperpart is pleasantly situated on an elevated
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SCENES IN WEBER CANON. 1.—Ogden. Utah. Wahsatch Mountains in the distance. 2.—Devils Gate and High Peaks of Wahsatch Mountains. 3.—Heights of Weber Canon. 4.—Tunnel No. 3, Weber Canon. 128 wmm ^m€iFi€ w@wMmw. bench adjoining the mountains. This benchbreaks rather abruptly, and almost forms a bluff,and then begins lower Ogden. The upper partis mostly occupied for residences, and has somebeautiful yards with trees now well grown. Thelower portion—that which is principally seenfrom the railroad, is mostly occupied by businesshouses. One peculiarity of the towns in thesewestei-n or central Territories, is the runningstreams of water on each side of nearly everystreet, which are fed by some mountain stream,and from which water is taken to irrigate theyards, gardens and orchards adjoining the dwell-ings. Ogden now has fully 6,000 people, and hasa bright future before it. It is not only the ter-minus of the two great trans-continental linesbefore mentioned, but is also the star