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 (14574692028)

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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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urn afour horse teamand wagon with-o u t difficulty.The extent ofthe outer part ofthe cave is about40 feet, where ahuge fallen rockprecludes f u r -ther access with -out inconven-ience. The lakeand its mount-ain islands, andthe ranges be-yond, now comegrandly intoview on thenorth side ofthe track.The next sta-tion is Black Rock,—17 1-2 milesfrom Salt LakeC i t y,—a s t a -tion named froma rock, darkenough to be called black, rising in the lakeabout 100 yards from the shore. It is nearlyflat on the top, and with a little effort can beeasily ascended. Jutting out from the shore,and a short distance from the station, is LionsHead Rock. Beyond this is ObservationPoint, from which the Goose Creek Mountains,145 miles north, can be seen in a clear day, withtheir white peaks glistening in the sunlight.The northern point of the Oquirrh Range herecomes close to the lake, and what seems to be afew scattering trees, or groves of trees, high tipon the mountain, contain millions of feet of pine
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BLACK ROCK.—GREAT SALT LAKE lumber, if it could only be made available.Right under Observation Point, on the veryedge of the lake shore stands a stone house,formerly kept as a hotel for pleasure seekers, butnow the private property of John W. Young,Esq. Whoever occupies it hereafter, can verynearly be rocked in the cradle of the deep, or,at least, be lulled to sleep by the murmur of therestless waves. Standing upon ObservationPoint, before you, a little to the left, rises therock from which the station is named; beyondand to the left still, Kimballs Island rises out ofthe sea twenty-two miles away; while off to the right is ChurchIsland, 14 milesaway : they donot look half thedistance, butthe rarified at-mosphere ofthese elevatedportions of theContinent isvery deceptiveas regards visionand distance.PromontoryPoint on thenorth shoreof the lake isalso visible at adi stance ofabout eightymiles. Lake Point,—20 miles fromthe city is thenext station andthe great resortfor excursionparti