The Pacific tourist - Williams' illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean - containing full descriptions of railroad routes A complete traveler's guide of (14574399849)

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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 ... A complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ...
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library



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d it. A shafthas been sunk from the ground level, and an-other vein of coal struck ten feet below the sui-face. We are miiuite in giving this descriptionof this coal mine, because it is claimed that thecoal it furnishes will coke, that it will give 50per cent. coke, and coke is the great demand ofthe smelting furnaces in the mining regions ofthis part of the Continent. It is claimed thatthe tests which have been applied to this coal,establish conclusively its coking qualities andovens for coking purposes have been put in.The work of the present year will, satisfactorilydetermine the question whether coking coal canbe found in the Rocky Mountains. The historyof rich mineral-producing regions is that themetals are usually (because cheaper) brought to the fuel instead of carrying the fuel to the metal.Hence if these coal mines are proved to producegood coke, a town of smelters must spring upnear by. Wahsafch,—a telegraph station, on the dividebetween Bear River Valley and Echo Canon. It
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ROCKS XEAR ECHO CITY.1.—Bromley8 Cathedral. 2.-Castlc Rock. 3.—The Great Eastern. 4.-Hanging Rock. WME ^^€£W£€ TQWmiUW. 115 is 968 miles trom Omaha, and reported to be6,879 feet above the level of the sea. The roadhere crosses a low pass in the Wahsatch Rangeof Mountains. As you ascend the beautiful val-ley leading to this station, the grim jieaks of theUintahs tower up in the distance on your left,while the adjoining hills shut out the higher ele-vations of the Wahsatch Range, on the north.Leaving Evanston, the road turns abruptly to the left, and the town and valley are soon lost tosight. Four miles out, on the left side of thetrack, the traveler will notice a sign put up on apost—the east side of which reads, Wyoming.the west side, Utah. Wahsatch was fornieilya terminus of a sub-division of the road, andcontained the regular dining-hall of the company,with roundhouse, machine and i-epair shops, etc.The water in the tank is supplied from a mount-ain spring near by, and a