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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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ee feet^ and hasprospicts for an extensive business in the future.Its general route is westward until it passes the.southerimiost joint of the Great Salt Lake, andthen southwaid, along the western base of the0ed en the westernslope of those mountains. Leaving Salt LakeCity, on a heavy dow nward grade of ninety-fivefeet to the mife, but which is short, the roadcrosses the River Jordan on acrnimon pile bridge,and then over a barren sage biush country-, un-til it reaches Millstone Point.—near the base of themountains, and 11 1-2 miles frrm Salt LakeCity. This place is named frem the fact thatthe first millstones used in gritiding grain inItah, were quarried from the mountains rearthis jtoint. The old overland stage road fn mSalt Lake City to California pa-sses along theline of the road, as does one line of the WesternInion Telegraph Company, to the present ter-minus of the road. The station is of no partic-
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TSE eiiClFlC IQliHSr. 149 ular importance, anrl beyond the incident men-tioned, IS without a history. We are now at thebase of the Ocjuirrh Kanjije, and tlie first stationof the Old Statue Company where they changedhorr?es is jMjinted out to the traveler on the southside of the road. Beyond Millstone Point, al)outtwo miles on the south side of the track, is alarge spring, which furnishes a gfX)d supply ofwater, and wiiich has been utilized by a dairy-man. A little beyond this spring on the same8ide of the track, there is, in the first point ofrocks, quite an extensive cave which a shepherduses as a slplter fo his sheep, during the inclem-ent season ofthe year. A railfence with gatesurrounds theentrance to thecave, and it issaid to be largeenou.jh to turn afour horse teamand wagon witli-out difficulty.The extent ofthe outer part ofthe cave is alx)ut40 feet, where ahuge fallen rockprecludes fur-ther access with-o u t inconven-ience. The lakeand its mount-ain i)>lands, andthe ranges b

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