AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE.

 

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DEVIL’s SLIDE, WEBER CANYON, UTAH.

same length of time for breakfast. The
eating-house is on the right or north side
of the track, in a large, new building, and
the meals served are very good. It is
claimed that this town will become a great
railroad center—it may; when it does we
shall be pleased to record the fact. One
thing is certain, the bridge over the Platte
River to the south, and the one over Loupe
Fork to the northward, has had a tendency
to center a large amount of trade at this
point.

The Union Pacific Railroad Company
have located here machine and repair
shops, round-house, etc., being the end of
the first power division west of Omaha.

This station was named after Grand Is-
land in the Platte River, two miles distant,
one of the largest in the river, being about

 

Chinese Cheap Labor—‘‘ Work for nothing and
board yourself’—from the inhabitants of your
neighbor's hen-roost.

80 miles in length by four in width. The
Island is well wooded—cottonwood princi-
pally. Itis a reservation held bythe Gov-
ernment, and is guarded by soldiers.
When the rosd was first built to Grand
Island, buffalo were quite numerous, their
range extending over 200 miles to the
westward. In the spring, these animals
were wont to cross the Platte, from the Ar-
kansas and Republican valleys, where they
had wintered, to the northern country, re-
turning again, sleek and fat, late in the
fall; but since the country has become
sett'ed, few, if any, have been seen. In
1860, immense numbers were on_ these
plains on the south side of the Platte, near
Fort Kearny, the herds being so large
that often emigrant teams had to stop
while they were crossing the road. At

 

It is said that in San Francisco the people can
drink, and carry more without staggering, than in
any city of the world.