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CROFUTT’S NEW OVERLAND TOURIST

CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL ROAD
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CALIFORNIA.

SCALE 200 MILES TO 1 INGH

PROFILE

HOR. SCALE 206

MILES TO LINCH.

WERT. SCALE 0.000 FEET TO 1 INCH

HUMBOLDT R,

G6 SACRAMENTO

h more deep rock cuts we wind

montory Mountain until the
| lake is lost to view. Up, up we go, the

engine puffing and snorting with its ardu-
ous labors, until the summit is gained, and
we arrive at the former terminus of the two
Pacific railroads—8.93 miles from Blue
Creek.

_Promontory—clevation, 4,905 feet;
| distance from Omaha 1,084 miles; from
| San Francisco 8380 miles—is celebrated for
being the point where the connection be-
tween the two roads was made on the 10th
of May, 1869.

This town, formerly very lively, is now
almost entirely deserted. e supply of
water is obtained from a spring about four
miles south of the road, in one of the
guiches of Promontory Mountain.

The bench on which the station stands
would doubtless produce vegetables or
grain, if it could be irrigated, for the sandy
soil is largely mixed with loam, and the
bunch grass and sage-brush grow lux-
uriantly.

Throu
around

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4749 | MATLIN

 

The Last Spike—On Monday, the
10th day of May. 1869, a large party was
congregated on Promontory Point, Utah
Territory, gathered from the four quarters
of the Union, and, we might say, from the
four quarters of the earth. ere were
men from the pine-clad hills of Maine,
the rock-bound coast of Massachusetts,
the everglades of Florida, the Sop
shores of the Pacific a from China,
Europe, and the wilds of the American
continent. There were the lines of blue-
clad boys, with their burnished muskets
and glistening bayonets, and over all, in
the bright May sun, floated the glorious
old stars and stripes, an emblem of unity,
power and prosperity. They are grave,

earnest men, most of them, who are gath-—

ered here; men who would not leave their
homes and business and traverse half or
two-thirds of the continent only on the
most urgent necessity, or on an occasion of
great national importance, such as they
might never hope to behold again. It was
ito witness such an event, to be present at