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start on the arrival of the morning train
from
shall take a run over this division, starting
from Sacramento. (See page 193.) See
also map on page 201, and schedule of time
in ANNEX No. 47.

Antelope—is 3.9 miles west. The
country is more level, and dotted here and
there with varieties of oaks. Passenger
trains do not stop, but pass on, and 6.42
miles further come to

Areade—a mere side-track.

Rolling down 4.56 miles from Arcade,
the train slowly crosses a long stretch of
elevated road, and then on to the Ameri-
can River Bridge, 3.36 miles east of Sacra-
mento—which spans the main stream of

the American River—and pass along by |

the orchards and gardens which fringe the
suburbs of the capitol of California, the
dome of which can be seen on the left, also
the State Agricultural Fair Grounds. The
long line of machine shops belonging to
the Railroad Company, on the left, are
passed, and then we come to the Sacra-
mento River, on the right, with its crowded
wharves, and stop at the city of

Sacramento— Until the spring of
1870, this was the western terminus of the
Grand Trans-Continental railroad. But
upon the completion of the Western Pa-
cific, from Sacramento to San Francisco,
the two roads were consolidated under the
name of the Central Pacific railroad of
California, making one unbroken line from
San Francisco to Ogden, 882 miles long.
The distance from Sacramento to Omaha
is 1,776.18 miles; Kansas City, 2,002 miles;
to Stockton, 50 miles; San Francisco,
138 miles; Vallejo, 60 miles; Marysville,
52 miles; Portland, Oregon, 642 miles.

The city is situated on the east bank of
the Sacramento River, south of the Ameri-
can, which unites with the Sacramento at
this point. It ic mostly built of brick ; the
streets are broad, well-paved, and bordered
with shade trees throughout a large por-
tion of the city. It contains numerous
elegant public and private buildings, in-
cluding the State Capitol and county build-
ings. Population, 22,000. Churches, of
all denominations, are numerous, as wellas

- public and private schools. There are two

orphan asylums; one Catholic, by the Sis-
ters of St. Joseph, and the other Protestant.
Secret orders are well represented, and
newspapers are also plentiful, chief of
which are the Record Union and the Bee,
both daily ; the Journal—German—is a

San Francisco, about 3 p.m. Weland the Res

tri-weekly ; the Leader, the Agriculturalist
cué, weeklies. The city is
lighted with gas and supplied with water
by two huge pumps in a building just
north of the depot—with a capacity of
90,000 gallons per hour.

Hotels are numerous, but the principal
ones are the Eagle, Arcade, Orleans and
Western. Free “Buses” convey passen-

rs from the depot toany of them, or,
they can ride past them all on the street
cars. In or near the city are located
four flouring mills, six iron works, two
potteries, smelting works, distilleries,
plow works, planing mills, and many other
small factories. The Capital Woolen Mills
are located here, and consist of main build-
ing, 216 by 60 feet, with extention 40 by 60
ft.; total number of spindles, 1,440; employ
tng 65 hands, and use 1,000 Ibs. of wool

aily.
The Johnson & Brady Wine Co. work
up 400 tons of grapes annually. The Sac-
ramento Beet Sugar Factory is near the
city—capacity. from 80 to 100 tons per day ;
main building, 150 by 63 feet. The fac-
tory grounds produce about 700 tons of beets
annually. The company employ, when
making sugar, 200 whites and 300 Chinese.

The principal machine shops of the
Central Pacific railroad are situated, as we
have seen, on the north side of the city, and
with the tracks, yards, etc., cover about 20
acres. The buildings first erected are of
wood, still standing and in use. The new
buildings are of brick, comprising a ma-
chine, car, paint and blacksmith shops,
round-house, and several other buildings.
Nearly all the cars used by the company
are manufactured here. Itisa noted fact
that the cars on both C. P. and U.P. KR. R.,
are far superior in size, style and finish to
those on the majority of the Eastern roads,
and for strength and completeness of
the arrangements for comfort in riding,
ae have no superior on any road.

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e hospital belonging to the Railroad |

Co., alarge, airy and comfortable build-
ing, is located near the shops, where their
men are taken care of when sick or dis-
abled. It is well conducted, a credit to
the company, and of incalculable benefit to
those unfortunates who are obliged to seek
its shelter.
As for the mercantile business, let a few
“figures talk”:
uring the year 1877 the aggregate
sales of all kinds of merchandise and
manufactured wares, exclusive of local in-

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