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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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the shops is six box-fi-eight,and six flat cars per day, and two passenger, andone sleeping car per month. Twelve years ago,the work of the company at this point, was alldone in a little wooden building 24 by 100 feet,and with less men than there are now build-ings or departments. Last year a million and a half dollars was paidout for labor in these shops alone, and 4,000 tonsof iron consumed. Some of the buildings, likethe roundhouse, are of brick. This has 29 pitseach 60 feet long, with a circumference of 600feet. Some of the buildings have roofs or sidesof corrugated iron. Seven large under-groundtanks, 1,600 gallons each, are used for oil and2,000 gallons of coal oil, and 400 of sperm con-sumed every month. In connection with the shops, is a regularlyorganized and well-equipped fire-brigade, and intwo minutes the water of two steam fire-enginescan be directed to any point in the buildings. Soon a rolling mill will be erected, and uponthe location but lately pestilential. The whole
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246 wmm ^moiwm towmbw. coast will be laid imder further tribute to theseshops for the facilities of travel and commerce. Just before entering the depot you will crossthe track of the California Pacific Railroad, andsee the Sacramento River on the right. Sacramento.—Trains stop twenty minutesin the depot. This affords ample time to geta lunch at the Palace Saloon in the depot,or to visit the City and Capitol. Take oneof the free busses for the Capitol, GoldenEagle, Grand or Orleans Hotel, all first-class,comfortable and well patronized; or the street-cars will convey you near any of these. Theyleave the depot and go up K street—one lineto Third, along Third to O, along O to Twenti-eth, and along Twentieth to P, and the otherline, out K to Tenth, thence to H, and thenceto the Agricultural Park. The population of the city is about 20,000.The streets are regularly laid out, and beginningat the river or depot, with Front or First, arenumbered to Thirty-first, and the cioss-streetsare l

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