The Pacific tourist (1876) (14757847101)

Identifier: pacifictourist1876will (find matches)
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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the shops is six box-freight,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 GO 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 WME ^m€IFI€ W&W^iBW. coast will be laid under furtlier tribute to theseshops for the facilities of travel and commerce. Just before entering the depot you will crossthe track of California Pacific Railroad, and seethe 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 dejjot,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 tha 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 tha Agricultural Park. Th3 population of the city is about 20,000.The streets aie regularly laid out, and beginningat the river or depot, with Front or First, arenumbered to Thirty-first, and the cross-stre