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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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ransferred over the bridge,and there is ample room for extension. Sleeping-Car Expenses.—The tariff totravelers is as follows, with all companies, andall in greenbacks : One berth, Xew York to Chicago, one and one-half (lavs, by any route, So 00 One berth, New York to Cincinnati, one and one-half days, by Pennsylvania Railroad, 4 00 One berth, Xew York to Cincinnati, one and one-half davs, by other routes, 5 00 One berth, New York to St. Louis, two days, by anv route, 6 00 One berth, Chicago or St. Louis to Omaha, by any route, 3 Oo One berth, Omaha to Ogden, by Pacific Railroad. 8 00 One beith, Ogden to San Francisco, by Central Pacific KailroaU, 6 00 All meals at all railroad dinlng-stations east of Otnaha, SO 75 Except dinners on Erie and New York Central, 1 00 All meals on Union Pacitic Railroad, 1 00 All meals on Central Pacitic Railroad, first day, currencv, 1 00 All meals on Central Pacific Railroad, at Colfax, coin, 75 All meals on Central Pacific Eailroad, Latbrop, coin, 50
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SCl.^h6 llH O-MAHA. l.-Gcneral View of Omaha and the rialte Valley. 2.-Post-Offlce. 3.-High School Building.4.- Grand Central Hotel. 5.—Missouri Hiver Bridge. THE ^aClFlC TQVSIST, 15 o:slab:a. Omaha occupies an exceedingly beautiful sit-uation, bold and commanding. Approachingthis city from the east, the broad ralley ofthe Missouri river first comes into view. Then,as you near Coimcil Bluffs, tlie great ironbridge which spans the liver is plainly visible.Behind it, looking to the west, is Omaha,covering a part of the low bottom lands, thehigher table lands, and the bluffs or lullsbeyond. On the cover of a book recently writ-ten by an English gentleman, on the advanta-ges, etc.. of Nebraska, there is a piciure. in gilt,of the Union Pacitic bridge. On the top of thispicture the following expressive legend isinscribed: To the Plains: To the Mountains:to the Pacific. This legend points the way,and means all it says. Omaha is the grand gateway through whichthe western tide of ti-avel and

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