Tour of the St. Elmo's: From the Nutmeg State to the Golden GateMeriden Book-bindery, 1883 - 217 pages |
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Page 130 - Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles, the Town of the Queen of the Angels.
Page 192 - York a much greater number of distressed tenants, in proportion to the population, than in any other city of the Union. They cannot procure a small temporary loan, for the plain and simple reason, that the friends who readily accommodate them on other occasions find it sufficiently difficult to pay their own rents on this. It is certainly a bad system ; but it is, perhaps, impossible to devise an adequate remedy. SPRING...
Page 100 - Mountains ; they are six miles from the main line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Page 69 - We run right straight toward a perpendicular wall, and as we are about to strike, the little locomotive pokes its nose to one side and we are whipped around a sharp curve, all on the up hill principle. We are beside a foaming stream which is also all the time
Page 79 - Its streets are regularly and handsomely laid out ; its public and business edifices and its private residences are elegant and substantial ; schools, churches and newspapers abound, and in short, Denver has every sign of thrift, enterprise, wealth and progress. The new Union Depot is one of the finest edifices for railway uses in America, and the magnifi cent new opera house, which cost $600,000, is another structure which will challenge admiration.
Page 178 - ... orifices, thence through the alkali lake ; then we pass caldrons of black, sulphurous, boiling water, some moving and spluttering with violent ebullition. One white sulphur spring we found quite clear, and up to the boiling point. On every foot of ground we had trodden, the crystalline products of this unceasing chemical action abounded. Alum, magnesia, tartaric acid, epsom salts, ammonia, nitre, iron and sulphur abounded.
Page 78 - Pike's Peak in the southern part of the range and Long's Peak in the north, is indescribably grand. The "Queen City of the Plains" was born of the Pike's Peak gold excitement in 1858-9.
Page 101 - Fe (18 miles from the main line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" railroad), is the territorial capital, and the most ancient city within the domain of the United States.
Page 20 - Fresh surprises greet the traveler on every hand, until, at the end of a day's journey, one retraces his way over the mountains, through...
Page 162 - California street is the Wall street, and Market street the Broadway, of the city.