Fifth Avenue to AlaskaG.P. Putnam's sons, 1884 - 329 páginas |
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Alaska beautiful began Book of Mormon called camp Cañon Capt CHAPTER chief Chinamen Chinese Columbia River dark distance east fall father feet high fire Firehole River fish forest four half head hill Hoodoo Mountains horses Hot Springs hundred feet hunters Indians Joseph Smith killed land latitude longitude look Lower Geyser Basin Mammoth Springs Merced River miles from Omaha miners Mormon morning never night Northern Pacific Old Reily Oregon Pacific Ocean Pacific road park passed polygamy Portland Puget Sound railroad reached rocks round running Salt Lake San Francisco scenery seen ship shore shot side Sitka snow soon steamer stream thing thirty thousand feet three hundred tion told took trail trees trout twelve twenty valley Vancouver's Island vast Victoria visited Wyatt yards Yellowstone Yellowstone Lake Yosemite Yosemite Valley
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Página 311 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said Company may adopt, through the Territories of the United States, and ten alternate sections of land per mile on each side of said railroad whenever it passes through any State...
Página 12 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Página 312 - ... at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Página 312 - ... and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections: ProOpinion of the Court.
Página 34 - WITNESSES Be it known unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, unto whom this work shall come: that we, through the grace of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, have seen the plates which contain this record, which is a record of the people of Nephi, and also of the Lamanites, their brethren, and also of the people of Jared, who came from the tower of which hath been spoken. And we also know...
Página 110 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom. Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings...
Página 311 - States, and may make and have a common seal ; and the said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph...
Página 64 - I ut the latter seems rather to belong to the Sierra than to the Yosemite. The Half Dome is in sight, in the distance, as we descend the Mariposa trail, but is not visible in the lower part of the Valley itself; it is seen first when we come to the meadow opposite Hutchings's.
Página 34 - Smith has shown unto us, for we have seen and hefted, and know of a surety, that the said Smith has got the plates of which we have spoken.
Página 63 - The fall is not in one perpendicular sheet. There is first a vertical descent of 1,500 feet, when the water strikes on what seems to be a projecting ledge; but which, in reality, is a shelf or recess, almost a third of a mile back from the front of the lower portion of the cliff. From here the water finds its way, in a series of cascades, down a descent equal to 626...