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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

The VicePresident. Colfax Excursion Party

     Had the GUIDE, and Governor Bross writes in the Chicago Tribune of October 30:

     "Invaluable to all those who are making or who are about to make a trip to the Pacific Coast, or to any part of the line of the Continental Railway. We speak from experience when we say that the descriptions of the beautiful and sublime scenery along the route are accurate, perspicuous and graphic; neither too little or too much, but precisely what the traveler wishes to know. The new time table is always inserted as soon as issued, with the distances between stations and their elevation above the ocean—a most important and valuable feature. The illustrations are numerous and well done, and the publishers are adding to them every month. It is really wonderful how so much varied and important information could have been condensed into so small a compass and for so small a price

     We most cordially commend it to our readers, confident that if they buy it they will be pleased with their investment."

     "THE GREAT TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILROAD GUIDE is a worthy herald of such an achievement as the Pacific Railroad. Beside being a complete and authentic Guide in the strict sense of the term, it possesses the charm of a book of travels. It describes with sufficient minuteness each and every station on the Pacific Railroad between Sacramento and Omaha, including also a description of prominent places in the Territories through which the railroad passes. The traveler, with the GUIDE in his hand as a reference, knows exactly where he is, what places he passes, the mountains, rivers, and other matters which add to the value, and interest of travel."—Golden Era, San Francisco.

     "It is to the traveler on the Pacific Road what the compass is to the mariner at sea."—Odd Fellows Excursion Party.

     "Is replete with information of the greatest importance to the settler regarding the character of the soil, the people, wealth, prosperity, climate, agricultural and mineral resources of the country, so eagerly sought after by those seeking therein a home. In brief, it is a condensed history of the great mineral and wealth-teeming country that has been bound closer to our own in an indissoluble bond of iron, which will prove of incalculable benefit to both in the numerous avenues of trade, commerce and thought. We commend it with pleasure."—Art Journal, Chicago.

     "This is the most complete work of the kind we have ever seen. It is well filled with interesting and valuable statistics in relation to travel, trade and commerce of the West, thus enabling the traveler to obtain a larger amount of information by reference to its pages than he would probably obtain in any other way. We heartily commend it to the public."—Journal, Kansas City.

FROM THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE
MORMON CHURCH.

     "It is just such a guide as is needed by all travelers on the great Pacific Railroad. It is very different from the usual railway time-tables, being discursive and descriptive, and, so far as relates to this city and Territory, is singularly correct."—Deseret Evening News, Salt Lake City.

     "It is the most complete railroad reference we have ever seen. It is indispensable to the traveler who desires to go to the Pacific."—Chicago Tribune.

     "This book seems, indeed, to come at the right time. It gives information concerning a country that just now has a universal interest—is more than a simple railroad guide."—Chicago Times.

     "They have, so far as possible, made each place a particular subject of study, and in a brief, judicious and carefully prepared sketch, have given a very clever idea of its importance. Statistics are abundant, so that the reader can know of himself the present condition of the places described. Most of the prominent features in local prosperity are mentioned, and even minutely dwelt upon—the writer, as it appears, aiming rather at a clear, truthful statement than an overdrawn picture."—Chicago Republican.

     "We can assure strangers, and even old residents here, that they can obtain more information regarding this country, from a perusal of this interesting book, than from any other similar source."—Cheyenne Leader.

     "The work is not only valuable to the tourist, but to those desiring to inform themselves in relation to matters connected with this great transcontinental thoroughfare."—Sentinel, Milwaukee.

     "They are old travelers and explorers of the regions lying west of Missouri river. Enjoying superior advantages, they have condensed the results of their experience in a readable and pleasing manner in the book before us."—Daily Examiner, San Francisco.

     "A new and admirably gotten up hand book. This volume is illustrated and descriptive of every place of interest "from Ocean to Ocean," but particularly so of Colorado and the overland Territories. It should be owned by everybody interested in the West, as it embodies a cyclopedia of facts and entertaining sketches never before published about the Path of Empire."—Rocky Mountain Herald, Denver.

     "Its value to the tourist or stay-at-home consists in its full description of the great Pacific Railroad."—Bulletin, Des Moines, Iowa.

     "The work is valuable for reference, as it coutains descriptions of towns, lakes, mountains, springs, etc., on the line of the Pacific Railroad, and other information of great interest to the traveler."—Daily Bee, Sacramento.

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