Excerpt from Salt Lake City: With a Sketch of the Route of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads, From Omaha to Salt Lake City, and From Ogden to San Francisco Of Omaha it is enough to say that it is destined to expand into very considerable proportions. It is connected by railway with the principal towns of Illi nois, Kentucky, Colorado, and Kansas has a large river trade; and is an important prairie depot. It is situ ated on the right bank of the Missouri, opposite Council Bluffs, and twenty miles northward of the mouth of the River Nebraska. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.