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AMUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. 



JIECHAJSriCS AISID USEFUL AETS. 



PACIFIC RAILROAD TIME TABLE. 



The following statement of time and distances is given by the 

 •* Western Railroad Gazette " : — 



Miles. Hours. 



New York to Chicago, 111 911 3G^ 



Chicago to Omaha, Nebraska, 491 '2ih 



Omaha to Bryan, 858 43" 



Bryan to Ogdcn, Utah, 233 10^ 



Ogden to Elko, Nevada, via Central Pacific R. R., . . . 278 12^ 



Elko to Sacramento, Cal., via Central Pacific R. R., . . . 465 31 



Sacramento to San Francisco, via Western Pacific R. R., . 117 3^ 



3,353 ]61i 



Thus a total distance of 3,353 miles is made, according to the 

 present schedule time, in 6 days and 17^ hours, actual time, by a 

 traveller's watch, from which we deduct o^ hours, difference of time, 

 when going West, leaving the apparent time consumed in mak- 

 ing the trip 6 days and 14 hours. 



At San Francisco the mails will connect with the various steam- 

 ship lines running on the Pacific, and may be landed at Honolulu 

 in d days from that city, or 15^ days from New York. They can 

 v'^ach Japan in 19 days from San Francisco, or 2oi dajs from 

 New York, or 33 to 34 days from Great Britain — thus beating 

 the Briti.^h mails sent via Suez, 3 to 4 weeks. The trip 

 between Yokohama, Japan, and either Hong Kong or Shanghai, 

 is readil}^ accomplished by the Pacific Mail steamships in from 

 5 to 6 days, which, added to the time in reaching Japan, will 

 give the through time necessary to reach either of the above- 

 named ports of China. 



The mails for Australia, it is thought, will hereafter go via 



