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4.1 4.0 Prominent fork; keep right.
5.5 1.4 Fork; bear left. Avoid left-hand road 6.8.
7.8 2.3 Fork; bear right with travel. Thru prominent 4-corners 13.2.
Come onto old RR grade 16.5. Thru 4-corners 18.6. Cross dry
alkali lake 26.1. Pass well on left 46.5.
55.0 47.2 Fork; bear right. Thru diagonal 4-corners 56.8.
62.3 7.3 Fork; keep left. Bear right away from RR 62.6.
Sharp left across RR at 62.6 Is Route 298 to Fallon.
0.7 Diagonal 4-corners, just beyond wooden bridge over Truckee
63.0
river; bear left.
63.2 0.2 Right-hand road, just beyond RR; bear right along same.
63.3 0.1 Wadsworth,* P. O. on left. Keep ahead.
GARAGES—Wadsworth Garage, on So. side of highway.
63.7 0.4 Irregular 4-corners at foot of slight grade ; bear right. Follow
Truckee river thru canyon. Avoid left-hand road at Derby
Store 68.8. Cross RRs 70.0-71.0-81.6-83.4.
85.9 22.2 3-corners, just beyond RR; bear right along same.
86.0 0.1 Fork at foot of slight grade; bear right.
86.9 0.9 Fork; bear right with travel. Cross RR 87.2. Leave canyon
89.6.
89.9 3.0 Left-hand road; turn left across RR and right at end of road
beyond. Avoid left-hand road at farm house 92.2 and left-hand
road 92.8. Cross RRs 93.0.
93.3 3.4 Left-hand road; turn left.
93.9 0.6 Sparks,* bank on right. Keep ahead, joining trolley.
94.3 0.4 Irregular 4-corners; turn right away from trolley. Cross
94.5 0.2 4-corners; turn left. Same thorofare becomes 4th St.
switches 97.1.
Reno City Map and Points of Interest, page 312.
97.4 2.9 Virginia St.; turn left away from trolley. Cross RR 97.5.
97.6 0.2 RENO, Virginia & 2nd Sts., bank on left.
HOTELS—The Hotel Golden, 219 N. Center St.
Riverside Hotel, S. Virginia St. at the bridge.
GARAGES— Mack Bros., 128-34 N. Center St.
Reno Garage, Front & Center Sts.
Sierra Auto Supply Co.
Western Garage, 128 Lake St. ,T . . . _.
COMM. ORGAN.— Reno Commercial Club, 2nd & Virginia Sts.
‘Wadsworth, Nev. (pop. 800, alt. 4,077 ft.), is used for irrigating the lands. Fishing in Pyr-
situated on the Truckee river 34 miles east of amid lake is excellent. Three varieties of
Reno. It is in a mining region. It is an old trout are caught here, some of Which attain a
town and was one of the important stations weight of 30 pounds. At the mouth of the
on the original route of the Central Pacific, river is a reservation of the Piute tribe.
but the railroad now curves south of the town ‘Sparks, Nev. (pop. 3,500, alt. 4,225 ft.), is a
to secure a more even grade on the westward city of Washoe county, 3 miles east of Reno
climb. Wadsworth was at one time a trading on the Truckee river. It is the seat of Ne-
vada state university and of the state asylum
post and served as an Indian agency and fort.
The Truckee river, named in honor of an for mental diseases. There are mines in the
Indian guide of General Fremont, makes a vicinity. The town was named in honor of
bend to the north at Wadsworth and flows John Sparks, governor of Nevada, 1903-1906,
through a canyon for 20 miles to Pyramid and and is the second city in population in the
Winnemucca lakes, where its waters were state. Trains make a stop of 15-20 minutes at
formerly evaporated. Now by the government the repair shops here, where a huge moun-
irrigation project (see Fallon) they are turned tain-climbing locomotive is substituted for
into the reservoirs of the Carson river and the ordinary type.
are acceptable all the SEE -"^ooT
way between Love- PAGE
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locks and Reno.