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364 and second-class passengers in proportion. The stage-fare from Kelton to Umatilla, on the Columbia River, is $60, coin; time, four days; fifty pounds of baggage allowed; meals extra. Except in cases where immigrants are furnished with wagons and teams of their own, it is quite as cheap, and decidedly easier, to go to San Francisco, and thence to Portland by steamer. Persons living in the interior, away from the principal lines of travel, will find it to their advantage to send to New York, Chicago, or Omaha, for through tickets. The particular route desired to travel should be carefully specified, and the money sent through some banking-house.

From Europe to San Francisco the following is the cost of travel, estimated in gold coin:

"The Liverpool and Great Western Steamship Company sell through tickets to Sau Francisco, from the several European sea-port towns, at rates as follows:

Passengers are forwarded from New York by the boats of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, via Panama. Steamers leave Liverpool and Queenstown once a week. Steerage passengers are supplied on the ocean passage with medical attendance and good, substantial food, free of cost. Owing to the fluctuations in gold in New York, the cost of forwarding passengers from that point to San Francisco is not always the same: hence the through rates from Europe are liable to some variation, though not more than a few dollars; and in any case, emigrants from Europe will find this much the cheaper route.

In case emigrants from Europe should prefer to cross the American continent by rail, the following rates of fare to the