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Four months after completion, Promontory was a notorious boomtown of hotels, saloons, and gambling tents, with a few stores and shops. Transcontinental passengers changed trains there until mid-1870, and many fell victim to resident gamblers and con artists. Newspaperman J.H. Beadle wrote that the town stood 4,900 feet above sea level but, in his view, morally belonged far below it, calling it for its size the town on the road nearest the infernal regions.
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