midday
There were few or no bridges or tunnels on the route . The railway turned around the sides of the mountains , and did not attempt to violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another . The train entered the State of Nevada through the Carson Valley about nine o'clock , going always northeasterly . At midday it reached Reno where there was a delay of twenty minutes for breakfast . From this point the road , running along Humboldt River , passed northward for several miles by its banks . Then it turned eastward , and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range , nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada . After breakfast , Mr. Fogg and his companions resumed their places in the car , and observed the varied landscape which unfolded as they passed along : the vast prairies , the mountains lining the horizon , and the creeks , with their frothy , foaming streams .