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"The Most Beautiful Train in America" is Southern Pacific's streamlined "Daylight." Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the "Daylight" follows the Route of the Missions as it glides for over 100 miles along the shores of the Pacific, climbs picturesque California mountains and streaks across fertile valleys. Costing over one million dollars each, the colorful streamliners are the latest in rail comfort and safety. Features include the novel Coffee Shop and unique Tavern Car. Proof of the ''Daylight's'' popularity is its world's record for the number of passengers carried.

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Southern Pacific's streamline train, the "Daylight," which makes a daily dawn-to-dusk flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco. For more than a hundred miles the train passes along the shore of the Pacific, with matchless views of rolling surf and distant ships.

Yosemite Falls. Yosemite National Park. California

Yosemite, gem of all our National playgrounds, is reached by the Southern Pacific and Yosemite Transportation System, via Merced. The route leads up the picturesque Merced River Gorge, past Merced Falls to Yosemite Valley.

Yosemite Valley lies farther up, the river, a deep-cleft canyon with sheer precipices, mountains of granite, tremendous waterfalls and giant trees. It is a region of indescribable grandeur. No trip to the Great West is complete without a visit to this remarkable playground In the Mariposa Grove of Big tees, reached by stage from Yosemite Valley, are majestic sequoias four hundred feet in height. the oldest living things on earth.

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The greatest of granite precipices, known among the Indians as "Tutockanulah," or Great Chief of the Valley, rises in almost perpendicular ascent thirty-five hundred feet. Its stupendous bulk can be seen fifty miles away. Sixteen hundred acres are held up in its surface.

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Palm Springs is a winter tourist resort with ideal surroundings, clear air and bright sunshine. It is situated on the edge of the desert at the foot of San Jacinto Mountains (elevation 10,805 feet.) The mineral hot springs possess wonderful curative properties. Palm Canyon seven miles southwest, is filled with ancient palms, that seem to literally grow out of the rocks. By what hands planted is a mystery. These trees are the ancestors of many of the ornamental palms that grace California's gardens and boulevards.

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Many summer resort places with mountain hotels and cottages or log cabins for camping parties are situated along the river in the beautiful Sacramento Canyon. This view of Mt. Shasta is had towards the north from southbound trains in the vicinity of Castella while directly to the west the gray splintered granite spires of Castle Crags towering 2 084 feet from their base appears like some medieval castle.

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As we start the climb towards Dunsmuir along the banks of the Sacramento River, that part of the river where it begins to look like a trout stream, we can see the gray splintered granite spires of Castle Crags, towering 2,084 feet from their base, these massive rocks appear like some crumbling medieval castle. They can be reached by horseback from Castle Crags Hotel, situated in a rolling meadow east of the "Crag's."

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Stretching away from the city for miles are rank on rank of fragrant orange and lemon trees.

Riverside itself seems a great orange grove; situated in the heart of the Orange Empire, reached by the Pacific Electric Railway, Lines. At Riverside, in the patio of the famous Glenwood Mission Inn, can be seen an old orange tree, brought from Brazil in 1870, one of the two trees from which sprang the million of navel orange trees in California.

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Pebble Beach is on the shore of beautiful Carmel Bay, located on the Monterey Peninsula five miles from Monterey. In the Carmel-Valley is the Mission San Carlos, most loved of all the Missions by Padre Junipero Serra and where he is buried. California people of the present day also appreciate the beauty and charm of this delightful spot and the park like country surrounding Carmel Bay has developed into a wonderful place of country residences. Besides the charming homes located here are comfortable hotels attractively situated.

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Twice as big, twice as powerful, twice as luxurious is the giant new "City of San Francisco"

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Believed to be the largest group of caverns in the world, the Carlsbad Caverns, located in south-eastern New Mexico, stand today one of the greatest natural wonders of the world.

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The Tehachapi Loop on Southern Pacific's San Joaquin Valley line between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is a triumph of railroad engineering. Here, in order to reach the summit on a minimum grade, the railroad line makes a complete circle around a hill, and by means of a tunnel, crosses itself in a loop. Shown here is the San Joaquin Daylight, luxurious streamline train operating on this route.

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The most remarkable trip in Arizona, leading for 120 miles through the heart of Apacheland, past the great Roosevelt Dam, through a region rich in prehistoric relics, Spanish and Indian history and legends, yet doubly rich in the rugged grandeur of its mountain and rock masses. Cliffs and peaks, and the maze of tortuous canyons viewed as the road winds over the higher summits will thrill the beholder.

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Giant Sahuaro (pronounced Sa-war-o) most grotesque of plant life is only one of a large number of plants found along the Apache Trail. In the spring time bright desert flowers and bloom laden shrubs carpet hillside and mesa, starry eyed asters, desert arcadia, the Palo Verde with yellow blossoms like Scotch broom, the cat's claw with fluffy, cream colored flowers, and others. Among the many varieties of cacti, besides the Giant Cactus, are the Yucca Gloriosa or Spanish bayonet, the Octilla or coach whip, the sharp needled Cholla (Choya) and the prickly pear.

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Stock-raising in Arizona is the second industry in importance taking rank next to mining The climate peculiarly promotes the growth of forage, and fully 50,000,000 acres of the public domain are adapted to grazing.

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John Muir, the great naturalist and mountaineer, wrote, "I have seen something of nearly all mountain chains in the world, and have experienced their varied climates and attractions of forests and rivers, lakes and meadows, etc., in fact I .have seen a little of the high places of the continents, but no mountain range seems to me so kind, so beautiful or so fine in its sculpture as the Sierra Nevada."

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In all the 1013 acres comprising Golden Gate Park there is no more beautiful path than that bordered by the Rhododendrons, just off the South Drive. From May until late summer these evergreen shrubs and colorful rose-like flowers attract thousands of visitors.

This is one of hundreds of varieties of plant life from all parts of the world that flourish here in the open air. One would never believe that at one time this garden was a desert, yet in 1890, when the reclamation of the area commenced, it was a desolate expanse of windswept sand hills.

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At Mt. Shasta Station, Mount Shasta is but 15 miles to the east, and for many miles is in plain view from the car window. It arises to an elevation of 14,380 feet above sea level, and is perpetually snow capped and glacier enameled. The train winds around its base and the great mountain remains in view for four hours or more, affording the nearest car window view of any California mountain of such magnitude and beauty.

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California is as much the home of the vine as France. Practically every known variety of grape is grown in the state. Wine and table grapes are grown in abundance, vineyards here ruining from five acres to three thousand. Raisin vineyards range from five to five hundred acres and are kept in the highest state of cultivation.

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Mt. Tamalpais, a compound of two Indian words meaning Bay Mountain, lifts a protecting shoulder 2600 feet high, dominating San Francisco Bay and the surrounding country. Its summit offers one of the most magnificent panoramas of sea and land to be seen anywhere on the earth's surface.

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The Big Trees, as they are popularly called, are found only in California. Their scientific name is Sequoia, in honor of Sequoah a Cherokee Indian, who designed an alphabet for his tribe. There are two varieties, Sequoia Sempervirens or Redwood, found on the ocean side of the Coast Range, and the Sequoia Gigantea, the real big tree, found only on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, usually at an elevation of 4500 to 7500 feet. Estimates of the age of the Big Trees vary from the beginning of the Christian era to a period antedating that epoch by 4000 years; the secret of their age has not yet been discovered, but an undisputed fact is that they are the oldest living things in all the world. They are thought by John Muir to be descendants of trees once existing in great forests, widely dispersed all over the world, but which perished during the glacial age, everywhere save in the Sierra Nevada, where they are protected by the topography of the mountains. The great glacial rivers swept past them, and left them to our wonder and admiration.

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The Mariposa Grove of Big Trees is reached from Yosemite Valley by auto stage through Wawona, on the southern boundary of the Park or by auto stage a from Merced. Here stand over six hundred fine specimens of the Sequoia Gigantea. The giant trees range from 15 to 30 feet in diameter and many of them exceed 300 feet in height. The Big Tree Wawona 227 feet high, has a 26-foot archway in its trunk through which the auto road passes.

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The San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge between the cities of San Francisco and Oakland, was built at a cost of $71,000,000. The bridge, including its approaches, is 8 1/4 miles long, the longest bridge in the world. There are two decks, the upper 58 feet wide and carrying six passenger automobiles abreast. The lower deck has three lanes for heavy trucks and two tracks for interurban electric trains.

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To the pioneers of '49 this was known as "Twelve-Mile Canyon," and was a part of the old emigrant trail. Here the Humbolt River flows between precipitous walls rising hundreds of feet. These walls of lava rock present peculiar formations, and in general appearance they are strikingly similar to the famed Palisades of the Hudson, which suggested their name.

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The historic Rio Grande rises among the mountains of Colorado, flows south and is the National boundary between the United States and Mexico from El Paso to the Gulf. El Paso, largest of the cities on our southern frontier, is the door into Mexico.

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Fishermen's Wharf in San Francisco is like a section of Naples lifted bodily and transplanted in this country. Here the Italian fishermen who populate this fascinating section of the city hold sway. To the wharf are moored dozens of fishing boats, painted a brilliant blue to insure the Virgin's favor. Diminutive restaurants dot the street where all. kinds of fish, fresh from the sea, may be purchased, cooked to the buyer's taste and eaten on the spot. Crabs are boiled to new deliciousness in sidewalk cauldrons.

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Set upon the hills overlooking the broad waters of its harbor, San Francisco's beauty of situation marks it as one of the favored cities of the world. It occupies the northern end of a peninsula with the Pacific on the west and the Bay of San .Francisco on the east, the famed Golden Gate joining them. Across the Golden Gate rises Mount Tamalpais, while across the bay to the eastward are the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and Richmond, with their hills beyond. San Francisco's location marks it out as a .great seaport, the gateway to the Orient and to the territory made accessible by the Panama Canal. Important as a manufacturing city, great in its position as the social and economic metropolis of the West, it is to commerce above all that San Francisco owes its prosperity. The Bay of San Francisco is the largest land-locked harbor in the world, with ample room for all the ships of all nations to ride at anchor. The water area is 450 square miles. It is almost seventy miles long and from four to ten miles wide. Its shores are lined with wharves, warehouses and factories. The bay is spanned by two giant bridges, one crossing the Golden Gate and leading to Marin County and the North; the other to Oakland, Berkeley and other East Bay cities.

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Southern Pacific's Overland Route between San Francisco and Chicago, crosses the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, presenting to the traveler some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in the West. From sea level at San Francisco the line makes a gradual climb until 195 miles east, at an elevation of 6,880 feet, the summit of the mountains' is reached. Dense forests of pine are penetrated, with occasional glimpses of shimmering mountain lakes, and as the train winds through the mountains the traveler thrills at a succession of beautiful and awe-inspiring views including the famous Sugar Bowl Winter Sports Playground.

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To the south of Lake Tahoe lies lofty Mt. Tallac, its upper slopes marked at times with a snowy cross. A day spent in climbing this majestic mountain will never be forgotten. The way is full of varied interests, mountain streams and mountain lakes, mountain flowers and trees and shrubs. A constantly changing panorama as the trail ascends until at last the summit is reached and the emerald and blue mirror of Lake Tahoe lies spread before you. The view Beggars description, but if once seen remains in one's mind forever.

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The full beauty of Lake Tahoe is realized only after making the 72-mile circuit of its shore over a fine highway; unfolding a panorama of green meadows and sandy beaches fragrant pineries reaching the lake's brink, rugged cliffs and promontories and mountain crests towering four thousand feet above the water. At Rubicon: Point the cliff g plunge sheer info deep water of. aquamarine c loring. Around the point lies Emerald Bay, which once was a separate lake, say the Indians. It is three miles long by half a mile wide, the thickly wooded shores giving the bay its name, the water mocking the trees so closely that it is difficult to tell the line between reflection and reality.

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Eight miles west of Trucker, near the summit of the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the Overland Route, a most remarkable view is to be had of Donner Lake, which lies directly beneath the railroad on the north. This lake is three miles long, one mile wide and 483 feet deep. It is one of the most picturesque Alpine lakes in California and was named after the ill-fated Donner party of emigrants, who in the year 1846 were snow-bound while camping on its shores, many of them perishing from starvation. A large statue has been erected to their memory at the east end of the lake.

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A popular form of vacation is the guest ranch, usually a cattle ranch, receiving paying guests who desire to live for a while in the open, ride horseback and indulge in the other interesting activities of life on the range.

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The best view of Vernal Falls is from the bridge across the Merced on the "Long Trail" to Glacier Point. The river is nearly eighty feet wide and drops shear 350 feet, The spray is driven out like smoke, and everything-plant and grass, moss and fern, is kept vividly green by the incessant baptism.

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Oakland is the third city in size in California and has a population over 400,000.

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One of the most remarkable of the scenic regions of the West is Crater Lake National Park, lying sixty miles north of the California-Oregon boundary in the Cascade Range. Crater Lake is situated at an elevation of 6,177 feet above sea level: and is rimmed by an irregular circle of precipitous cliffs, which rise more than a thousand feet higher. he waters are an intense blue, the color given by the great depth which is over 2000 feet. Crater Lake is reached from San Francisco over the "Shasta Route" of the Southern Pacific, by way of Klamath Falls or Medford, whence automobile stages run to Crater Lake Lodge.

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A particularly fine view of the Willamette River is obtained looking east near Junction City, Oregon on the Southern Pacific "Shasta Route," which closely follows the river for over one hundred miles, crossing it several times. Royal Ghinook salmon weighing forty to fifty pounds are caught from this river with rod and reel below the falls at Oregon City. The rich

Willamette Valley lies between the Cascade Mountains on the east, and the Coast range on the West.

Its 5,000,000 acres of tillable land now have a population of less than 200,000, while its area is greater than Massachusetts with a population of 3,000,000.

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The Mission of San Xavier dal Bac is situated nine miles south of Tucson in the Santa Cruz Valley. Founded in 1699 San Xavier has passed through many vicissitudes and has played an important part in the history of the city, which was originally a supply station for the mission. San Xavier is not a ruin; it is considered one of the finest examples of Saracenic architecture in America. Services are still held there regularly. A few miles north of San Xavier, at Tubac, on the Southern Pacific line to Nogales, is the picturesque ruin of Mission San Jose de Tumacacori.

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Founded June 29, 1776, this mission was the beginning of San Francisco. Built on the banks of a little stream named Dolores Creek, the mission; properly named San Francisco de Asis, has been popularly called Mission Dolores. The building has been well preserved and today stands in the very heart of the city. The mission contains many fine examples of the Indian neophytes. In the cemetery adjoining the mission are the headstones of scores of famous people of early days.

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Mission San Fernando, named in honor of Fernando III, King of Spain, was founded September 8, 1797. This old Mission, under the jurisdiction first of Santa Barbara and later Los Angeles figures in the political history of early California. It was here that 270 men were massed to arrest the march on Los Angeles of Governor Alvarado who intended punishing the southern people who had risen in rebellion against what they termed his unjust rule. Fremont and his battalion in 1874, camped at San Fernando until the signing of the treaty of Cahuenga, closing hostilities against the United States in its conquest of California.

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The De Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park is the most complete museum in the West. The nucleus of the collection we, formed in 1894 as the result of the Mid-Winter Fair, a successful exposition held by San Francisco following the Chicago World's Fair.

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The ferry building, whose gold-topped tower is familiar to every San Francisco visitor, is the principal and most picturesque of the city's several gateways. It stands at the foot of Market Street, the city's main thoroughfare, which has been likened to a gay composite of all the main streets on the globe. San Francisco enjoys an undisputed position as the social and economic leader of the West. Its population exceeds half a million. There is a fascination about the city that draws the visitor again. Its charm may be summed up in its superb location its bracing climate, the activity and vivacity of its people, its optimism and its individuality. San Francisco has hundreds of hotels containing the latest achievements in accommodations, comforts and service. San Francisco's restaurants are world famous. Points of interest for the tourist include Chinatown, beautiful Golden Gate Park, the Embarcadero, the Presidio, Cliff House, Seal Rocks, Sutro Heights, ifs two magnificent bay bridges the Ocean Beach.

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The Sather Memorial Campanile, 302 feet high, is situated near the center of the Campus just to the east of the group of buildings formed by California Hall, Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall, Boalt Hall of Law, and the University Library. The Campanile houses a wonderful chime of bells; and a comprehensive panoramic view of the San Francisco Bay and environs may be had from the top, which is reached by elevator.

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Hotel Del Monte is one of the most famed of American hostelries. Here you may see what is possible of achievement in combining luxury and comfort.

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The Memorial Church at Stanford University, with twelve other buildings, forms the Inner Quadrangle and has been declared by authorities to be one of the most imposing and artistic religious .edifices in the country. Elaborate mosaic work adorns its pediment and spacious interior. The University one of the leading educational institutions of the United States, was founded by Governor (afterwards Senator) Leland Stanford and Mrs. Jane Latrop Stanford in memory of their only child Leland Stanford, Jr., who died in his sixteenth year. It has resources of between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000 and was opened in October, 1891.

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Monterey, California, was the first capital of the State, and many interesting landmarks and ancient buildings of intense interest to visitors are still standing. Chief of these is the old Customs House, over which has flown the flag of four nations.

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A three-hour drive from Douglas, Arizona, in the heart of the Chiricahua Mountains, lies the Chiricahua National Monument. Here, in an area covering forty-five hundred acres, is a vast collection of natural rock formations, many of which bear striking resemblance to birds, fish. totem poles, toad stools, animals and even human forms. A fine road leads to the very heart of this scenic wonderland and trails lead in all directions. The hills are heavily wooded and the entire area is one of great natural beauty. '

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San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge connecting the city with Marin County, gateway to the Pacific Northwest. Its center span is eight-tenths of a mile in length, the longest single span in the world. The bridge rises 250 feet above the tidewaters sweeping in and out of the Golden Gate. On one of its 746-ft. towers is located a United States lighthouse station.

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Portland, Oregon, is the northern terminus of the Southern Pacific. It is built on both sides of the Willamette River, twelve miles from its confluence with the Columbia, and was first settled in 1843. It is one of the largest wheat shipping ports in the United States, the largest lumber export point in the world, and the distributing center for 250,000 square miles. Portland is a city of handsome and substantial business blocks; fine hotels, extensive parks, and is a charming place of residence. Roses bloom every month of the year, its famous "Rose Festival" being held annually in June. From Council Crest, Portland Heights, and other terraced residential districts there is a wonderful panorama of snowy mountain peaks on the skyline. Mount Hood, 11225 feet; Mount St. Helens, 9,760 feet; Mount Adams, 12,307 feet; Mount Rainier, 14,408 feet, and Mount Jefferson, 10,350 feet, are all visible while the courses of the Columbia and Willamette rivers can be followed for miles. The Columbia River Highway extends from Portland to the Dallas, a splendid boulevard unsurpassed in variety of scenic charm.

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