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The railway follows up the Columbia, beueath its basalt 

 Paiisades — beyond Rock Island (1.610 miles) the rail- 

 way bridges it. 



Wenatchee on the Columbia ( 1.621 miles) is the hub 

 of the Wenatchee \'alley. the "Land of the Big Red Ap- 

 Ijle." A generation ago this was a desert of volcanic ash, 

 where onlv sage-brush grew ; today under irrigation the 

 Wenatchee \'alley, from end to end is one vast orchard 

 that bears "big red" Wenatchee apples that are shipped 

 even over-sea. 



Cp the Wenatchee Valley the transcontinental track- 

 heads toward the Cascades — through the spurs of the 

 \\'enatchee range and alongside the snow-fed \\'enatchee 

 river, hurrving down from Glacier Peak. 



Leavenworth ( L644 miles), altitude 1,165 feet, stands 

 at the eastern base of the main range of the Cascade 

 mountains : here the Great Xorthern begins its scaling of 

 the Cascades — the most wonderful ride by rail in all 

 "America. A second big locomotive — a "helper" — is 

 coupled to overland trains. 



' Tumwater ( Talking Water ) Canyon the railway enters 

 immediately, and for ten sharply-climbing miles the track 

 twists up thi^ wonder place — a tremendous cleft where 

 the Wenatchee tumbles and foams between mountains 

 forested with firs, hemlocks, spruces and cedars of the 

 Wenatchee National Forest, and so high that never-melt- 

 ing snow lies in the shadowed crevices about the crests 

 ofthem. Rare bear, deer and goat hunting is hereabouts. 



Xason Creek Canyon the railway climbs from Nason 

 Creek station (altitude 2,153 feet) — another tremendous 

 cleft in the mountains with brawling Xason Creek at its 

 bottom. 



From Cascade Tunnel station (l.(>77 miles i. at 3,37? 

 feet altitude, the Great Northern through the Cascade 

 Tunnel passes under the ridge of the Cascades. 



Tye (1,680 miles) stands at the west portal of Cascade 

 Tunnel, and is perched high up on the north wall of 

 Tve River Canyon ; here the Great Xorthern begins the 

 descent of the Cascade's west slojje — the track following 

 a shelf along the canyon's wall. The "doll's house" that's 

 glimpsed from this high track, down in the canyon, is the 

 big hotel at Scenic Hot Springs. The shoulder of Windv 

 Point-is tunneled. A bit further on the track bridges the 

 chasm of Martin's Creek and runs the unique ^lartin's 

 Creek Tunnel — both of whose portals are east portals, 

 and which describes a complete down-hill horseshoe in 

 the mountain. At Scenic the railway horseshoes into the 

 west again — a descent of 1,007 feet in 9 miles of track — 

 at that delightful mountain resort, in the Snoqualmie Na- 

 tion Forest, Scenic Hot Springs. Skykomish ( 1.701 

 miles), 1,168 feet below Scenic, marks the bottom of the 

 descent of the main range of the Cascades. 



The salt waters of Paget Sound, the Great Northern 

 reaches at Everett (1,753 miles) — and from Everett 

 southward to the three wonder cities of the Pacific Xorth- 

 west, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland — still another fine 

 rail ride — the Great Northern, over what's nicknamed the 

 "Coast Line," makes through the delightful Puget Sound 

 country and the interesting lower Columbia region. 



PARK SUPERINTENDENTS' ITINERARY TO 

 SAN FRANCISCO. 



The itinerary of the American Association of Park 

 Superintendents' trip to San Francisco is now complete 

 and being fiistributed. An invitation has been extended 

 to the members of the National Association of ( iardeners, 

 and to members of all horticultural societies to join the 

 park superintendents on their trip to the F'acific coast 

 and return, to attend the several conventions to be held 

 in San Francisco the third week of August. 



The party will leave New ^'ork on .Saturday, August 7, 



arriving at Chicago the following morning. Leaving 

 Chicago that night the party will arrive at Minneapolis 

 on Monday morning and continue its trip that night, 

 traveling through North Dakota and Montana, reaching 

 Glacier National Park, Montana, on \\'ednesday morning. 

 After spending a day at the park in sightseeing, the party 

 will arrive at Spokane. Wash., the following morning. 

 It will leave for Seattle that night, arriving there the 

 following noon. The next morning a Puget Soimd 

 steamer will be boarded for Tacoma, which city will be 

 reached about noon. The following morning the party 

 will arrive at Portland, C)re., departing in the afternoon 

 for San Francisco, where it will arrive late on Monday 

 afternoon August 16. 



.\fter a week's stay in San Francisco the party will 

 continue its trip on Tuesday, August 24, for Los Angeles, 

 Pasadena and the San Diego Exposition, in which cities 

 four days will be spent. 



Departing from San Diego on Sunda}' morning. August 

 29, the next stop will be at Salt Lake City on the follow- 

 ing da\ . Pueblo, Colo., will be reached on Tuesday 

 afternoon, where a short stop will be made for sight- 

 seeing, and Colorado Springs on Wednesday morning. 

 Leaving Colorado Springs the following morning the 

 partv will arrive at Denver at noon of that day. remain- 

 ing imtil night and arriving at Kansas City, ^lo., the fol- 

 lowing afternoon, leaving that night for St. Louis. 



Arriving at St. Louis Saturday morning the members 

 of the party will separate that evening, those traveling 

 to Chicago arriving at that city on the following morn- 

 ing ; those for New York, Philadelphia and Washington 

 arriving in the eastern cities early on the morning of 

 September 6. 



The rciund trip fare over the entire route, including 

 lower Pullman berth, will be: From Xew York, $164.80; 

 Chicago, §159.20; Washington, $151.95; Buftalo, 

 $140.50; Chicago, $114.50; Minneapolis, $105.95. 



Tickets are good for ninety days, so that those who 

 may desire to leave the party in California and extend 

 their trip on the Pacific coast, or in Colorado, to visit 

 Yellowstone Park, can do so by making arrangements for 

 the homeward trip when purchasing tickets. Return trip 

 can also be made from California via the Sunset Route 

 to Xew Orleans, thence bv the Southern Pacific steamers 

 to New York at no additional fare. 



Complete details and copy of the itinerary may be 

 had by applying to Herman \\'. .Merkel. chairman Trans- 

 portation committee, .\merican Association of Park Su- 

 perintendents, Zoological Park, Xew York; 'SI. C. Ebel, 

 secretary, Xational Association of (iardeners. Madison. 

 N. J., or any of the offices of Thomas Cook & Sons, tour- 

 ist asrents. 



EXPOSITION MEMORIAL .\UniTORIUM. S.W FR.VXCISCO. WHERE 

 THE COXVEXTIGNS WILL BE HELD. 



