MT. SHASTA, FR(JM THE ( RACS. CASTLE RUCK, CALIFORNIA. 



The South Path From The Pacific Coast 



Practicalh- eveiyone' who i;lans to visit the Cahfornia 

 expositions this _\ear wiU wish to extend his trip to 

 inchide the many natui-al wonders of the West, as well 

 as glimpses of the other Pacific Coast States. Instead of 

 first seeing the expositions and then making side trips 

 to other Western points, often retracing one"s route, an 

 excellent plan is to start from Portland, traveling down 

 the coast through Washington and Oregon and through 

 the wonderful valleys of California. Visits to the ex- 

 positions may be followed by enchanting trips through 

 Arizona and the Southwest, concluding the journey by 

 steamship from New (Jrleans. To arrange your jour- 

 ney in this way, over the Southern Pacific route, is 

 to weld it into a well-balanced 

 whole, a tour which will more 

 than meet your liveliest antici- 

 pations. 



The trip from Portland to San 

 Francisco, by the "Shasta Limited," 

 or l)y one of the other three trains 

 on the Shasta route, is a success -a 

 of never-to-be-forgotten sights. 

 You pass through the Willamette 

 ^'alley, whose great agricultural 

 possibilities the thrifty Pennsyl- 

 vania Dutch were the first to dis- 

 cover many years ago. You climb 

 to the summit of the Siskiyous 

 4,1^5 feet above sea level over a 



series of horseshoe curves, where the track winds around 

 the mouiUain one level above another and one tunnel 

 above another tunnel. 



AROUND MOU.XT SHASTA. 



Mount .Shasta's snow covered crest, 14,380 feet above 

 sea level, soon appears, to remain in sight for four hours 

 or more. As we approach nearer and wind about its 

 base, it is now on one side of the train and then on the 

 other, affording the nearest car window view of any 

 California mountains of such magnitude or beauty. 



Here the Sacramento River has its source, flowing 350 

 miles due south, through the broad Sacramento \'alley. 

 bTom source to mouth, our train is to follow its course, 

 through timber and canyon, across 

 steel bridges or clinging to the 

 mountain side, coming out finally 

 to run for two hundred miles or 

 more through the bottom lands 

 themselves. 



On our way, we may have been 

 fortunate enough to have the novel 

 experience of a car window view 

 of an active volcano, for IMount 

 Lassen at the head of the Sacra- 



rmeiito \'alley awoke on Mav 30, 

 .. t' t l')14, from 200 years of sleep, and 



now it can be seen some 40 miles 

 away from the railroad, emitting 

 large volumes of smoke and ashes 



ONE OF THE STURDY STEAMERS I )F 

 THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC FLEET. 



TijWEK OF .lEWELS. PANAMA PACIFIC 

 INTERX.\TIONAL EXPOSITION. 



MIDWAY POINT, NEAR DEL MONTE, 

 CALIFORNIA. 



