hundred carloads are shipped out of the county annually to the eastern 

 markets. 



This portion of the State enjoys the typical California climate; in the 

 valley the warm summers and mild winters; in the higher altitudes of the 

 mountains the winters are more pronounced, and during the summer 

 months the valley people there find pleasant camping-grounds with an 

 abundance of game and fish. Table Mountain is about two miles north 

 from Oroville. Its height is 1,400 feet. Standing upon It one has a mag- 

 nificent view of the entire Sacramento Valley, 130 miles to the south, 

 100 miles northward, and westward across its width, an average of about 

 fifty miles to the Coast Range Mountains. 



ROUND ABOUT PASADENA 



A. H. CHAMBBRLAIN 

 Acting Prenldent Throop Polytechnic Inatltnte 



THE Eastern visitor to our Coast, who, leaving a region wrapped in 

 ice and snow, and finding himself at the end of his journey amid 

 palm trees and rose blossoms, with ripening fruit of a dozen varieties 

 ready at hand, with the tempting orange and its background of 

 green, naturally feels that California is the ideal spot in winter. But to 

 those who have passed a twelvemonth in this land of the sun-down sea 

 it is clear that the summer, when compared with the climates of the East, 

 is even more to be desired than the winter. 



Pasadena, reached by the Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, and Salt Lake 

 railways, has also three direct trolley lines, requiring some thirty minutes 

 to Los Angeles. The Pasadena Board of Trade has the distinction of 

 leading in the good-roads movement in the South and the results are 

 highly satisfactory to all who enjoy driving or automobiling. A series of 

 boulevards is projected and most of the main country arteries of travel 

 are highly improved. 



In and about Pasadena are many scenic attractions. In addition to 

 the beautiful natural live-oak parks, the orange and lemon groves, the 

 vineyards, and the city Itself, which is one vast lawn and flower garden, 

 there is the more majestic beauty of the mountains, towering as a back- 

 ground six miles distant. No mountain railroad in the world shows to the 

 traveler a more marvelous feat of engineering than does the incline and 

 electric road up Mt. Lowe. Winding in and out among the pines, it runs 

 along the edge of the canon a thousand feet in depth and conveys the 

 traveler to an elevation of six thousand feet, from which in ordinary weather 

 one may easily descry the ocean thirty-five miles away, or trace the water- 

 line at Catalina Island, an equal distance off shore. 



Perhaps the most unique out-of-door pageant that may be witnessed 

 anywhere is the annual Tournament of Roses, given on New Year's Day 

 in Pasadena. Coaches, carriages, automobiles, gay outriders, floats, repre- 

 sentative of educational, commercial, and industrial enterprises, everybody 

 and everything embowered in an endless variety of flowers and greenery. 

 The revival of the old Roman chariot races adds zest to the occasion. 



As a city of some thirty thousand people Pasadena boasts as fine 

 business blocks as many Eastern cities of much greater size. Manufactur- 

 ing and commercial enterprises center in the South. Millions of dollars 

 worth of fruit are yearly shipped from this section. The hotel facilities 

 are excelled nowhere in Europe or America. The parks reflect the natural 

 beauty surrounding them. 



As a city of homes, Pasadena is ideal. The bungalow and mission 

 styles of buildings so well adapted to this climate had their origin here, 

 but whether the home of workingman, merchant, or millionaire, taste and 

 refinement are everywhere apparent. Coming as they do from all sections 

 of our country, and making for themselves homes in a town where for 



