tains are within easy reach. A specially excellent resort reached by Southern 

 Pacific Company's trains to Boulder Creek, and thence by trails ten miles 

 to Big Basin ; and also in Boulder Creek and Los Gatos Creek ; stops for 

 these can be made at Los Gatos or Wrights or other convenient sta- 

 tions. Water-fowl and marsh-land birds, quail, pigeons, doves, larks 

 and squirrels are plentiful. Deer may be found in favorable places. At 

 Big Tree station, by rail six miles from Santa Cruz, is a remarkable grove 

 of redwoods. These are carefully preserved and have historic interest. 

 The valleys and lower hills are agreeably clothed in oaks, pines, laurel, 

 madrona and buckeye, and the mountains and their ravines and canyons 

 with a dense growth of noble redwoods madronas and laurels. 



SALMON. 



Salmo quinnat, 



SHASTA COUNTY. 



UPPER SACRAMENTO, PITT, AND McCLOUD RIVERS AND CATHEDRAL 



AND OTHER LAKES. 



So far as the general world of sportsmen in its higher walks 

 is concerned, no introduction to regal Mount Shasta and its kingdom 

 is needed ; but for benefit of new arrivals in this Pacific sporting field, 

 it may be said that this incomparable region is traversed for 100 miles by 

 the Shasta route of Southern Pacific Company, beginning at Redding, 

 260 miles from San Francisco, and extending thence northward to Edge- 

 wood and beyond. On this line, Sims is about midway, and is a point 



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