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PREFACE, 



le map m a 

 real estate, 



railroad folder by meaningless spaces, but rather as land— 

 if you please — varying widely in present appearance because diflfering 

 largely in its history and characterized by even greater variation in 

 values because possessing diversified natural resources. One region 

 may be such as to afford a livelihood for only a pastoral people; 

 another may present opportunity for intensive agriculture; still 

 another mav contain hidden stores of mineral wealth that may 



that State. 



industrial development 

 jvd the promise of long 



Items of interest in civic development 



m 



history 



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:planations of mountain and valley or statement 



West 



in order to meet fully 



hns to 



To such a traveler-reader 



this series of guidebooks is addressed. 



interpretation of our own country 



Survey brin 



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only 



tliis 



Government 



In preparing the description of the country traversed by the Shasta 

 Route and Coast Line all the geographic and geologic information 

 already published as well as other unpublished material in the posses- 

 sion of the Geological Survey has been utilized, but to supplement this 

 material Mr. Diller made a field examination of the entire route in 

 1914. Information has been furnished by Dr. F. M. Anderson, Dr. 

 J. C. Branner, Dr. J. Harlen Bretz, Prof. E. S. Burgess, ^Ir. J. S. Dag- 

 gett, Mrs. L. P. Diller, Mr. Harold Hannibal, Mr. O. H. Hershsy, 

 Prof. A. C. Lawson, Prof. G. D. Louderback, Prof. J. P. Smith, Prof. 

 C. F. Tolman, jr., and Prof. C. E. Weaver, as well as by others to 

 whom credit is given in the text. Railroad officials and other citizens 

 have also generously given their aid, and other members of the Survey 

 have freely cooperated in the work. 



For the purpose of furnishing the traveler with a graphic presen- 

 tation of each part of his route the accompanying maps, 19 sheets in 

 all, have been piepared with a degree of accuracy probably never 

 before attained in a sruidebook, and their arrangement has been 



to meet 



The special topo- 



graphic surveys necessary to complete th 



Jenkins and J. E. Blackburn 



