SHASTA EOUTE SEATTLE TO SAN FEANCISCO, 49 



in the deeply disiiiteo;rated granodiorite, wliich is used hv 



named 



grayel 



an Indian uprising on Rogue Rircr in the early fifties, is the seat of 



Josephine County and the mining center of south- 

 Grants Pass, western Oregon. From 1903 to 1912 the placer 



Seattle 483 miles. !$^,i)14,715 ui gold, and the rein or lode muics 



$1,523,226. A stage line runs from Grants Pass 

 tlu-ough Kerby and Waldo to the coast at Crescent City, and a raih-oad 

 to the same place is now under construction. 



visit to the Oreg 



miles 



known on the Pacific coast. The caves are 



automobile and trail. They have been formed by the solution of 

 limestone and are ornamented by a great variety of beautiful stalac- 

 tites and stalagmites (PI. XV, B) composed of carbonate of lime 

 deposited by water. These caves have been set apart by the Federal 

 Government for preservation as a national monument. 



first 



eam 



gr 



from 



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snows about Crater Lake, is usually clear. The railroad for 20 miles 



earn 



ally wide enougli to contain some tillable bottom land. The rocks 

 through which this narrow valley has been cut are Paleozoic in a^c — ■ 



rocks that have hither 



route. 



imestones, and greenstones 



the Dothan and Galice foimations, abeady noted^ have been so 

 folded and faulted that the Paleozoic rocks are thrust over unon the 



formation. These Paleozoic rocks resist erosion 



or 



cut tln'ough 



them by Rogue River remains narrow. 



At 3-^ miles oast of Grants Pass, on the left (north), behind a little 

 hill of granodiorite on Bloody Run Creek, is the Golden Drift placer 

 niine, now idle. About 5 miles farther north is another small 

 intrusive mass of granodiorite, about which are some small mines on 

 gold-bearing quartz veins. 



From milenost 460.4 un thp riv^r the Savaore Ranids are in view. 



peaks of greenstone, stand 



railroad 



469.1). 



Josephine and Jackson countie 



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