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Rodding, the seat of Shasta County, is the supply point for much 

 of the southern part of the Klamath Mountains, especially the region 



drained hy Trinity River and ahout WeaverviUe, a 

 Redding. town 50 miles from Kedding;, reached by a daily auto- 



Elevation 557 feet. mobile stag 



Weaverville 



yards 



sSeSSJ ^^^ ^^^^ *^^ richest and most persistently produc- 

 tive gold-placer region of northern California. At 

 the La Grange mine^ reported to be the largest hydraulic mme in the 



of gravel is washed each hour. A 

 stage line runs eastward from Redding across the low Cascade Range 

 north of Lassen Peak to Alturas, which is within the Great Basin, 

 east of the Pacific coast mountain belt. 



Redding is built on the division of the older alluvium of Sacra- 

 mento Valley that has been named the Red Bluff formation. The 

 railroad cuts in the plain south of the town show much coarse gravel 

 belonging to this formation. To the west the gravel laps up over a 

 terrace that is traceable around the northwest border of the Sacra- 

 mento Valley and is continuous with the terrace along the river 

 above Redding^ already noted. Beyond the terrace may be seen to 

 the northwest the rounded form of Bally Mountain (6,246 feet), com- 

 posed of granodiorite, and in the west the sharper form of Bully 

 Choop (7,073 feet), composed of peridotite. 



At milepost 253 the railroad crosses Clear Creek, which drains the 

 French Gulch mining district and on which is Horsetown, noted for 

 its formerly active placer mines and for its Lower Cretaceous fossils. 

 To the northeast the horizon shows the outlines of the numerous 

 conical volcanic hiUs characteristic of this part of the Cascade Range. 

 The highest of them is Lassen Peak (10,437 feet), an active volcano 

 recently in eruption. To the left, farther north, is Crater Peak (8,724 

 feet), on which snow remains into July. The Lassen Peak volcanic 

 ridge fills the 50-mile gap between the Klamath Mountains and the 

 Sierra Nevada. 



From Anderson a short railroad hne runs northward to Bella- 

 Anderson Vista. Directly east of Anderson is Shingletown 

 ^j ^. ' Butte, a perfect Httle extinct volcanic cone. From 

 Population i.soiV Panorama Point may be obtained the best view of 

 Seattle 70-3 miles. Lassou Peak to be had from the railroad. Shingle- 



Panoratna Point. **^^^ "^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ foreground, and Inskip Hill, a 



Seattle 713 miles. 



group of recent 



Cottonwood. the raiboad 



A quarter of a mile south of Cottonwood station 



Elevation 423 feet. 



Population 439.* 

 Seattle 716 miles. 



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formed 



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the sand filling has hardened into rock, so that the dikes resemble true 



igneous dikes. 



