SHASTA EOUTE SEATTLE TO SA:N" FRANCISCO. 



83 



Richmond. 



Populatiou 6,802. 

 Seattle 942 miles. 



On the other side of them are wharves, warehouses, and large rail- 

 way shops hclonging to the Santa Fe system. From that side, also, 

 the Santa Fe ferry plies to San Francisco, 



Richmond, on both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe lines, 

 is becoming a busy shipping, railroad, and manufacturing point, on 



account of the congestion of the water front of Oak- 

 land and San Francisco. The hills on the east side 

 of the track, known to old Californians as the Contra 

 Costa Hills but now often referred to as the Berkeley 

 HUls, rise steeply from the plain. The most conspicuous summit 

 from the west is Grizzly Peak (1,759 feet), but Bald Peak, just east 

 of it, is 171 feet higher. The hills are generally treeless on their 

 exposed western slopes, although their ravines and the eastern slopes 

 are wooded.* 



Beyond San Pablo and Richmond the rocks of the Franciscan group 

 outcrop in low hills. At Stege the railroad is still close to the shore 

 of the bay. Between this place and the hills is one of the suburbs of 



known 



The traveler can get here an 



unob 

 Mom 



Just 



to the left of the Golden Gate the white buildings of the Exposition 

 grounds can readily be distinguished if the day is at all clear. At 

 Nobel station a little wooded hill of Franciscan rocks stands close to 

 the railroad on the left. Beyond Nobel an excellent view may be had 

 of the hilly portion of the city of Berkeley. 



West Berkeley station, also known as University Avenue, is in the 

 older part of the city of Berkeley, and the center of the city is now 



almost 2^ miles back toward the hills. Berkeley was 

 named after Bishop Berkeley, the English prelate of 



Berkeley. 



Elevation 8 feet. 



Population 40,434. 

 Seattle 948 miles. 



California. 



the eio-hteenth century who wrote the stanza begin- 



Westw 



by those who chose it as a site for the University of 



okin 



Why 



name it Berkeley?'' and Berkeley it became. 



uogic structure of these iiills is 

 plicated. Along their south- 

 'west base, between Berkeley and Oak- 



land, is a belt of the sandstones, cherts, 



and scliista belonging to the Franciscan 



(Jurassic?) group and characteristically 

 ciGo/^^:..^„,i ___•.! ^£ serpentine, 



rocks are 



a^ociated with masses 

 flying the Franciscan 



and conglomerates 



sandst 



shales 



of Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene age. 

 These in turn are overlain by tuffs, fresh- 

 water beds, and lavas of Pliocene and 

 early Quaternary ago. The general 

 stmcture of the ridge east of Berkeley is 

 synclinal, the beds on boi" 



into the hills. 



part 



formed 



Pliocene age. 



