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GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. 





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By looking alioad from tlio Palo Alto station the traveler may see on 

 the right of the track the tall tree (Spanish, palo alto) for which 



Senator Stanford's estate was named. It is 

 the only redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) near 

 the main line of the railroad. It stands on the 

 bank of San Francisquito Creek, and the 

 Southern Pacific Co. has built a wall of con- 

 crete to protect it from floods. 



In Menlo Park, a village of beautiful parks 

 and grounds, reside many well-to-do business 

 and professional men who pass their working 



days in San Francisco. On 

 the right, near the bay beyond 

 Menlo Park^ is a large tannery, 

 and far out m the marsh a sta- 

 tion for drying Alaskan codfish. 



The town of Redwood was formerly the cen- 

 ter of the redwood lumber industry of the 

 Santa Cruz Kange, then completely forested. 



Most of the redwood trees are 



Redwood. 



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Menlo Park. 



Population 820. 



Los Angeles 442 miles 



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Elevation 7 feet. 



Population 4,299. 

 Los Angeles 445 miles. 



gone, but a few of them can 

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trees in view, however, are 

 3 largely a second growth. On the left, near Red- 

 wood, is a factory where magnesite is ground. 

 Between Redwood and San Carlos there is a 

 view to the left (west) of an even- 



Tliis is 



Cahill Ridge- Between it and the rounded 

 oak-strewn foothills that lie nearer to the rail- 

 road is the narrow, rectilmear valley of the 

 San ^Vndreas rift. Two lakes, San Andreas 

 and Crystal Springs, have been formed in this 

 part of the valley by damming and supply 

 much of the water used in San Francisco. 



Just beyond San Carlos, on the left (west), 

 is an Iron standpipe forming part uf the water- 

 supply system of San Francisco, and below 



it, near the railroad, is one of 

 the pumpmg stations. Here 

 the oak-croA\Ticd hills composed 

 of sandstones and other rockB 

 of the Franciscan group come close to the 

 bay and leave only a narrow belt of alluvium 



San Carlos. 



Elevation 25 feet. 

 Los Angeles 447 miles. 



between the foothills and the salt marshes. 



