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 Shasta is the last grand towering landmark of the Sierra in the north, standing alone in its white, silent 
 majestj' : half its slopes of evergreen and half of snow, this crowning glory of the north is forever and from all 
 sides overpowering in its grandeur. It matters not whether it be by glimpses through the pine slopes of the 
 Sacramento Canyon, from the broad table lands of Strawberry and Shasta Valleys, or from the summit of the 
 rugged Siskiyous, the eye turns with an ever-increasing interest and delight towards Shasta. 
 
 There are immense glaciers in its awful gorges on the eastern and northern sides : but on account of the 
 almost inaccessible heights and depths in their neighborhood they remain for the most part in secret solitude in 
 their icy beds. With the exception of Whitney — the giant of them all — they have been designated by Indian 
 names. The most southerly one, which heads near Thumb Rock, is Konwa Kiton (mud glacier), Wintun 
 (Indian tribal name), Hotlum (Steep rock), Bolam (great). From these great ice bodies there flow in summer 
 myriads of translucent streams : in winter old Boreas seals them up with his step-mother breath, and no sound of 
 trickling rill is heard again until the time of the singing of birds is come. 
 
 Shasta is visible for two hundred miles of the Portland route ; from the upper Sacramento Valley its pale, 
 cloud-like shaft is faintly outlined against the northea.stern sky. From Castle Creek to McCloud fragments 
 of its dazzling white tower arc disclo.sed through frame-work of dark-green pine needles ; at Sisson, the 
 noonday splendor of its mighty front shines down full upon you with a power that stirs you to the very soul. 
 Receding from it northwards there are visions of splintered peaks, lava-worn abysms and beetling crags, their 
 deep recesses enswathed in a whiteness like luito wool. Distance lends a mellow enchantment to the view, paring 
 down the rough spurs, dips and angles, so that from the Klamath, and all the way up the sides of the Siskiyous 
 this northern buttress of the Sierra seems a thing more of heaven than earth. 
 
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 HEHt^V R. KfJflPP, SflN FlRRNCISCO 
 
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t^emafkable Engineeping along the "Shasta f^oute." 
 
 The completion a few months ago of the all-rail line between San 
 Francisco and Portland, Or., marked the successful termination of 
 one of the most difficult and costly railway engineering achievements 
 on the continent. For some years the Southern Pacific Company and 
 the Oregon & California Railroad have been in operation respectively 
 from San Francisco north and from Portland south, nearly to the 
 boundary between the two States ; but the tremendous mountain 
 ranges which intervened constituted a barrier not only discouraging 
 to those who were called upon to provide mouey for overcoming it, 
 but it was even believed by some, would battte the skill of the engineer 
 and the railway builder if the completion of the work was really 
 undertaken. The Southern Pacific Company, however, did under 
 take and did successfully carry through this great work ; and now 
 the traveler, by palace car between the chief cities of California and 
 Oregon, is enabled to view, along portions "f the "Shasta Itoute," 
 the grandest mountain scenery of the Pacific Coast, and probably 
 of North America. While something has been writen of the engi- 
 neering difficulties encountered in completing this line, no descrip- 
 tion that we have seen gives an adequate idea of what has been over- 
 come. 
 
 Leaving San Krancisco at 6.30 P. M. , the tourist reaches Delta, "298 
 miles northward, about 0.30 a. m. , and for the next throe liour.s is 
 viewing the tremendous scenery upon which Mount Shasta, from his 
 snowy heights, looks down. 
 
 The barrinr that occasioned the necessity of the " B'g Bend of the 
 Sacramento " was one of the huge flanks of Shasta that plunges down 
 across the cafion a few miles above Mossbrae Falls. From this point, 
 Eighteenth Crossing, to Edgewood, a distance of twenty-five miles, 
 the route is along the foothills of Shasta, the highest point reached 
 (near Muir's Peak) being nearly 4,000 feet. 
 
 The loadstone of the scenery everywhere on this twenty-five mile 
 ride is, of cours«!, the mountains. The eye tnay sweep the horizon 
 around and meet scenes of sublimity on every hand ; but it turns 
 instinctively again to catch the first Hashes of almost supernatural 
 light that gUam down through the grand avenues of the pines and 
 finally burst into unobstructed splendor at the plateau of Straw- 
 berry Valley. 
 
 Words fail entirely here to give the faintest idea of the solemn 
 repose and unspeakable grandeur of this stately giant of the north, 
 who has reared his cloud-capped towers and icy-lava cliffs to an ele- 
 vation of more than two verticle miles above the surrounding land- 
 scape. The neighboring peaks, that elsewhere would attract general 
 attention, dwindle into insignificance in its mighty shadows. 
 Where once the lurid glare of volcanic fires blazed (Uit from this 
 high citadel, there is now eternal hoar frost, ice, snow and utter 
 silence. Glaciers fill its ancient lava grooves ; and streams of the 
 coldest water spring from the crevasses made long ago by the burn- 
 ing, fiery lava. 
 
 The sublime scenery enjoyed in crossing the Siskiyou Mountains 
 is presented in the afternoon— Gregory, 409 miles north of San 
 Francisco, being reached at 2.30 P. M., Siskiyou at "2.55 p. M., and 
 the day's ride terminating with a short stop at Ashland, in Oregon, a 
 little after 5.00 o'clock. The Siskiyou Mountains, up whose ru.ged 
 sides the grade reaches the steep pitch of 174 feet to the mile, run 
 at right angles with the Cascades and form a natural geographical, 
 as well as an artificial. State line between California and Oregon. 
 
 The scenery all along this tortuous route from State line to the 
 summit an<l down into the Kogue River Valley is alive with interest. 
 Before entering 'I'uunel No. 13, going north, the last view of Cali- 
 fornia is had : and it is an appropriate clo.sing scene in the great 
 panoramic e.\hibition of northern California. Down the northern 
 slope of the Siskiyous to Ashland the scenery is grandly diversified 
 by forest, field and stream, by mountain, valley and plain. 
 
 A profile of the long curve over the Siskiyous would show to the 
 engineer very cleary the heavy work thnt had to be done in cutting 
 a pathway, stfep though it is, ahing the rugged mountain sides, 
 through numerous rocky walls, and over many gorges which had to 
 be spanned with costly iron bridges. ; . !•. • t '• .' ^•"•_ '. 
 
 With Ills mind excited and almost overpoweftcl^jJ'tJieVweinspM"- 
 ing scenery, anud which he has spent the.tlay, the,trn,vflv jviy.coji- 
 teutedly retire as he is carried over the stijj i;u^^cctbu{ tos* iiSippJipV^ 
 scenery of southern Oregon, and before 1 KO(f o'clVd<*ftexWnSrnirg 
 will find himself in Portland, the capital of that new and wonder- 
 fully growing State. — From Rnitmai/ At/f, May 11. 1SS8. 
 

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