Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-06-09
sierra's Shining Shasta.
MOUNT SHASTA THE cROWNING
GLORY Or TnEM ALL, WITH
ITS TOWERING HEIGHTS.
Visible For Two Hundred Niles, Dat.
lined Against the Sky--visit
Is srett:sao q Number Of Mexico
People - On the
Road Home.

famous Mount Shasta and en- route
for Portland, thence To- Puget Sound
and Vancouver Land.
Mount Shasta is the last grand
towering landmark of the Sierra in
the north, standing alone in its
white, silent majesty. Half its
slopes of evergreen and half of snow,
this crowning glory of the north is
forever and from all sides overpower-
ing in its grandeur. 1t matters not
whether it be by glimpses through
the pine slopes of the Sacramento
Canon, 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
toward 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 south
erly one, which heads near Thumb
Rock, is Konwa Kiton (mud
glacier), Wintun { Indian tribal
name), Hotlum (step rocky, Bolam
(great). From these great ice
bodies there flow in summer
myriads of translucent streams; in
winter old Boreas seals them up
with his stepmother breath, and no
sound of trickling rill is heard again
until the time of the singing of birds
has come.
Shasta is visible for two hundred
miles on the Portland route; from
the upper Sacramento Valley its
pale, cloud-like shaft is family out
lined against the northeastern sky
| From Castle Creek to McCloud frag-
| ments of its dazzling white tower
are disclosed through framework
of dark green pine needles; at Sisson
the MONDAY splendor of its mighty
front shines down full upon you
with a power that stirs you to the
very soul. Receding from it north
ward there are visions of splintered
peaks, lava-worn abysms and beet
ling crags, their deep recesses en-.
swathed in a whiteness like unto
wool. Distance lends mellow en-
chantment to the view, pairing down
the rough spurs, dips and angles, sc
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.
Slate Creek, Southern, Lower
Soda Springs, Castle Rock, and
Upper Soda Springs, are on the
Sacramento River. Sisson (Straw.
berryValley) is at the base of Mt
Shasta.
At Sisson guides and horses are
provided for excursions to the sum
NIT of Mt. Shasta and to the salmon
and trout fishing stations and deer
licks on the headwaters of the Nc
Cloud River.
| We took dinner at Redding, north
ern California, and met Flav'
Gaines, a brother-in-law of Redmar
Galloway. He married DIR. j.
lW. McWilliams'' sister. Mr.. Gaines
SAYS he came out here for his healtl
and thinks this a glorious climate
but says the soil here is nothing II
compare with that of Missouri ant
Audrain County. Health was wha
he wanted and he prefers to liy'
here even to dying in Missouri. WI
were at Woodland one-half a day
DIR. Macfarlane and others from
Mexico live there. The doctor has
Isplendid practice but would like t.
be back in old Missouri.
| Another peeuliarity of this stat
is the volunteer oats. If you leav'
farm idle here it will grow wilt
oats year after year. This crop make
lfine feed.
| We spent Friday at Grass Valley
the centre OF the mining country
James Lakenan, cousin of Mrs
Judge Edwards and J. G. Lakenan
of Mexico, lives there and is yer.
wealthy and one OF the most promi
nent citizens OF the state. He enter
tanned the writer royalty.
We visited all the big mines an
the amount of money taken out c
them is wonderful. The scener
on the" Pacific Slope, y as John Rose
berry used to call it, is magnificent
. so are some OF the lions in this pa
of the world. John lived here awhil
himself. When the natives get
E talking about the country they can
a. Etell the truth. The MissouriaT
: -ihave been here three weeks and al
Il getting a little that way themselves
Ell The trip from San Diego 10 Pug
!, Sound is; We think, one Of Il
5 gandest in regard to scenery
/ 1.-THE world. We are oil going salme
. fishing tomorrow and viii ser
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