Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-02
sunny CALIFORNIA
Delights for the Eye Of the Traveller
Through the Beauties of Flower
Land.
Wealth of Scenery Lavishly Displayed
Along the Artistic Mount
Shasta Route. 6
Southern California the Mecca of the
Winter Observation-Disclosures
Who, Are There.

"Where shall I go to spend a portion
of the winter" asks the North Dakotan
who, thanks to bounteous haryests and
productive ranges, lives on "easy street"
these days, "west or south?" Both. That's
what a trip to Southern California
means, and every winter the exodus from
the hills and valleys of the great wheat
belt and stock ranges of the northwest
to the se~mi-tropical regions of Southern
California increases.
This winter is no exception, nothwith-
standing the extraordinary mildness of
the winter season in the Flickertail state.
Every west bound train via the North
ern Pacific is filled with tourists and
from Vancouver to San Diego there is
now a liberal sprinkling of North Da-
kotans. Those who write back to friends
speak in glowing terms, not only of the
unsurpassed scenery, but of the unex-
celled luxuries of railway travel en- route
via the Northern Pacific and Southern
Pacific roads. There is nothing tedious
in the trip from North Dakota to the OK.
IRENE southwestern portion of the United
States. The entire route presents a pan
Drama of u%nequalled variety and interest,
and the scenery is especially grand on
the Mount Shasta route, one of the
most picturesque and interesting railway
routes in the world! From Portland,
along the coast to San Francisco, and on
down into the winter resorts of Cali
%fornia, all n of natural scenery!
The panorama of scenic beauties that
afford the greatest delight to the traveller,
and particularly to the traveller from the
prairies and the unbroken monotony of
the west-mountains, mountain streams,
crags, peaks, forests and swiftly flowing
mountain torrents! All appeal to the
sense of the naturally artistic and de-
light the traveller. All are to be found
on this line between the upper and lower
cities of the coast country, all of whose
features are enhancing and interesting
to the traveller.
The wealth of scenery on the trip from
San Francisco to Portland is lavish.
Nature excelled herself in her endeavors
to please her children, mingling pleasure
at times with awe and stupefaction at
the vagaries of her many moods. Leav.
ing San Francisco, the traveller is accom-
panied for several hours by tidewaters
of the Pacific, then to meet the noun
tain streams of the Sierra Nevada. With
these come plains of oak forests, then
foot hills with their wealth of verdure
and forest growths, the hills covered
with rich colorings and more beautiful
than could be painted by the hand Of
the master artist. In the morning you
reach Red Bluff and then Redding and
the mouth of the Sacramento canon.
Here for 200 miles the grandeur of the
scene is beyond description. The train
follows the Sacramento river past its
source, crossing a number of times, along
cliffs, through tunnels, and above ~trestles
over dizzy heights. During the pleasant
months an observation car is coupled on,
and the traveller may enjoy the scenery
in it's %fullness.
There is novelty without end in the
journey. The view of Mount Shasta,
with its rugged grandeur, it's forbidoing
recesses and it's historic and romantic
legends! Pastoral scenes, mountain fast.
nesses, natural springs, resorts of all de-
scriptions surely there is enough on
the railway trip alone to repay a trip to
the coast, and however often the trip is
made the mind and the eye crave for it
again.
For the purposes of sightseeing and
interest California may be divided into
three great divisions. There is the semi
tropic section of the south, the agricul-
tural and mining sections of the central
interior and the section west of the coast
range. Los Angeles is the center of the
first named, San Francisco of the west
coast and Stockton of the interior. To
see Pasadena, Mount Lowe, Coronado,
and the other famous southern points
which have made California popular
with the winter resorters, go to Los An
geles and make trips from that as a base.
Southern California consists of seven
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