. Review of reviews and world's work . city onthe Pacific Coast is nearest the great world-circuit route of steamers through Panama? Follow with your eye these lines. LosAngeles draws a line up parallel with the back-bone of the Rockies to Salt Lake and Butteand Helena, and from Montana back west toSeattle, and from Seattle, down at rightangles back again to Los Angeles. ADVANTAGES CLAIMED BY LOS ANGELES Now, look, says Los Angeles. FromMontana wheat fields to the Pacific Coast,a thousand miles! From Seattle down thePacific Coast to Los Angeles another thou-sand miles (roughly speaking and in
. Review of reviews and world's work . city onthe Pacific Coast is nearest the great world-circuit route of steamers through Panama? Follow with your eye these lines. LosAngeles draws a line up parallel with the back-bone of the Rockies to Salt Lake and Butteand Helena, and from Montana back west toSeattle, and from Seattle, down at rightangles back again to Los Angeles. ADVANTAGES CLAIMED BY LOS ANGELES Now, look, says Los Angeles. FromMontana wheat fields to the Pacific Coast,a thousand miles! From Seattle down thePacific Coast to Los Angeles another thou-sand miles (roughly speaking and in big roundnumbers, of course). But from Los Angeles— the hypothenuse of the triangle—^upstraight to the sheep and wool and wheat andlumber and beef country, the shortest dis-tance to Panama by a thousand miles; and nohigh mountain passes to cross; and the haulall down hill — and before you have listenedfive minutes, you are convinced that LosAngeles has all the other ports on the Pacificbeaten to a frazzle as far as preparations. ONE OF THE WORLDS GREAT NATURAL HARBORS.—THE BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO 705 706 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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