. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. were required. Then thedried fruit crop is valued at $15,000,-000, and 4,800 cars are needed tocarry the same from the state. Thevalue of the various kinds of grain,fruits, grapes, and wine can only beestimated, in each instance reoresent-ing millions of dollars. If the statewas not visited occasionally with adrought to remind the people thatthey ought to exercise some degreeof economy, they would not evenknow the value of wealth. Freighttrains are passed at every siding onthe Southern Pacific
. The Granite monthly, a New Hampshire magazine, devoted to literature, history, and state progress. were required. Then thedried fruit crop is valued at $15,000,-000, and 4,800 cars are needed tocarry the same from the state. Thevalue of the various kinds of grain,fruits, grapes, and wine can only beestimated, in each instance reoresent-ing millions of dollars. If the statewas not visited occasionally with adrought to remind the people thatthey ought to exercise some degreeof economy, they would not evenknow the value of wealth. Freighttrains are passed at every siding onthe Southern Pacific roads, those go-ing loaded with California fruitand other products of the Pacificcoast, and for every train eastboundthere is one coming West with goodsfor consumption. Have any of the GraniteMoNTHiA readers journeyed by railfrom vSeattle or Tacoma to San Fran-cisco, one of the famous scenic routesof the West ? The distance is 958miles, requiring two nights fromPortland, Ore., which is nearly onehundred miles distant from train service is so arranged, 34 ON THE GOLDEN SHORE. %-. It. Shasta, from the Scott Shasta County, Cj Altitude, I 4,442 feet. passengers have a daylight ridethrough the rugged Siskiyou moun-tains, and Mt. Shasta, snow-cappedmuch of the year, standing as a ma-jestic sentinel, 14,442 feet high, ormore than twice the height of ourown Mt. Washington, is plainly seenfrom the car windows for man^^hours. Mt. Hood, near Portland,Mts. Adams, St. Helens, Ranier,and the Cascade range, with theirwhite domes, and the vast interven-ing landscape, afford magnificentviews. The Southern Pacific rail-way have the only rail route betweenPortland and San Francisco, butthere is lively competition from thevarious steamship companies. Sometime since, when a ruinousrate existed between the two cities,water and fuel were supplied the lo-comotives on the mountain ranges, miles from any settlement, and onreaching towns, a high rate of speedwas maintained, thus p
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