Reno : a book of short stories and information . description: the beautifulsummer days are mild and rainless. Themain peaks of the western range are: MountKing, Mount Gardner and Mount Brewer;those of the eastern range: Mount Kearsage,Mount Tyndall, Mount Williamson andMount Whitney. Mount Whitney is thehighest peak in the United States outside ofAlaska, rising 1 4,898 feet above sea other main peaks of the Sierra Nevadasexceed 13,000 feet in altitude. The peaksnearest Reno are: Mount Rose and PeavinMountain, both of which can be seen fromany part of the City of Reno. In this setting
Reno : a book of short stories and information . description: the beautifulsummer days are mild and rainless. Themain peaks of the western range are: MountKing, Mount Gardner and Mount Brewer;those of the eastern range: Mount Kearsage,Mount Tyndall, Mount Williamson andMount Whitney. Mount Whitney is thehighest peak in the United States outside ofAlaska, rising 1 4,898 feet above sea other main peaks of the Sierra Nevadasexceed 13,000 feet in altitude. The peaksnearest Reno are: Mount Rose and PeavinMountain, both of which can be seen fromany part of the City of Reno. In this setting nestles our much-talked-of Gem City of Nevada—the city of heart-throbs and dreams! Its chief industries, Iwould say, are gold and love .... One lesspoetic might call these mining and divorce. Next to its dreamy, romantic side, Renohas a very practical side: its position as abusiness center. The railroads radiatingnorth, east, south and west, give it an enor-mous tributary territory. There are modernbusiness blocks, department stores, excel-. RENO 147 lent hotels. The best hotels are: The HotelGolden, the Riverside and the Overland. Reno is a city of beautiful residences,trees and shrubbery; asphalt and macadamstreets. There are fine public buildings, li-braries and theatres of the first magnitude. One of the most noteworthy features ofReno is its beautiful schools. There aresix besides the High School and the Univer-sity; Orvis R-ing School, McKinley ParkSchool, Southside School, Mt. Rose School,Mary S. Doten School and the BabcockMemorial Kindergarten. The architectureis the old mission, and it is difficult todecide which one really excels in from the beautiful architecture, theseschools are all equipped with every moderndevice for the training of the younger gen-eration, both physically and mentally. Neverin any public school have I seen such a splen-didly equipped Domestic Science room as theone in the McKinley Park School. Its beau-tiful open, airy Assembly
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