. Tour of the continent : Colorado, California & Yellowstone National Park : special train, personally conducted via New York Central & Hudson River and connecting lines . GOI-DKN GATE. In the evening, Monday, the Special will be transferredto the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railway, the schedulehaving been arranged so as to cross the Sage Brush Desertduring the night, arriving at Reno, one of the thriftiest citiesin Nevada, in the morning. Soon after leaving Reno wecommence the ascent of the Cascade Mountains, an experi-ence never to be forgotten. Past fir-clothed peaks, whosebold hea
. Tour of the continent : Colorado, California & Yellowstone National Park : special train, personally conducted via New York Central & Hudson River and connecting lines . GOI-DKN GATE. In the evening, Monday, the Special will be transferredto the tracks of the Southern Pacific Railway, the schedulehaving been arranged so as to cross the Sage Brush Desertduring the night, arriving at Reno, one of the thriftiest citiesin Nevada, in the morning. Soon after leaving Reno wecommence the ascent of the Cascade Mountains, an experi-ence never to be forgotten. Past fir-clothed peaks, whosebold heads are lost in the clouds, and along mountain. streams, that swirl and eddy madly beside the track, andthen lost in .some profound abyss. At Summit we are 7700feet above the tide-water, arriving at Auburn, one of romantic and picturesque spots in the the night passing through the valley of the Sacramento,where the orchards of olives and oranges sleep with everyfruit and flower of the Mediterranean zone, through Sacra^mento, the Capital of the State. In the morning the train sweeps into the outskirts ofOakland, and down the whole length of the mile-long pierto where the huge ferry awaits to carry you to the place ofyour hopes—the city built on a hundred hills, arriving atSan Francisco Wednesday morning. San Francisco. San Francisco has a population of over 300,000, and isone of the most interesting cities in America. It rests onthe shores of San Francisco Bay, six miles from the PacificOcean, and while farther south than New York City, it iscooler in the month of July by 17 degrees; the evenings, inparticula
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