MT. SHASTA, ONE OF THE PICTURESQUE PEAKS OF THE SIERRA NEVADA, ON THE LINE OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC, BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., AND PORTLAND, ORE.

CALIFORNIA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO

ITS METROPOLIS

A CONCISE STATEMENT CONCERNING THE STATE THAT FACES
THE ORIENT, AND THE CITY BY THE GOLDEN GATE.
UNDISPUTED FACTS AND TELLING FIGURES FROM
VARIOUS AUTHENTIC AND OFFICIAL SOURCES CON-
CERNING THE GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATE,
COMMERCE, OUTLOOK, RESOURCES, INDUSTRIES AND
PEOPLE PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.

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COMPILED BY

CHARLES SEDGWICK AIKEN

1903

1HE CALIFORNIA PROMOTION COMMITTEE

OF SAN FRANCISCO

PUBLISHERS

Let me arise, and away

To the land that guards the dying day,
Whose burning tear, the evening-star,

Drops silently to the wave afar;

The land where summers never cease
Their sunny psalm of light and peace.
Whose moonlight, poured for years untold,
Has drifted down in dust of gold;

Those morning splendors, fallen in showers,
Leave ceaseless sunrise in the flowers.

-EDWARD ROWLAND SILL.

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