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.

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.

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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