Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1914 — WORTH VISIT TO CALIFORNIA [ARTICLE]

WORTH VISIT TO CALIFORNIA

Sight of Mount Shasta, in its Glory and Beauty, Well Repays Tourist for Long Journey. The most impressive mountain In the world is Shasta in California. Unlike Pike's Peak and many other of the world’s great mountains, it is not surrounded by a number of lesser ones, and its tremendous height—l4,440 feet—is appreciated by the eye. It is sublimely grand, and yet gracefully beautiful. Against the blue of a California sky its curved outlines seem to sweep in the perfect segments of a circle from the apex of the cone to the horizon. Far up on its base the dark green of the timber-line is met by the virgin whiteness of Shasta’s snow, and then on, up and up, far past the summer clouds, points the alabaster pyramid. Shasta is an extinct volcano, and baa two large glaciers. The Whitney glacier Is visible from the railroad. It looks like a narrow streak of snow, but it is over a mile in width, and is seamed with great fissures and crevasses. At times a natural banner Is unfurled from Shaeta’s Peak. This is called the “snow banner of Shasta.” It only occurs .when the gale attacks the summit and blowß the snow in great gusts ‘‘streaming afainst the sky,’’ as the railroad book has it.