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Title: The lure of the past, the present and future
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bryan, George W., ca. 1844
Subjects: Bryan, William Evermont Women Urbanization Real estate development Agriculture
Publisher: Los Angeles, E.G. Newton company, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s boss, I want you tocome to the house, for the ground needs the rain thatsoaks into your clothes. If the state of Nevada had to depend on its agricultureand it alone, it would be slim living, but it is rich in min-erals, and it has Reno, a city that gets much free adver-tising, for it has been made famous by divorces and prizefights; but we must sit up and take notice, for we areright in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains,and in a short time we are in California. These mountains differ widely from the Rockies. Wewere impressed with their beauty more than their grand-eur. We saw the fern and laurel, the pine and cedararound the horse shoe, one side several hundred feethigher than the other. Slowly we go up and up,, then welook down and see beautiful Donner Lake, called theGem of the Sierras, three and one-half miles long euidan average width of one mile and at the deepest pointsounded is about two hundred feet deep. It is surrounded 03 n » T! In d: - y rn ^ » o ?> K>
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THE PRESENT AND FUTURE 81 on three sides by towering mountains covered with agrowth of fir, spruce and pine trees. We look across orback far below and see the winding course wt have fol-lowed; up and up we go, higher and higher toils thetrain through the snow sheds and tunnels until the sum-mit is reached. The highest point passed by the South-ern Pacific is seven thousand feet above the level of thesea, and soon we are gong down the wcscern slope, nowhanging over the precipices, now winding around CapeHorn, said to be one of the grandest scenes on the Ameri-can continent, down and down until the valley is reached,cnd in a few hours we find ourselves at the capital city ofCalifornia. We can hardly conceive the wonderful changefrom an altitude of over seven thousand feet at the sum-mit, which is not the highest elevation of these pictur-esque mountains, for bleak and bare of verditre rise thepeaks around the summit to an altitude of over ten thou-sand feet. Scattering hardy spruce and

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