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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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tance ofthirty miles. The way lies along thebanks of the Rogue River gorge, and it issimply magnificent scenery. There areplaces where you leave the car and standover the banks of that stream where therocks above almost join, so that the watersseem to dash through a tunnel, as it were.Everywhere there is leaping and tumblingover rock and fallen tree, and there ismaterial for the sketchbook at every turn.We found the source of the Rogue Riveron the west slope of the Cascade Dividenear the summit, where the altitude was6225 feet. The Government buildings arethere and there are signs of good care-taking and sjstem. It is only seven milesfrom there to Crater Lake, so we ran upand stood awhile on the edge of thatgreat natural bowl of rock that is sup-posed to be the remains of some hugevolcano whose top blew off and left anirregular saucer of several miles in diam-eter with precipitous sides overhangingthe bluest water that the ej^e of man evergazed upon. Leaving there, the road to Klamath
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Major Sever at Crater Lake in charge of Messrs.W. M. Shepard (right) and Perry Crawford (left.l. Pacific Service Magazine 243 Falls lies down the east slope of thedivide. It skirts Anna Creek gorge, ofgreat height and similar in scenery tothat of the Rogue River. An interestingfeature of the trip is the passing throughthe Klamath Indian Reservation, wherethere are signs of active industry underGovernment supervision. Fort Klamath the proposed site of a new dam which thecompanj has in contemplation and which,it is estimated, will raise the surface ofthe water four feet. The Klamath Fallspower plant is at the other end of thetown, and is used to supply electric lightfor the community. The distance fromCrater Lake to Klamath Falls is sixtv-

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