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Identifier: tourstoyellowsto584penn (find matches)
Title: Tours to the Yellowstone Park and Pacific Coast : July 3, August 6, September 3, 1906
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
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Publisher: (Philadelphia) : Pennsylvania Railroad
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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mnity this growing city. Situated at thehead of Puget Sound, Tacoma has one of the larg-est and safest harbors in the world. The shippingof the place is a study. Vessels of every class andtype load and unload at the huge docks. A trampsteamer is perhaps docked alongside of a Chinesetea merchantman, or a Southern fruiter close to aSouth American trader. Several hours may alsobe spent in visiting the huge mills. Visitors to Portland leave it with great regret.Beautifully situated at the confluence of the Wil-lamette with the Columbia, it is one of the mostimportant commercial centres of the Pacific Coast.The climate is pleasant, the scenery grand. Thecity slopes west from the river to a range ofhills from whose slopes and summits may be hada magnificent view of the city, valley, river, andmountain range, with five eternal snow peaksstanding out in bold relief and varying in heightfrom 9000 to 15,000 feet above sea level. FromFairmount, a pasture on the summit of one of the Portland,Ore.
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THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. western hills, may be had not only the grand viewto the eastward, but also one to the west, takingin the coast mountains bordering the PacificOcean. Looking to the north, )\Iount Rainier, 14,532feet high, peeps above the horizon, white anddazzling; a little to the right, but near at hand,lises the beautiful white cone of Mount St. Helens,9750 feet in height; farther away again and to thenortheast rises in its great, white, monumentalgrandeur Moimt Adams, 12,250 feet high; to theeast, and sixty miles distant, but seemingly, inthe clear atmosphere, nearer six miles away, standsMount Hood, the peculiar joy and glory of Ore-gonians. Mount Hood, 11,225 feet high, andwhite, immaculately so, with its glaciers and snowfields, is one of the most fascinating sights in theworld. Leaving Portland, the party will traverse oneof the wildest and most picturesque sections of theNorthwest. For nearly two hundred miles theroute follows the noble Columbia River. Thismagnificen

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