Sacramento, the capital city of California, is a manufacturing and wholesale center, with an ever increasing and diversified trade extending up to central Oregon on the North, and to central Nevada on the East. Its post office receipts, school attendance, and directory returns, indicate the city has a population of practically 50,000. The railway shops of the Southern Pacific cover twenty acres, and employ 3,000 people. The rich tributary country about Sacramento amounts to 600,000 acres in area. Its bank capital and resources are greater than in many cities of over a hundred thousand people.
THE STEAMER “TAHOE” DAILY CIRCLES THE SAPPHIRE WATERS OF THE LAKE
Here was born the Central Pacific Railroad. Theodore D. Judah had been employed by a California company to build a road from Sacramento to Folsom (forty miles), but his eyes were ever turning Sierraward. At last he gained the attention of Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins, and the Crockers, and succeeded in interesting them in the stupendous project of building a railroad, which, in a hundred miles was to rise from about sea-level to almost half a mile; then to drop 3300 feet and then crossing ten ranges of mountains, was to find a way to meet the western end of a road from the Missouri, by the waters of Great Salt Lake.
LAKE TAHOE’S SHORES ARE RICH IN SHELTERED COVES WHERE THE TRANSPARENT WATERS REFLECT THE PINES
MOUNT TALLAC, ONE OF THE SNOW CLAD PEAKS THAT GUARD LAKE TAHOE: 9,785 FEET HIGH, IT IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE AND THE SCENES FROM ITS SUMMIT ARE OF GREAT BEAUTY
FROM THE SMALLER ATTENDANT LAKES DROP MANY BEAUTIFUL FALLS, WELL WORTH VISITING