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, 1915. Knight Landing

Wonderful Scenic Drive Through the Feather River Country

California is so big, so varied in its geographical and topographical features that the motorist may travel for weeks and always encounter fresh scenes and a new variety of mountain, sea or valley scenery to refresh his mind and eye.

With such an amazing length and breadth of country to select from when, in planning his tour, it is small wonder that the motorist unfamiliar with our splendid State, should be somewhat at sea as to just where to go.

With the Yosemite Valley, Lake Tahoe, the Big Trees and the wonderful scenic High Sierras calling for a visit, it is indeed a problem to select a tour that will truly represent the best the State can offer from a scenic standpoint.

One of the most wonderful sections of the State is that known as the Feather River Canyon country, the district that borders on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in Northern California, possesses the eternal beauty of those pine covered, snow clad hills. This country has become of late the Mecca for the traveler in search of health and recreation.

With the idea of seeing for themselves the wonderful scenery of the Feather River country a party consisting of K. W. Barkman, Burleigh Davison, C. S. Nordell and Tom Prior recently made a tour through this interesting section and received a splendid impression of the beauty of that country.

Going by way of Stockton, Sacramento and Marysville to Oroville, made the latter city their base of operations for the run into the Feather River country. It was with much regret that the party learned from Secretary Ward of the Chamber of Commerce that the Feather River Canyon road was closed. Those who have passed through this canyon either by train or foot, claim that this route is one of the most beautiful in the State. Following the windings of the Feather River, the traveler witnesses vista after vista of wonderful mountain and canyon country. Waterfalls, rapids,