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 November, 1913.

��MOTORING MAGAZINE AND MOTOR LIFE

���Summit of Rubicon Point, Lake Tahoe.

��Photos by Claude McOee.

��break should be made; from Auburn the route takes one past Colfax, Gold Run, Dutch Flat and Emigrant Gap, which by their names, stamps the existence of these towns as beginning in the days of the gold fever. It is around this section that some of the most interesting tales told by Bret Harte are laid.

From Auburn, on past Emigrant Gap to the summit, it is a steady climb; it is constantly going up, up over easy grades through wonderful and picturesque coun- try which defies description of pen and ink, until the last hundred feet is reached, which is the heaviest grade to be encountered.

Over the summit of the divide, one drops sharply to the left for two hundred feet to the snow-sheds, going through snow shed number six. It would be well to mention here that those making the trip, in passing through the snow sheds, should send some one ahead to see that no trains are approaching. From Emi- grant to the summit the snow sheds have to be crossed four times, and while it is easy to detect the approach of freight or passenger trains, yet it is impossible to hear the approach of returning locomo- tives which coast down the grade.

As one crosses snow shed number six

��to the other side, there bursts into view the grandest picture of the trip in the foreground, and to the left mounts jagged rocks without the slightest sign of vege- tation. It is like the climax to earth's

��volcanic upheaval. Then as the eye turns to the right, it picks up the road, which drops down sharply through the jftgged rocks for nearly a thousand feet to the green, fertile plateau in which nes-

���James I. McMullen and a party of friends returning from a deer hunt

Jeffery car.

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