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 ambition of prospective climbers until August 12, 1888, when Hay L. Fanner and E. C. Cross, both of Salem, Oregon, reached its apex. Since then others have climbed Mt. Jefferson, but thcgr are few as compared with those who have reached the summits of the other noted mountains of Oregon. Both the Qackamas and Santiam rivers find their sources near the base of Mt. Jefferson, which presents a formidable exterior of sheer precipices, forbidding ridges of snow, dangerous crevasses and jagged promontories that excite admiration and awe. The region about the mountain abounds in scores of lakes surrounded by dense forests and vast glaciers which have withstood the alow movemmt of die a^ett. The wintry storms pile up huge ever<«hanein(? snow drifts, which annually obliterate the route traversed bv mountain climbers. Owing to its difficult acceasibilitv this resrion affords a splendid place for huntins such wild 'animals as abound in the Northwest This with many weird attractions, makes Mt. Jefferson one of the most popular resorts on die Pacific boast for diose who love to encounter Nature where the hand of man hath not defiled.

Mf. Jpffcrsov in the Tee AflC Ira A. Williams\ Professor of Ceramic Engineering. Oregon Agricultural College^ (1918), tells us that **Mt Jefferson appears to have been a gathering ground for snows that in the ages past doublless fell much more copiously than now. Surely the mountain must have been a great white dome so deeply snow-cov* ered that scarce a point of rock ^owed through. From its sides great glaciers moved in all directions; far out to the north and south along the summit, as w^ as down Uie range slopes to the east and west did the iheets of moving ice spread, occupying die river canyons and grinding away lYol 2, No, I, "Mineral Resources of Oregoa".