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 First, as to Beauty

More people today are cognizant of the attractions of Nature than were aware of them yesterday and more will learn the lesson next year. Why? Because the automobile is showing us our own surroundings as we have had no way of knowing them before.

From Border to Border through the Wonderful West

To properly show forth in this modern manner the thousand wonders of our west coast, has purchased a six-cylinder touring car, induced E. Alexander Powell, F. R. G. S., to postpone for a little his impending trip into "Innermost Asia" and has bade him godspeed from the Mexican border to the mountain wall along the Alaskan line beyond Hazelton, in British Columbia. It will take Mr. Powell a year to set down, each month, the "Log of the Car" and this picture of the magnificent Farthest West, painted in the rainbow colors of its endless variety, by a man who has seen the wonder and the glory of "all the world beside" will be the most thorough work of its kind that has yet been done.

The International Expositions

There is always reason enough to come to see the wonders of the Pacific Coast, but in 1915 there will be an exciting cause which will turn westward the steps of countless thousands who might not otherwise be brought to the point of taking the trip. To celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal by the United States, our Government will hold in 1915 an international exposition at San Francisco, the site having been chosen in token of the importance of the Isthmian waterway to the Pacific Coast. This exposition will open in February, 1915, and its slogan is: "the exposition that will be ready." Thus 1914 must see its mighty preparations practically completed and is now in a position to keep step, upon the very site itself, with the building of the World's Fair and to set forth, each month, the progress upon buildings and grounds and in the gathering of the materials for the vast exhibition of the world's best in things and ideas. The Exposition site is now a hive of fascinating industry, the cream of which will be shown in these pages, where the progress of the correlated Exposition at San Diego will also be followed.

Hearthstones De Luxe

One of the elements in the "double personality" of the West is found in the existence, in a new land where homes are being carved from the wilderness, of magnificent residences, housing the beauty and the culture of the centers of civilization. Some of these wonderful homes will be shown in throughout 1914 in attractive pictures and with first-hand comment by Porter Garnett, litterateur and art critic, who has had access to the libraries and art-galleries and wonder-gardens of these homes deluxe.

And Now as to Development

During the fifteen years of its life, has led in telling the story of the happenings in the great West. In this undertaking it has become a recognized authority. Its pages will continue to present the truth of this new and desirable land, to tell the miracle-tale of reclamation and settlement and to show forth the work and the achievements of the builders of this empire-in-the-making. But, in addition to this task which it has already performed worthily, the Magazine is to add next year a special concrete service to the constantly increasing number of men and women to whom these articles appeal.

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