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 CHAPTER I GENERAL INFORMATION Transportation to California Steam and Electric Rail- ways within the State Local and Coastwise Steamers Cabs and Street Cars Routes Telegraph and Tele- phone Lines Money Language and Names Climate and Seasons. Transportation. Rail to California. FOUR continental railroads have their western terminals in California. The Western Pacific, af- filiated with the Denver and Rio Grande (Denver - Salt Lake City), continues from Salt Lake via Winnemucca, Nevada, passes through country never before traversed by a railway, descends the Feather River Canyon (Plumas County) to Oro- ville, Marysville, Sacramento and Stockton, turns west to Niles and north to Oakland, from whence passengers are ferried to San Francisco. The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railway, which crosses Utah and Nevada and en- ters California on its own tracks, joins the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe at Daggett, and there- after proceeds on leased trackage to Los Angeles and the port of San Pedro, thus forming a new