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 156 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA Daily. Extra fare. Lv. 11:20 A. M.; arr. 9:30 p. M. Other day and night expresses. Shasta Springs -San Francisco, Iv. 10:45 A.M. (Limited de luxe} ; arr. 8:50 P.M. By motor, Oakland - Williams - Red Bluff -Shasta Springs, 286 m. SAN FRAN Cisco -LAKE TAHOE, via Davis, Sacramento, Auburn, Truckee, 208 m. Time, 10y 2 to 11% hrs. by day and evening trains. Evening train from San Francisco ar- rives at Truckee in time to make connection for Tahoe City (15 miles), take breakfast at the Tavern, make the steamer trip around the lake, and connect for evening Overland Express to the east. All east and west-bound Southern Pacific trains on the Ogden Route allow a 10- day stop-over on through first-class tickets. Return fare, rail Truckee Tahoe, steamer around lake, rail back to Truckee, $6.00. During the winter season, November to May, the branch train leaves Truckee for Tahoe City (head of the lake) at 3 :30 p. M. on Tuesdays and Saturdays. By motor, Oakland - Sacramento - Auburn - Tahoe City, 252 m. En Route to Sacramento. ACROSS Suisun Bay from Benicia (famed in early days as the home of the " Benicia Boy ") at the junction of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Riv- ers, W. T. Sherman, when lieutenant in the U. S. army, surveyed the " Ranch of the Sand Dunes," with " reserves for churches, a university, State capitol, et cetera," which its Eastern sponsors hoped would become the terminus of a continental railroad. The prospective city was given " the aspiring but awkward name," New York-of-the-