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 14 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA British Columbia to Mission Junction, where pas- sengers are transferred to the Northern Pacific for Seattle, unless they have elected to go on to Vancouver to take the water route south. Those who prefer to forego the magnificence of the Canadian Rockies in order to reach the United States by a shorter road may change at Medicine Hat and continue to Spokane, State of Washing- ton, via Macleod and Yalt. From Spokane they will cross the mountains to Seattle, or go by the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation Line (part of the journey may be made by Co- lumbia River steamers) to Portland. From Port- land and Seattle there are through fast trains to Sacramento and San Francisco by the Shasta Route of the Southern Pacific. Or, as indicated under " Coastwise Steamers," one may go by water to all the principal ports of California from these northern points. The distance from Seattle to San Francisco by rail is 951 miles, from Portland to San Francisco, 771 miles. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway has built its own line from St. Paul into Seattle and Tacoma, traversing the wheat fields and rocky heights of the Northwest. The Great Northern is the only railway which passes through Glacier National Park, Montana. Rich as North America is in the combined scenic effects of snow peaks, glaciers, giant woods and