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 GENERAL INFORMATION glacial lakes, there is no region more beautiful than this which the Government, abetted by the Great Northern Road, has recently made accessi- ble to the tourist. The Northern Pacific's bait to the traveller is the Yellowstone National Park, which is also reached by the Great Northern. The Western Pacific, which comes west via Denver and the Royal Gorge, has forged a pioneer route through the sports- men's and vacationists' country of the Feather River Canyon. The Union Pacific takes its patrons via Denver, shows them the bold beauties of the Colorado Mountains with the aid of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway, and, when it has introduced them to the city of the Great Salt Lake, and perhaps carried them overnight to the Yellowstone, con- signs them to the new Salt Lake - Los Angeles Road, or to the Southern Pacific, successor to the Central Pacific, the historic iron way which first supplanted the wagon-train of the immigrant. The original trail is followed over Truckee Pass into California. The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake " Short Line " traces the steps of the Mormon pioneers of 1851 from Utah to San Bernardino, California, through wild gorges and across plains of verdure and sand. The sun-blistered path of the adventurers who