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 GENERAL INFORMATION 15 Seattle, and Osaka Shosen Kaisha from Tacoma and Seattle, have regular sailings for principal ports in Japan and China.

Routes.

A circular tour of the chief natural features of the American Northwest may be conveniently arranged if tickets are taken over the Great Northern to Glacier National Park, thence through the Lake region of Northern Idaho to Spokane, from which point there is direct access by three trunk lines over the Cascade Range to the Puget Sound country. The return journey may be made from Seattle to Portland, from where there is a choice of two all-rail routes to Spokane, and a water and rail route along the Columbia part way to Spokane. The same tour can be made in inverse direction by entering the charmed scenic circle at Portland by the Southern Pacific line or by water routes from California; at Seattle by steamers from the south and north, or by three railroads connecting with Canada; and at Spokane by the Northern Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. The Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line and Oregon - Washington Railway and Navigation Company make possible the same tour, beginning on the Columbia River half way between Portland and Spokane; or at Spokane, via a branch of the O.-W. R. and N. Co. from Pendleton, Ore. The magnificence of Crater Lake National Park in Southern Oregon rewards the long journey by rail and water, even if one must retrace one's steps by the Southern Pacific to Portland in order