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GENERAL INFORMATION 17 ing to San Francisco. Travellers who come west- ward by way of Ogden turn off at Truckee for the excursion to the Lake. The latter, one of the sights best worth while in all California, can also be reached by a link connecting the Western Pa- cific with the Southern Pacific (Hawley-Boca), thence Truckee - Tahoe City. San Francisco is the central point from which trips are made to the Lake and Geyser regions north of it, to pleasure-towns on the south, and to the Yosemite on the east. Stockton is at the estuary of several rail and stage roads which lead through mining country to the Calaveras Big Trees, to the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and to the Yosemite. Both the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific go to Merced, the starting-point of the Yo- semite Valley Railroad. Fresno is a railroad base for journeys to Kings and Kern River Canyons, to Mt. Whitney, highest peak in the United States, and to the Sequoia, Cal- ifornia and General Grant Big Tree Reserves. The deserts of Mono, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties are served by the Nevada and California Railroad and by the Tonopah and Tidewater. The first-mentioned goes north from Mojave, and on its way to Carson City and Reno passes below the eastern wall of the Sierra Nevadas. Los Angeles is capital of the territory which it is predicted will some day become the State of