Crater Lake -Torture's mystery
See this and the whole Pacific Coast-~
Low summer fares start May 15
In southern Oregon is one of the scenic
wonders of the world. This is Crater
Lake, blue as indigo, round as a saucer
and six miles wide-—a deep lake occupying the cauldera or sunken pit of a
smashed volcano.
Ages ago the volcano, probably I $,-
000 feet high, held its flaming torch
above the Pacific's shore. Then it grew
cold, glaciers took form, and great rivers sprang away to cut the Klamath,
Rogue and Umpqua river valleys of today. At some date a cataclysm engulfed
the upper half of this vast mountain.
Seventeen cubic miles of stone sank inwards-— the mountain had swallowed
itself. In time, rain and melting snow
gave the pit a living lake.
In 1853 a party of prospectors were
ranging over the Cascade Mountains
in search of a lost mine The mine was
not to be found. But the horse of one
rider stopped suddenly, his feet planted
at a steep brink. A thousand feet below
lay this round, weird, flashing lake of
deepest blue. For years the magic lake
remained almost inaccessible, although stories of its mystery and
beauty spread around the world.
But today it is readily reached
from either the Siskiyou or the
Cascade line ofSouthern Pacific's
Shasta Route—a most enjoyable stopover between Portland
and San Francisco. Comfortable
motor stages in the travel season,
July 1 to September 20, connect
with Southern Pacific at either Med-
ford, Klamath Falls or Chiloquin to
bear the visitor through virgin forests
to the Lake's high, craggy rim. Good
accommodations are available at the
lake. With its surrounding forests, pinnacles and neighbor lakes, Crater Lake
is now a national park and playground.
See the whole Pacific Coast
Crater Lake is only one of the playgrounds accessible by Southern Pacific,
whose four great routes penetrate and
explore the West. No other railroad
offers such a choice of routes. You can
go west one way, return another; stopover anywhere on roundtrip ticket.
Mt. Rainier, the Columbia River highway, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, the Big
Trees—see and enjoy them all.
Very low summer fares will be in
effect May 1 5, return limit October
3 1. See any travel agent, or Southern
Pacific representative.
Write to E. W. Clapp, 3 i o S. Michigan Blvd., Chicago, for these two free
illustrated books: "Crater Lake" and
"How Best to See the Pacific Coast",
Southern Pacific
Four Great Routes