Guidebook of the Western United States Volume 614; Part D. the Shasta Route and Coast Line Paperback - 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...point for much of the southern part of the Klamath Mountains, especially the region drained by Trinity River and about Weaverville, a Redding. town 50 miles from Redding, reached by a daily auto mation 557 feet. mobile stage. The basin in which Weaverville stands Sertttefflw'mjies' nas Deen tne "chest and most persistently productive gold-placer region of northern California. At the La Grange mine, reported to be the largest hydraulic mine in the world, about 1,000 cubic yards of gravel is washed each hour. A stage line runs eastward from Redding across the low Cascade Range north of Lassen Peak to Alturas, which is within the Great Basin, east of the Pacific coast mountain belt. Redding is built on the division of the older alluvium of Sacramento Valley that has been named the Red Bluff formation. The railroad cuts in the plain south of the town show much coarse gravel belonging to this formation. To the west the gravel laps up over a terrace that is traceable around the northwest border of the Sacramento Valley and is continuous with the terrace along the river above Redding, already noted. Beyond the terrace may be seen to the northwest the rounded form of Bally Mountain (6,246 feet), composed of granodiorite, and in the west the sharper form of Bully Choop (7,073 feet), composed of peridotite. At milepost 253 the railroad crosses Clear Creek, which drains the French Gulch mining district and on which is Horsetown, noted for its formerly active placer mines and for its Lower Cretaceous fossils. To the northeast the horizon shows the outlines of the numerous conical volcanic hills characteristic of this part of the Cascade Range. The highest of them is Lassen Peak (10,437 feet), an active volcano recently in eruption. To the left, farther north, is C...