Scenic Mount Lowe and Its Wonderful Railway

Name: Scenic Mount Lowe and Its Wonderful Railway
Author: James, George Wharton

James, George Wharton

California -- Description and travel; California, Southern -- Description and travel; Lowe, Mount (Los Angeles County, Calif.) -- Description and travel; Mount Lowe Railway

SCENIC MOUNT LOWE

BY GEORGE WHARTON JAMES.

IN AND AROUND THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO RIVER IN ARIZONA

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THE INDIANS OF THE PAINTED DESERT REGION

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INDIAN BASKETRY.

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HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS.

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IN AND OUT OF THE OLD MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA

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TRAVELERS HAND BOOK TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

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_The Grandest Railway in the World_

SCENIC MOUNT LOWE

AND ITS

WONDERFUL RAILWAY

How the Sierra Madre Mountains have been surmounted by
Electric Cars, and the most Beautiful and Grand Views of
Mountain, Valley and Ocean Scenery made accessible to all

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED

FIFTH EDITION

BY

GEORGE WHARTON JAMES

AUTHOR OF

Travelers' Hand-book to Southern California
  In and Out of the Old Missions of California
    In and Around the Grand Canyon
      The Indians of the Painted Desert Region
  Indian Basketry; How to make Indian and other Baskets
Etc., Etc.

1905
PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

MOUNTAINS.

     Centuries old are the mountains;
     Their foreheads wrinkled and rifted,
     Helios crowns by day,
     Pallid, serene by night;
     From their bosoms uptossed
     The snows are driven and drifted
     Like Lithonus' beard
     Streaming, disheveled and white.

     Thunder and tempest of wind
     Their trumpets blow in the vastness;
     Phantoms of mist and rain,
     Cloud and the shadow of cloud,
     Pass and repass by the gates
     Of their inaccessible fastness;
     Ever unmoved they stand,
     Solemn, eternal and proud.

               --LONGFELLOW
                 in "The Mask of Pandora."

CONTENTS.

                                                             PAGE

Mountains, by Longfellow                                        4

Man's Love for the Mountains                                    7

Distinguished Testimony                                        13

Mount Lowe Railway                                             21

Origin of the Mount Lowe Railway                               23

Rubio Canyon                                                   27

Great Cable Incline                                            29

Echo Mountain                                                  31

Echo Mountain House                                            33

Lowe Observatory                                               35

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Scenic Mount Lowe and Its Wonderful Railway

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