Siskiyou County California

the Klamath Lakes in the northeastern corner of Siskiyou County and SouthernOregon. Nearby, where the summer sun first glows warmly over rosysnow-peaks, Butte Valley spreads its wide expanse. Between this valley, oncea lake subsequently filled with sediments, and the Shasta Valley, the GooseNest Mountain range rises to an altitude of 8,450 feet, its shoulders thicklyfeathered with forests. Along the northern border of the county roll thetimbered ridges of the Siskiyou Mountains.The geology of this county is revealed in many interesting features.Mount Shasta and a series of other volcanic cones form a line of extinct"fire-mountains" which extend into Oregon. The lavas poured from thesevents were rich in potash, iron and lime, and their subsequent decompositionhas added great fertility to the soils of the valleys below them. Glaciershave reached down from their snowy reservoirs to perform their useful workfor man, plowing and harrowing the valleys, and spreading a top dressing offine silt for the delight and profit of the farmer of today. Five livingglaciers still are sculpturing the dome of Shasta. Numerous mineral springs,such as the celebrated Shasta Springs, Upper Soda Springs, Table Rock, Ney's,Garretson 's, and Klamath Hot Springs, burst forth from the rocks in manylocalities.The volcanic formation looms high toward the eastern horizon; westwardfrom the railway, the axes of the Scott Mountain and Salmon River rangesare granitic. Sediments washed from these eroded ridges contain high percentagesof potash, as evidenced in the fertile bottom lands of Scott Valley.Northward towards the Klamath River, the transition to metamorphicrocks is noticeable by the alteration of this strata. A belt of highly mineralizedslates, schists, porphyries and serpentine, traverses the county northerlyfrom the Salmon Mountains to the Siskiyous. Rich ore bodies are found alongthe entire course of this mineral belt, from which nearly $150,000,000 in goldhas been taken, and vasts deposits of copper, located to the north of theKlamath River, are soon to be developed upon a scale comparable only toMontana and Michigan.Between the Klamath River and its interesting tributary, Scott River, theMarble Mountain Range culminates in a castellated peak, 8,295 feet in elevation.Composed of limestone, a large mass of which is marble of high commercialvalue, this natural wonder is faseinating both from a scenic point ofview and from practical considerations of its future utility.Scenic AssetsThe scenic attractions of Siskiyou County are among its assets which cannot be appraised too high. For many years tourists and pleasure seekers havemade many pilgrimages to the great white shrine of 1lount Shasta. Althoughit is still accessible only to the hardy mountaineer, the time is near when anautomobile road will enable thousands in a season to approach its timberlineto linger there and look up to its supernal snowfields at close range.The Castle Crags, which share their glories with Shasta County, may bereadily reached from Dunsmuir in the canyon of the upper Sacramento River.Near the fountains of this famous stream are a series of seductive resortswhere the summer visitors revel in the forests and beside trout-teemingstreams. From Sisson, in the enchanting Strawberry Valley, the MeCloudRiver Railway curves around the southern spurs of Shasta to the headwatersof this famous trout stream.Northward from the watershed dividing the Sacramento and Shasta rivers,a branch line of the Southern Pacific leads to the Klamath Lake region, anoted rendezvous of sightseers and sportsmen.For the lover of a primal, forested wilderness, Yreka is the jumping-offplace where stages run daily to romantic retreats far among the virgin solitudesof the Salmon River and its mountains. Not for the tourist alone are