The southern terminus of the new rail line is at Klamath Falls. In the middle of the picture is Lower Klamath Lake with Mount Shasta in the background.
There is 9 feet of snow here and skiis are the proper thing. There is a great opportunity for winter sports here and the region is now readily accessible by rail.
This map shows the western stands of timber the same as they were two centuries earlier, for there was little more than mining going on in the West. But the East has already cut large areas of its timber; the north Atlantic coast is cleared and a great swath has been cut through the Ohio Valley, where there were hardwood forests that would be of immense value today. The settlers were still slashing and burning timber to clear farming land, with no attention paid to reforestation or future timber needs. This was the time of famous rail splitters. Notice the heavy stands of timber around Lakes Michigan and Superior and the almost unbroken timber of the South.
The colonists found a great stand of timber along the Atlantic coast, and as far west as the Mississippi. They used all they needed for building purposes, but the bulk of it was slashed and burned to clear land for farming. You will notice that the East at this time had a far more uniform stand of timber that the West had.
The Cascade National Forest was first withdrawn from the public domain in 1893 and set off under its present name in 1911. It has an area in public lands of over 1,000,000 acres, being about 1/3 larger than the state of Rhode Island. Roughly, it extends from McKenzie Pass on the north to Cowhorn Moutain on the South, and to Mount June and Reserve on the West. It includes practically all the head waters of both the McKenzie and Willamette Rivers. Some idea of the investment value may be gained from these figures--the gross income from this forest for fiscal year, 1929, was $137,000; part of which is paid to Oregon and Lane County for road and country purposes, and the balance used in protecting and developing the forest. The Reserve now has 858 miles of trails and 802 miles more of "ways" or rougher trails used in fire protection. It contains 105 miles of road built at a cost of $245,000; and has 550 miles of telephone. Primarily, the Cascase National Forest is a great reserve of timber, water and forage. But its secondary purpose, as a place of recreation, is growing in importance very rapidly. The men who administer the forest have a high sense of public service, and the traveler will almost invariably find the Forest Service man to be both well informed and eager to be of assistance.