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...engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...acres of timber went up. Dry electric storms were the main cause, but in some cases miscreants were suspected of making jobs for themselves as fire fighters. On St. Swithin's Day alone, electric storms had started 200 fires in northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National Forests were all on fire. Smoke hung over the high Sierras as far as Reno. Nev. It blinded forest lookouts, prevented them from spotting new outbreaks. Ships in Puget Sound used fog horns as the pall from the biggest fire of all, the worst in British Columbia...
...accounts of bicycling, skating and the old Princeton cane spree, all of which are highly entertaining. The illustrations in this Outing deserve particular attention-they are much better than those found in the ordinary magazine. Those who are interested in western mountain life will enjoy reading "Shasta of Siskiyou," and "Lost in the Rockies," a story of Avalanche Gulch, near Helena, Montana...
...contains several worthy articles. It begins with a serial story "In a Far Countree." The idea is original, being no less apparently than the adventures of a hunter who, awakening from a sleep, finds himself about the size of an ant. His curious adventures are vividly portrayed; "Shasta of Siskiyou," another unfinished article, treats of Northern California. It is by Charles Howard Shinn. Following this are articles on "r lash Light Photography," by W. I. L. Adams; "Two Days," a poem by C. P. Shermon; "A Vermont Fox Hunt," by O. W. Hard; "Miniary Cycling," by Charles Turner; "The Brook...