ORCHARD AND COUNTRY HOMES IN THE FRUITFUL FOOTHILL REGION OF PLACER COUNTY Placer County offers some of the best opportunities for the home seeker, and has numerous natural resources. Gravel and Quartz Mines, Granite and Pottery Works, Grain, Dairying and Fruit Placer County has many favored sections for the cultivation of Oranges The first Oranges shipped from the State for this season were from Placer. Also 35 per cent of all the deciduous Fresh Fruits are shipped from Placer. On the main line of the SOUTHERN PACIFIC. For information address Secretary or any of the officers of the above Association. J. H. WILLS, Secretary. IN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION SUNSET SUNSET MAGAZINE COPYRIGHTED, 1903: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Entered at the San Francisco Postoffice as Second-Class Matter APRIL, 1903 COVER DESIGN-Sunset in the Golden Gate.. A CALIFORNIA EASTER MASS (Frontispiece) AT VESPERS IN TOKIO (Verse) Full page drawings by William Stevens. OUR SHARE IN ORIENTAL COMMERCE.. Illustrated from photographs by Tibbitts and Uchiyama. "GOOD'N 'NOUGH FER ME!" (Verse) KURINO TOMOYUKI-A Story of the Death of a Japanese Outlaw.. ALL IN THE END WILL BE RIGHT (Verse). THE MACKENZIE OF OREGON.. Illustrated from photographs by Winter, Fairbanks, Hodgson. SUNSHINE AS POWER Illustrated from photographs by Graham, Los Angeles. A MIDWINTER ARBOR DAY.... THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD (Verse) THE "DIVINE FASTIDIOUSNESS" (Essay) TARANTULA TRADERS TUCSON OF TODAY. A PAIR OF APRIL FOOLS (The California Bushtit). J. O. Brubaker Charles K. Field Joaquin Miller Earle Ashley Walcott .E. A. Brininstool .Adachi Kinnosuke Alfred J. Waterhouse .L. Clare Davis .Allan B. Jaynes Elizabeth Grinnell "I AM NOT, AS ONE MIGHT INFER”—Fantasy by Childe Harold... Edward Salisbury Field THE GLITTERING I..... The Ancient Mariner WITH THE CAMERA--San Francisco's Next Photographic Salon-Blossom Time—California Camera Club Election-National Convention-Pinhole Photography. THE COURSE OF EMPIRE-Standard Track, Southern Pacific, Los Angeles Division— New Depot at San Antonio-Atlantic Type Locomotives. PLAYS AND THE PLAYERS-Mascagni in San Francisco (Porter Garnett) -Portraits of Mascagni, Maude Fealy, Lillian Albertson, William Keller Mack, Mrs. Patrick Campbell-Notes. BOOKS AND WRITERS—What Edwin Markham Is Doing (Leavenworth Macnab)— George Sterling-"In the Footprints of the Padres" (Henrietta Williams)—"The Ship of Dreams" (Wilmetta Curtis)-Portrait of Charles Keeler. SUNSET RAYS-The West-A Toast (Elwyn Hoffman)-Songs Without Words (Jessie Juliet Knox)-I Love Thee (Jessamine Anderson)—The Whistling Owl-A Romance of the Sunset Limited-Praise for SUNSET. SUNSET is published monthly by the Passenger Department, Southern Pacific, 4 Montgomery street, San Francisco, California. The subscription price is One Dollar a year, Ten Cents a copy. Its circulation is world wide. It is the only magazine that faithfully tells, by pictures and text, of the wonders of California, and of the Nation's western border land. It is notable for the number and artistic merit of its engravings. Its contributors are among the best writers and illustrators in the country. It is edited by Charles Sedgwick Aiken. The representative business houses advertise in its pages. It is distributed by the San Francisco News Company, the American News Company and connections. CONTRIBUTIONS are desired relating to western development, to the arts, industries and resources, to be accompanied, wherever possible, by good, clear photographs. Address all communications to Jas. Horsburgh, Jr., Southern Pacific, 4 Montgomery street, San Francisco, California. SUNSET'S New York address is 349 Broadway; Chicago, 193 Clark street; London, 49 Leadenhall street. There is no more delightful holiday than a trip to California. And the best time to go is now-in March or April. California is at its best then. The hills and valleys are clothed in green; millions upon millions of wild flowers are in bloom, and the air is as invigorating as a tonic. Best of all, the Yosemite Valley opens April 1. You can visit it after you have seen southern and central California. The five-day stage ride through this valley of wonders is a fitting culmination to the California pilgrimage. The way to go to California is via the Golden State Limited Newest, handsomest and most luxuriously equipped of transcontinental trains. LEAVES CHICAGO SEMI-WEEKLY Less than three days to Los Angeles. Through cars to Pasadena, Los Passenger Traffic Manager, Rock Island System, Chicago, Ill. IN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION SUNSET San Mateo County Was formerly a part of San Francisco and lies south of San Francisco on the peninsula, with the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Francisco Bay on the other. San Mateo County thus forms the only approach by land to San Francisco. Railway freight and passenger traffic from the Atlantic seaboard already crowd this great natural highway leading to the Pacific metropolis, into whose lap pours the wealth of the great mining districts, the almost virgin timber country of the northwest coast, the countless thousands of acres of fruit and waving grain, and the great and expanding commercial trade of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Central and South America, the Isthmus of Panama, Honolulu, Australia and the Orient. IN THE REDWOOD FORESTS BETWEEN LA HONDA AND PESCADERO The Third Township of San Mateo County * * Electric railways with terminals in the very heart of San Francisco-with "transfer" privilege to any part of that city-are now opening up San Mateo county, and San Francisco and San Mateo county will soon again be practically "one" In the THIRD TOWNSHIP of San Mateo county, in addition to various industrial and educational advantages will be found the union of typical California scenery and California climate under sunny skies. The Third Township embraces within its boundaries the thriving communities, Redwood City (county seat), Menlo Park, Fair Oaks, Woodside, Portola and La Honda (see illustration). For the man of business, wealth or leisure, here is an attractive territory. For information concerning either. locality, address Redwood City Improvement Club, Redwood City, California IN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION SUNSET |