Life Magazine advertisement - vol. LII, no. 1364 - price 10 cents - December 24, 1908. "California in Mid-Winter - California affords opportunity for the enjoyment of every outdoor recreation. Mountains, Plains and Seashore offer their various forms of pastime, and the balsamic atmosphere, heavily laden orchards and profusion of flowers make it a paradise of repose. Sunshine, fruit and flowers everywhere. Spend your winter amid these healthful surroundings. - The best route for comfortable travel and picturesque scenery between the East and California is the Southern Pacific Sunset Route." Trains of superior equipment - oil burning locomotives - automatic block signals - rock ballast roadbeds - safety and comfort, all the way, day and night. Choice of routes from Eastern points via New Orleans, with 10 days stop over privilege in this delightful, quaint city. 固opFoto