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The Shasta Springs Resort in the early 1900s. A Tramway began on the upper floor of the building and went to the springs. The bottom floor was a gift shop and Wells Fargo Express office. The building at the front housed a drinking fountain which spouted the mineral springs water.

In 1898 when the cars stopped at Shasta Springs, passengers crossed the platform to the ornate spring house to try the therapeutic qualities of the waters In an innocent age it was one of the pleasures of the trip. So Noted was Shasta that a sketch artist for Harper's executed a full page likeness of passengers taking the water in the accepted traveling attire of the period which, for men, included white linen spatterdashes and for ladies, all-white ensembles despite the absence of air conditioning.