Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-06-26

NOTES OF A TOURIST-HAS TO GIT
TO YOSEMITE NOISY TRAVEL
ERS-THE ROAD-BROAD WHEAT
FiRI .DS-THE MARlPOSA BLACK
SNITH-PETE GARvEY-RPHRAIM
-THR BIG TREES OF MAkIPOSA-
LADIES IN BL0OMRR COSTUME
RIDING ASTRIDR-THE RATES OF
FARE-THOSR Noisy TRAVELLERS
AGAIN.
CLARx's RANCH. June 18th, 1872.
ED. NEWS: send you n few jour
nslistic notes and items of my TRIP,
more to give tourists the requisite In
formation for getting here, which |
could find only by experience, and in
some cases ut great Inconvenience.
Our Party
Left San Francisco by the 4 o'clock p.
II. train, o'.ausing cars ut Lathrop for
MERGED. Here Is a large new hotel
containing several hundred rooms,
built by the p. c. II. r. Company.
The table is not rs we'll furnished rs
its appearance would have one to ex-
pect. The beds arc irst.class, but we
did not enjoy them much, rs u party
who left San Francisco by the same
train, consisting Of Mr.. aud Mrs. Geo.
Bayley, Mrs. Charles r. Story, Mrs.
Charles Bonner, Miss G. n. FERRIS,
Miss Fannie b. Holster, Frank LOGAN,
E. fleming aud 5. V. Smith had been
indulging i little too freely In the good
| thing, provided for the campaign, and
| had reached that state which renders
people regardless Of Others rights or
comfort as we'll rs their own appear,
ance. The screams of the women, ana
loud laughing and talking Of all, pre-
vented any one from getting any sleep
50 when morning came we merrlly
took our seats In the elegant six.horse
| Kimball wagons and started on mt 4
spanking gait. For hours we rolled
| through one unbroEen field There are
10 fences in this county Of ripening
wheat.
The Grain Crops
Everywhere I have been In California
are luxurlantly abundant this season.
Farming now Is nearly all done BY
getting on some machine, with one OF
more span of horses attached, and driY'
ing over the land. consequently, fields
| of from GOO to thousands OF acres are
seen, Instead Of the small patches
called fields Of twenty years ago, when
the labor was nearly all performed oy
hand. At HornitoS we stopped foi
dinner, and u good one 1t was. the besl
one gets anywhere OIL the road. From
here our fresh train Don took US tc
Bear Valley, where we had the pleas
ure of a hearty welcome from the cele'
brated John Wilcox,
The "Mariposa Blacksmith"
Who the people Of that county appre
ciate so we'll that they have sent hin
Us their representative to the State Leg
i.lature most Of the time Tor the las
ten wears. Of giant stature, his hear
Is in keeping with his body. Flo Is 1
man OF natural ability and native
shrewdness. We Just had time to TAKE
something cooling with Hun lfor TN
day was very warm) when the "Boss
sung out
Gan AbsRrd.o
And away we bowled along over tin
beautiful rolling foothills covered will
their scattered scrubby oaks, for Mari
posa, which place we reached at 8 p
n. At this place we leave the Kim
ball and take the stage, called in com
mon parlance n "mud wagon" A:
our party only consisted Of three, ths
obliging agent, Mr.. Cook. sent US In Z
light two-seated wagon, with \ spank
Ing D OF horses and that irrepressi
BILE wag and perfect specimen OF al
early Californian,
Pete Garvoy,
To pavigate 1t. Under these favorable
conditions we were not long in reach
ing White s. Matches. where we wer'
made tolerably comfortable. Here w
found the party who had made nigh
hideous at MERGED, but fortunately fol
us, they were so used up that theJ
were glad to rest their aching heads
The next morning Pete induced us 4
take an early start by promising Us
A Treat Breakfast
At Clark's, II miles further on. So
A. NJ. found us rafting away ant
nearly splitting our sides at Pete
original ~comicalitles. At $40 A. N
we found ourselves at this place, til,
last point Of staging, and soon 81
down to our promised trout breakfast
the enjoyment Of which was consid
erably marred by the innumerabl'
swarins of flies that infest this place
After breakfast we obtained saddl,
horses and started OH a visit to tn
Big Trees of Mariposa, with Pet,
for our guide, rs none other was to b.
had. A short distance out we me
Ephraiin, q small boy Of the colorct
persuasion, one OF the regular guides
and We had to take a reluctant farewell
OF Pete. We held out solid Induce
ments for him to accompany us to tn
Yosemite Valley, but he had no time
The Big Trees.
This forest Is worth the trip up here
Of itself, for Its grand beauty Is indie
scribable. l will only give you a few
figures upon which you may rely, ant
let your imagination do the rest, for
feel that any language Is inadequate
to give you a correct idea of 1t, to SAY
nothing Of the small stock | can com
maud. This forest extends over aboI
four miles. and contains nearly 3O'
trees, forty OF which VIC saw ut ont
time. The Grizzly Giant, according
to our measurement, Is SO feet In cir
conference ; the Ferdinand de Lessep
s.; one which had fallen measured
$40 feet In length; and one, the hear
Of which was burned out two OF u
rode abreast through on full-slzet
American horses, and the log was a
least three feet thick over our head
besides. On our return we met
Tho Bailey Party,
As it Il called, going up. The female
portion were all in Boomers and rode
astride. This style OF dress Is not Q
necessity; an ordinary linen dress
with n tbicker one for the last part o.