Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-26
HEAD OF TAHOE.
How You Get There. The Stopping
Places. Tie People You Meet
There. The Drives, etc.

ninety-nine out Of every hundred Car
son1tes who have been over These
grounds and can talk about them bettel
than the undersigned. Our object, We
candidly confess, is to fill column, and
to avoid boring the unfortunate hun.
dredth man, if possible. To begin at
the beginning then, if You start from
Carson on Sunday, get off earlier than
four O'Clock in the morning. The rea-
son why is this: There are from sixteen
to twenty massive lumber teams plying
between Carson and the Lake which
load overnight and having no regard for
Gods day, are sure to stop you in the
morning, one after the other in embar-
RAISING, If not dangerous, places between
the Summit and the Glenb-ook. While
thus detained in an ineStricable fix YOU
neck down the steep grade in the gal
liant service of
PULLING GUN
From the pines down below for the pref
~ mouth of your sweetheart who during
your absence looks after the mustangs
above. You might have avoided this
trouble. however, if you had known las
you will surely be told when you have
gone through it, by turning to the left
by Spooner's fence and taking q parallel
road which the teams never travel.
TEE GLENERooK,
Which you finally reach, after having
been possibly for an hour within a
stones throw of its front door, presents
the LATEST aspect you ever saw. The
few persons you find there, who do not
tell you on their faces that they are Just
a little afraid they do not look nice
enough, are a relief. This is the high
toned rendezvous Of the head of the
Lake and the majority of those you find
there are unwilling to ride, fish or swim
except at times when their claims to
wall fiowerism may not be marred or
The parlor is rather the |
popular resort at the Glenbrook. There |
are others again there, to whom the at
mosphere of the parlor is not congenial.
The boys" call there sometimes. They
ike the best; and they have the money
70 pay for it. 1t gets pretty ''sick' for
hem, however, before long; and one
little crowd of sports disappears as if to
1--WE way for another. Occasionally a
handsome and moneyed card sharp
strikes gay and festive girl who is on
he tiirt. This fellow stays. They feed
7ou tolerably we'll at this hotel; but
hose who visit it this year will be struck
" the presence of multitudinous flies
md the absence Of Mrs. Prenderville's
xcellent management.
TIE RIDF
rom the Glenbrook to Small's Station,
t the base of the Sierras and eastern
erminus of the Kingsbury Grade, is one
f the most charming conceivable. The
Dad is fine and so hard that YOU may
send" your horses over its entire
angth without straining their muc-
les once, it runs all the way by the
bore which offers an unobstructed
lew of the magnificent body of water
ntire, and is marked by such character
tic scenes as Cave Rock and Zephyr
owe. The ride from Fridays station g.
now the residence of Senator Small of .
douglass to
''YANKs" NEW PLACE ,,
5 over harder and better road than :
lie other; and though not SO picturesque q
| lake scenery, the road runs for several /
Lies kiuCIuliI5 hOWIt.lll place. py | 1.
he shore upon ground considerably ele- =
eted above, and affor1ing full view of =
.e beautiful mountain sea. Tanks i
ace is nine miles from Fridays, and y
re from Rowland's. 1t has unques- L
onably the most L
BEAUTIFUL SITUATION ;;
any of the stopping places at the head =
the lake. The hotel is built about ~
rty yards from the edge OF the water, -
ID is surrounded by Immense pines, 3
no of which have been hewn down for I
arket. The grove in front offers u.
use shade during the entire day and (.
ounds in luxuriant native GRASSES and r,
rious kinds of ~
WILD TIOwEEET5. y:
1t is pleasing sight to watch tourists "
I'M other portions of the lake whsn a.
ay get off at Yank's landing. They y
sh, especially the ladies and children, l.!
: this grove, and in plucking the long W "
ISIS and culiing the pretty flowers they g.
, apt to spend all the time that the in Ia 4.
lgence Of the steamboat captain can I'd
mt. The
ACCOMMODATIONS
Yank's are limited, and, at present, Ct
the best. He is still building, how ia
II, and by the next season there is no n.
son why his stopping place may not Ju
the most attractive on the entire lake RI
re. by