Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-12
SANTA Barbara, Calf
Aug. 8, 1873.
HOW TO GET THERE.

Bus fare, Carson &c
| One ticket bought 2: the '. L. Il. T.
| S:stion) from Carson 10 San Francisco. 10 sc
| Oysters st Reno. the Well regulated travel
ing stomach always requires oysters st
Meals between Carson snd San Francisco. 1 80
Coach hire 10 your hotel in San Francisco:
never take ''carrisge' unless you
have an intention and . necessity OF
being extravasaHt, and never take the
liorsc cars unless you belong in, or wish
to AFFECT rustie's familiarity with, the
city . 80
Two days at first class hotel in San Fran
cisco, never bivouac on your friends
nor your wife's relstiveS. nor think OF
the What Cheer House when travelling
for pieasurei -.-.-....-..... 10 90
Passage per Constantine or Ventura
tstsanier) by sea from San Francisco to
santa BARBARA 10 10
This steamer price includes meais.J
1t will strike the general reader and
traveller that this is pretty cheap. So it
is. The steamer travel has been thus
cheapened by the putting ON of an OPP
position line OF vessels which ply be
tween San Francisco on the north and
San Buenavuentra 80 miles south OF
Nelson 4 Perkins of San Francisco
(ofice corner Of Clay and East streets,
water 'front.' being the proprietors. We
came down on the Constantine, a
tight and tidy little propeller whose
machinery was constructed by the
Messrs. L. Stephenson ( Co.. Newcastle
on Tyne, England. We left Market
street wharf st few minutes past
O'Clock on Saturday afternoon-which is
the time for the sailing of both the YES
sells of this line. The other ship is the
Ventura This is the old U. s. gum
boat raced and reconstructed in accord
ance with the requirements of peace and
commerce.
1t costs you S22 to come by rail to
Gilroy and thence BY stage to Santa Bar
bara-and you buy your own rations.
But then you avoid sea sickness and the
dangers of the deep.
You pays your money and you takes
your choice. A life on the ocean wave
will do me very well under this contrast
Of prices. But the stages run every day |
and carry the mails. The Pacific Mail |
Company also run line of
steamers between these Southern ports |
and San Francisco. These are the
.'Orizaha' and the ''Mohonso.' The
people who have had experience in this
coast travel express preference for the |
line by one of whose steamers I came. |
Certainly the ''Cons.antine's" appoint |
men:s are excellent; her officers polite
and competent and her fare good. We |
we're nearly forty-five hours making the
rip. We should have arrived at the
wharf here in the morning of Monday
put our Captain had some freight to de-
liver at Gaviota, landing place about
IL miles this side of Point Conception
md place at which the stores are put
ashore for the light house which Uncle
sam maintains at the Point. A deten-
ion of several hours Of Sunday night
md Monday morning precsded the de-
livery of our Gaviota freights and it was
quite 10 o'clock of Monday forenoon
1efore we got away from there. There
S no wharf at the place and but a few
hundred yards of beach; so our purser
md force of sailors carried the freight
.shore in lighter which was not rowed
,ut warped along by means of rope
igged from buoy to the shore like a
erry rope across river. We sent to
he Gaviotans mess pork. potatoes, Ten
iant's pale ale and other provender.
likewise some sturdy Nerino rams; (this
5 great sheep country, you know and
sc received. in turn, about two hundred
heeses from somebody's dairy over the
coast Range. A cheese is a dreadfully
ncongruous production to find upon SO
leak and desolate coast as this. Rather
ea gals eggs, whale oil aud seal skins,
We should expect.) counted four God
orsaken houses and as many outcast
.orses and dogs up above the beach at
iaviota. l asked q Santa Barbarian
here the settlement was-the town, or
ilIage Of Gaviota. He said there was :
% village, that this was a sheep range,
meaning all these hills) but that they
the sovereignsl voted at Williams
tore. l thought a man ought to be al
owed to vote very of.enin order to make {
an adequate recompense for living in
o desolate country. But peace reigns
q their midst. At any rate a bounteous {
allure has poured oil upon the waters
I Santa Barbara Bay. mean a fact;
ot mere pleasantly. There are petro-
Gum springs so abundant between here '
nd Point Conception that the surface
+ the sea is oily and the motion made
y the steamer is enough to stir up quite
strong smell of kerosene. A moro 6
eautiful sail than that from Gaviota I
ere, along the bay. distance of 40 or {
0 miles was never enjoyed on any sea.