The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-15
California Summer Resorts.

With the return of spring the watering.
| places and summer resorts are again at.
tracing the attention of pleasure-seckers.
Tourists from abroad, attracted by the
fame of our geysers, the wonders of our
petritied forests and marvellous groves, and
| the grandeur and beauty of our matchless
Yosemite, will soon begin to pour in upon
us by the overland route. The roads to
these places of resort will soon be alive
with travellers and the summer resorts will
be pcopled with gay cxcusionists and
pleasure seekers.
The railroad companies in this city
have nearly completed their arrangements
for the accommodation Of this summer
travel. They have placed the entire bust
ness in the hands of Sam Miller who has
desk in the office devoted exclusively to
this travel. He is exclusively authorized
to sell tickets, and any information in re-
gard to any of the watering-places or
resorts desired by persons contemplating a
visit to any of them can be obtained from
him.
The great majority of watering places
proper are in the SOnoma and Napa val
leys, or in the mountains which skirt the
edges OF these valleys. Hence, most of
this class of travel will pass over the Napa
Valley and North Pacific railroads. The
vallejo boat, connecting with the morning
trains by either route, will leave Broad
way wharf at 7:15 every morning. Taking
passage for the round trip by this route
the excursiOnist arrives at Vallejo about
nine O'Clock. The nearest watcring-place
from there is the White Sulphur Springs
of Vallejo, so called to distinguish them
from the Napa White Sulphur Springs.
This resort is about seven miles from Val
lejo. The only mode of conveyance from
Vallejo to it at present is by private
teams, there being no stages running. The
place is connected by telegraph with Val
lejo.
Arrangements have been made by the
Railroad Company by which persons de-
sirOus of SO doing may make the round
trip to all the watering places in the Napa
and Sonoma valleys. Leaving this city by
the morning boat to Vallejo, or by the four
O'Clock boat, passengers proceed to Val
lejo, where they take the Napa Valley
cars and proceed to Calistoga, the terminus
of the road, sixty-seven miles from San
Francisco. Thence travelling by stage
they may go to the Geysers, and from there
to Healdsburg or back to Calistoga. Leav-
ing Calistoga at eight O'Clock in the
morning, passengers arrive at the Geyscrs
at one O'Clock. From this place they may
proceed to Healdsburg, which can be
reached by an easy drive by nightfall.
Tickets are good for the season, and hold
ers can remain at any place on the route
as long as they desire, returning by way of
Healdsburg and Petaluma on the San
Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, or
by Calistoga on the Napa Valley Railroad.
The fare for the round trip is SIT. Stages
leave daily from stations on the line of the
two railroads for the various watering
places in the valley Il few miles from the
railroads.
A ticket for this trip entities the holder
to stop off at St. Helena and visit the
White Sulphur Springs if desired. This
watering-place is very popular as place
of summer resort for families from the
city. 1t nestles costly in beautiful little
valley, surrounded with lofty mountains
covered with the foliage of a dense forest.
The drive from St. Helena, distance of
two miles, is through an avenue cut in the
forest, lined with lofty trees, whose
branches intertwine across the road, form
ing natural awning whose cool shade is
a relief to the traveller after encountering
the heat and dust of the road. The fare to
st. Helena from this city is So, and from
st. Helena to the Springs 81.
CalistOga is one of the most popular
watering-places on the coast, both ON &C
count of its natural attractions and its
situation, being easy of access. 1t is near
the head of the Napa valley, sixty-seven
miles from this city, and is the northern
terminus of the Napa Valley Railroad
Roads leading in every direction through
the valley diverge from the place, and the
scenery on all is enchanting.
One of the greatest curiosities in this
part of the country is the celebrated Petri-
fed Forest. Teams can be obtained at
Fishers livery stables, connected with
the hotel at Calistoga, to visit the forest.
The distance from Calistoga to the forest
is five miles, and the drive is pleasant
one. This fossil forest is situated on the
ridge of the Coast Range, forming the di-
vide between the Napa and Santa Rosa
valleys. For more than mile on either
side of the cabin Of Charley Evans (more
Familiarity known as "Petrified Charley'0
the petritied remains of these fallen and
hardened monarchs of a primeval forest ex-
tend, the great majority of the trunks and
limbs being covered with earth and vege-
table deposit.
No tour to the Pacific Coast could be
complete without visit to the far-famed
Geysers, and any circuit of the watering
places would be incomplete without
visit to this great natural wonder. The
Geysers, with their hundreds of springs of
all qualities, colors and temperatures,
with their vast deposits of sulphur, alum,
magncsia, EPSON salts, and other miner
ais; with the putting and roaring of steam
issuing from every crevice in the rocks
and rushing with great violence from
Steamboat Springs;'' with the dashing
and surging of the black, boiling water in
the fathomless depths of the switches
Cauldron;" with the weird mysteries of the
Devils Punch Bowl" the Devils Ink
Bottle" Devils Kitchen and Machine
Shop" and its other wonders with celcs-
tial applications; with its hundreds of
hot springs and cold springs; white
springs, red springs and black sulphur
springs, iron, soda and alum springs, and
the familiar demon of the place only
knows what other springs, all pouring
their commingled waters into one
heterogeneous stream, seething through
"Proserpine's Grotto," and score of
other rocky retreats with names indicative
of the proprietorship of Satan and his
consort-the Geysers are the most won
uCAAuA al puCuOulCIst Ou CulS OOStSt.
They are situated in the mountains of the
Coast Range, eighteen miles from Calls
toga.
Skagg's Springs are situated in the So
noma Valley, fourteen miles from Heads
burg and eight miles from Geyserville.
The natural advantages of the Springs for
watering place are great, but until about
three years ago no attempt had been made
to make it popular resort. The present
lessee of that place has made great i'm
provements in and around it, and it bids
fair to become popular summer resort
The abundance of fish and game make it
the place popular with sportsmen, while
the medicinal properties of the water rem
der the Springs an attractive place for in
valids. The fare from Healdsburg to the
Springs, by stage, is 81.
Daily stages run from Calistoga to Har-
bins Springs, distance of twenty-five
miles to the north. The fare is "a. The
Springs are much frequented by those
afflicted with rho,1,oo tio,,, ond E;odroI