Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-07-18
NOTES AND QUERIES.

ignorance of botany by coming upon t1o
many strange flowers which grow by every
pst., side in these mountain ways. And
each little vale and every gulch seems to have
its own ueculiar fora. There is wagon road
running from Yanks to the South East or
INNER end of that lovliest Of sheets OF water,
FALLING Leaf Lake. After it leaves the Valley
OF Lake Bigler, it winds around under the
bluff which, cast up like an earthwork on the
rnargin of the lake by some singular freak of
nature. hides its cleaning surface from the
eve Of the traveller, and after passing through
some gates which stand at the entrance of
Lucky Baldwin's farm, it dips down toward
the Northern border of the Lake; and all
along this road are magnificent views of the
water and the reflected mountain side and
trees. AS one rides slowly along, the luxur-
lance and variety of the wild flowers distract
ones attention from the broader and more
stately scene Of peak and lakelet and here 1t Is
that ones faulty botany becomes selt-re-
proach. There is a little flower which Is the
exact counterpart in color and general appear
ance of the tiger lily. We won't venture to
say that it is like it in characteristlcs-for
that would be to presume to be botany
wise and scientifcal But it is tiger lily in
miniature. There is a white lily-hke flower,
or white and black rather, which has no
superior in point of loneliness of structure
and delicacy of tint in any garden. And the
grasses seem peculiar, as also do the vines
and the mosses AS to the pines, the larches,
the frs and their relatives and connections,
Who shall tell their number and their dlstlnc-
tive Qualities? And now about lake breezes.
This annonator stood on the wharf at
Yanks OH Sunday watching, in religious mood
the wayward ways Of the wind. Truly no
(pewspaper) man knows whence it comes nor
whittier it goes. One moment comes pun
from the South; the next there Is not less
decided breeze from the East; IN a thinking
there comes 4 catspaw from the Nor west,
in the next second the surface water seems
blown in two or three directions slmultan-
eously. We had talk with an Intelligent
and Iake-experienced boat builder. He said
he had seen the wind descend upon the
surface OF the lake in the corkscrew form
spiralIy-a regular whirlwind such as no
small boat. with or without sails could stand
for a moment And he had seen snow
souall come in from the North, describe
horseshoe and then fly off at tangent.
As to himself, he had been blown
clean off from q raft he was trying to
navigate with a setting pole near the shore,
@ ha
would have been drowned. And yet Sailor
lack, the keeper at Emerald Bay, came
kitipg oyer in his keel boat, under a balloon
reefed mainsail on Sunday afternoon, at the
rata of is knots an hour. But Jack Is 8
water dog and there's no drowning the likes
O. him We saw with these honest eyes
which never knowingly looked upon lie,
dozens Of great fierce, restless, shark-llke
trout swimming down under the myriad
frightened clubs st the outer end OF 1anks
embarcadero on the Sabbath afternoon. We
have our doubts if any week day fisher could
eos1 them to bite his hook any Monday how
ever. Mighty shy, those deep swimmers, II
they see what's going on above. .... Gilmore
Of the Soda Springs tod Us that he and an
other caught no less than fifty pounds OF
trout in Falling Loaf the other afternoon. de
lives in the cabins there-he and his herders
at the head Of the Lake. .... In came
from Tahoe City half dozen Indians laden
with venison, Sunday, on the Niagara. They
said, erufly, "Caiforny" in answer to our
question CT "where catch 'em deer2". .....
The Niagara, by the way, seems to be quite
the favorite boat, this season. Certainly she
seems very trim, and the Captain, Avery, is
greatly liked by the Lake travellers and resi-
dents And now as 10 Yanks: Let us
be honest It is not the best hotel in the
world 1t is by no means model OF order.
Yank was never made for a Paran Stevens
nor vet Leland; but he and his wife do work
hard, and strive hard and pull hard. And,
after all, ii is the struggle of an old man and
his very faithful wife to do the best they can.
Out of these efforts comes just as good table
as any man, woman or child has any business
to ask for. There is fresh trout in protuslon
and creaIn-real, sure enough cream-ad nd
itum. And the meats are excellent. Also
is q roof TO shelter you. What more do you
want2 Once at Yanks and you ars a point
whence all the desirable points OF interest and
attraction round about the Lake are easily
and quickly accessible. Emerald Bay is four
nile. away; Cascade Lake is not more than
Two miles distant; Falling Leaf Lake is