Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-12
The Best Routes to Reach Them,
and Methods Of Conveyance.
DELIGHTFUL MOUNTAIN, GLEN
AND SEASHORE RLTREATS.
Where Health Nag BE F0nnd and Sports
Enjoyed Mineral Springs-Charms
Of Our Mountain and Lake
Scenery.

The visitor 70 California mas TWO pur
poses in view, or one Of two. He either
comes 10 spy out the land and locate a
home. and at the same time to see its
curosities, or solely for the latter purpose.
In any case his motive IS commendable.
If he comes 10 locate Z home, We claim
that he has visited the most available and
promising part Of creation, and that central
and northern California are the best Of that
where his energy viii be best applied and
yield the largest measure of good to him
self ard his fellow-men, and the broadest
pleasure and most complete human hap
piness. There is no field Of
HUMAN ACTIVITY
That he may not engage in here, and no
sort of tickling of the belly OF earth that he
NAV not profitably employ in these sections.
Assuming that he comes to see our won
ders and to feast his soul upon the glories
of our scenery, OF to resi- his weary body
and rehabilitate his wasted physical energies
at otIr watering places and health
restoring resorts, this article IS
prepared by the RECORD uEIoE, and
those TO follow, for his information not,
however, as & dissertation upon or compar-
ison OF points of interest, but as brief
guide in the form of a rapid glance at the
points and objects of chief interest IN this
State that the tourist may easily plan his
routes and estimate how best, 10 crafty his
own tastes, he can parcel out his time IN
California. We DO not pause to dwell upon
the wonderful variety and
BEAUTY OF OUR sCEEERy,
Or the prodigi0us character of our natural
wonders II must suffice TO say that not in
the mountains of New England, the glories
of the Blue Ridge, the attractions Of the At
lantic shores the marveis OF the
Rocky Mountains, the grandeur Of the
National PARK. the splendors OF The
hdirondacks, the promise Of the
Virginia, or any Western springs, the
charms Of the Southern coasts OF the lake
delights Of the northwest, are there any
wonders, charms or attractions to rival sue
cessfully those California has to offer IN
the majestic glories of the higher Sierras,
the subhmity of the Pacific coast the su-
perb valleys, the magniticence OF our
forests and the awful grandeurs of our
glacial and waterwOrn gorges, or the de-
lights and promises Of our health-glVlng
springs and healing waters. But the tourist
must not expect to find all the comforts,
elegances or cOnYeniences that meet him
at the resorts of the older States, where
az lavish outlay of money. and assured
patronage have made the pleasure spots OF
The Atlantic coast so attractive. We Offer
him nature
IN HER NEWER RoBEs,
Mountain and plain. sea coast and spring,
where the art of man has but little en-
crosched upon the wild free charms of viz
Gin nature In Indicating the routes
to the natural wonders of California, and
sketching the attractions at the chief OF
these. we have drawn not only upon our
knowledge of the location, and the eZpe-
rience of q quarter of a century IL the State,
but npon all available reliable sources OF
information, and upon none so much as
the admirable and thoroughly reliable
handbook, edited by the graceful and ac-
complished writer Major Ben. G, Truman,
whose " Tourists Illustrated Guide should
be in the hands of all visitors, and upon
the statements of which they may I'M
plicitlv RELY. The third and latest edition
of this work is issued from the press of H
S. Croker d. Co, San Francisco and Sac
ramento, and bears the Endorsement OF the
Southern Pacific Company, over whose
lines of travel most tourists will pass
Great valleys and Waterfalls Yosemite
The Yosemite Valley, the supremest o
our natural wonders and unqueshonab!A
the crandest of all continental scenery, !!
reached by rail and stage. By the frs
from either end of the State over the South
ern Pacific lines to MADEIRA, thence by
branch line twenty-five miles, from which
terminus snort stage route leads K
Clark's. and thence into the valley, the en-
tire trip taking but little over twenty-fou-
hours from either Sacramento or SaI
Francisco. The staging is only abou
thirty-six miles in all, and is over one o
the loveliest mountain routes possible Z
imagine II will be q choice to enter b,
way of Inspiration. Point, and thus reacl
the floor of the valley in coach, or to g
from Clarks along the highest ridge of tn
Sierras TO Glacier Point, where is obtain
able unquestionably the rarest view OF tn
wonderful panorama OF waterfall, gorge
valley and capped mountain nights
thence descending into the valley by trail
In the estimation of many this latter is tn
preferable route, since it obviates the ne
cessitv of climbing the trail to Giacie
Point At later date in the visit. for on
must view the valley from this unequale
vantage point. In our visit We preterre
the ascent and the descent, each disclosin
to US new wonders. But both tastes ma
he accommodated by coming into the vale
by one route and going out by the othe
There are other methods of reachin
the valley One is 10 leave the rail at Me-
ced and stage it via the historic old mimi
town, Mariposa, TO Clark's, seventy-eigi
miles. Another Is to depart from the cit
of Stockton by rail to Milton, thirty mile
thence stage it over a picturesque and il
teresting route to the valley, eighty-eigl
miles. passing en- route one of the famol
groves of big trees. A slight variation
This route takes the tourist by staI
through still another of the groups
mammoth trees, concerning the size
which it has been found impossible to co
vince the Eastern visitor save by ocul
demonstration OF these we shall speg
later. As routes of travel are now q
ranged il is not long, tedious or an e
pensive
TRIP TO YOSEMITE.
We have vet to meet one vino has made
and regretted either the outlay or the ne
essary fatigue It has grown into
aphorism that words cannot depict t
glories of Yosemite, and so many have co
fessed their SYNONYMOUS failure in the eff
to do 1t, that the bare recital of this fa
will suffice to sufficiently awaken t
fancy of the stranger, and excite b
widest curiosity. It may, hoWey
be said that it is the one bit
scenery on the footstool of the Creator CO
corning which no expectation Yhatey