Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-21
A GRAND TOURISTS, ROAD.
Through and Among Cs1ifornia's Grand
est Works and Scenes in Nature.
The following letter has been received by

Through and Among Cs1ifornia's Grand
est Works and scenes in Nature.
The following letter has been received by
Assemblyman Coleman, and is self-ex-
planatory
LUHDY (Cal J. February 8, 1855
Hon Cyrus Colemaa-DEAR SIS ! have
received copy of your bill 10 appropriate
S40,0 900 for constructing a wagon road from
Mono Lake TO Yosemite and the Big Trees.
1t Is a meritorious measure and should
pass. The penny wise " instinct should
not rule in this instance. The road will
make accessible section of mountain re-
gion that has hitherto been terra isacogn Ia
TO all but the hardest of prospectors and
mountaineers. fit were opened for travel
score of tourists would visit Yosemite
where one goes now, for the reason that
when few have gone by the new route
they will proclaim its unrivaled beauties
to the world, and induce large fol-
lowing, for 1t is, truly, an avenue
of natural wonders Mono Lake, /" the
traction to tourists hardly second to Yo-
semitic. Passing through the grand glacial
gorges known as Mill Creek and Lake can
yons, over and along tie Mount Warren
divide 600 feet high), through the green
meadows of Tioga, Swallowed by majestic
Mount Dana (13, 227 feet, down through the
lovely meadows of the Tnolumne, where
springs of the finest natural soda water in
the world abound; passing in full view of
Mount Lyell, with its living glacier $4,000
feet high), the grotesque Minarets and in
comparable Cathedral Peak, flanked on
either side by towering domes of polished
granite, through forests of magnificent
timber, to the north wall of the great Yo-
semitic chasm-the grandest of all noun
tain trips in the world. There are chang
ing scenes of awful grandeur all along
the route, which excite continual won
der and admiration. 1t is bewilder-
ing panorama of Gods handiwork, which
is not duplicated elsewhere in the universe
The Hottest peaks of the high Sierra, COM
pared with which those that inclose Yosem-
lite are but pigmies. are in sightall the way
Game of all description abounds, and the
many lakes and creeks TEEN with trout
The Tioga road is completed (fifty-six
miles in length, at a cost of $50 600, via
Medlicctt Dome, Lake Yenaya, Soda
Springs and Mount Dana to the foot Of
Mount Warren. From this terminus to the
road in Lake CANYON Tor to Lundy) is
about eight miles. This gap bridged by
good wagon road, an increase of travel to
Yosemite will at once be noticed. 1t would
attract the attention of tourists from all
paris VI Tue COuubTyi 10 say nOtnlDS o. the
accommodation it would afford the people
of this group of counties, who are in absolute
need of road across the Sierra Nevada. Ii
would place US within reach ofSan Francisco
without compelling us to travel 200 miles
from true course, and doubtless large
proportion of the west-bound travel would
take the new route.
1t is earnestly hoped by us all that the
measure will pass, that we may no longer
be isolated. 1t would be a great benefit
TO the people of Mono, Alpine and Inyo
counties, and add many thousand dollars
value to the taxable property of the State
in fact, it would necessarily create tax
able property where none now exists. l
inclose table of distances AMI elevations.
Hoping you will not relax your efforts
until the Governor has signed the bill, /
am yours truly. ]. w. E. TOWNSEND.
l concur; these are facts. Yours truly,
r. G.. MoNTRosE