Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-21
A GRAND TOURISTS ROAD.
Through and Among CALIFORNIA; Grand
est Works and scenes in Nature
The following letter has been received by
Assemblyman Coleman, and is self-ex-

est Works and scenes in Nature.
The following letter has been received By
Assemblyman Coleman, and is self-ex-
planatory
LUNDY (Cal.). February 8, 1885.
Hon. Cyrus Coleinoa-DEAR SIR: ] have
| received copy of our bill 10 appropriate
/ $40, 700 for constructing wagon road from
Mono Lake 10 Yosemite and the Big Trees
1t IS 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 incoo,. Ia
| to all but the hardest of prospectors and
! monntaineers. If it were opened for travel
a 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 It's unrivaled beauties
to the world, and induce 9 large fol-
lowing, for it is, truly, an avenue
of natural wonders. Mono Lake. the
Dead Sea of America will prove an at
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 the Mount Warren
divide 2,600 feet high, through the green
meadows of Tiogs, Swallowed bv majestic
Mount Dana ia, 227 feet, down through the
springs of the finest natural soda water in
the world abound passing in full view of
Mount Lyell, with its living glacier 600
feet high, the grotesque Minarets and in
comparable Cathedral Peak, fRnked 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 a 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 $S0,o00), via
Medlicott 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 bv
good wagon road, an increase of travel to
Yosemite will at once be noticed. II would
attract the attention of tourists from all
parts of the country, to say nothing OF the
accommodation it would afford the people
of this group of counties, who are in absolute
need of a road across the Sierra Nevada. Ii
would placeus within reach San Francisco
without compelling us to travel 200 miles
from true course, and doubtless a 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 a table of distances ana elevations.
Hoping you will not relax your efforts
until the Governor has signed the bill, |
am yours truly. J. w. E. TOWNSEND.
concur; these are facts. Yours truly,
R. G. MoNTgosE