Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-15

where all steamers make their first landing
after leaving Tahoe City. ]. W. McKin.
ney, after whom the place was named, still
continues in charge as host, and has some
thirty furnished cottages where guests find
rest and comfort. These ommodations.
together with good meals, are furnished for
twelve dollars per week, and Mckinney s
place never falls short of its full proportion
OF patronage. Baths, boats and fishing
tackle are free to guests. The new propel-
Ter, Hattie Belle, twenty-eight feet long,
SIX and half foot beam, and carrying from
tel to fifteen passengers, owned by K. Col
well, has just been launched, and will
make her headquarters at this place dur
Ing the season for the use of pleasure
parties trip prices ranging from FIVE TO fif-
teen dollars, according TO distance travelled
and size of parties.
BELLEVUE.
About half way between the northern
and southern extremity, on the western
side, is fine two story hotel, FIRST class in
every respect, known as the Bellevue, and
under the management of Oliver Roberts.
who is also proprietor of tie Arlington
Hotel at Carson City. Mr. Roberts took
charge of the Bellevue at the beginning of
last season, and by those characteristics
peculiar to the good landlord, made Belle
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fishing. tackle are free to guests, and COM
petent boatmen guide the fishers to angling
spots that prove the most abundant in trout
| that bite. tine wagon road leads from
| mere along the edge of the lake to Tahoe
City, and livery for drives proves an ad-
ditional attraction. Exploring parties and
| hunters find enjoyment in the mountains
In the rear, and frequent excursions over
Weii-constrnc,ed trails to recently discoy-
cred lakes will be summer feature. The
charges here range from 81 90 to So so per
day, and about 125 guests can find accom-
modatlons. The postofiice is Sunbeam.
| EMERALD BAY
Is beautiful land locked harbor ar the
| southwestern extremity of the lake, three
| miles long and mile in width. The water
is beautiful emerald green, and is Dor.
oered by narrow strip of forest, back of
| which Jagged and rocky mountains rise in
their rugged beauty to hight of ZOO feet
| above the lake level At the western ex
tremity, on few acres of natural noun.
tain lawn, shaded by coy groves of alder.
| poplar and pines, Mrs. L. n. Kirby has To-
| Gated what Is now popularity known as the
| Emerald Bay Resort. Here is a small
| hotel with large parlor and dining room
surrounded by numerous nicely furnished
little cottages. Boats and fishing tackle
are free to guests, and these with swings,
hammocks, croquet, and climbing, furnish
an abundance of out door exercise.
Near by Cascade Falls come tumbling hun
dreds OF feet down the mountains rocky
canyon, and furnish for sketch artists on
| portunities unsurpassed. Also. close at
hand, are Eagle Falls, and on little
plateau not far away is Echo Lake, favor
| lite with those given to law and idle
rambling. Nature seems to have spent her
energy in perfecting this place for recrea-
| ton and health, for in addition to all that
has been mentioned is an exact counterpart
of the famous Buffalo Lithia mineral
spring, so celebrated for its medicinal
properties. The water carries in solution
iron, soda. salt, and lithia, and the reiuve-
! mating influence these waters effect can be
demonstrated by experiment better than
by description. Altogether this is Que of
the most popular places in the mountains
and some half a hundred guests (alwsys
including goodly numbers of good.iook-
ing schooi-ma' ams), find hospitality ex-
| tended ct the rate OF $l4 per week This
| includes unlimited opportunities for fiirt-
| ing, lots OF pie, and the use OF brand new
piano.
THE TALLAC HOUSE,
| Under the management of NJ. Lawrence is
| the headquarters for the elite, and is the
| property of E. J. Baldwin, owner of the
| Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco. Here
| guests find comfort and luxury, with all
| the conveniences and appointments of the
best regulated city hotels. Baths, barber
shops and club house. Lawn tennis, cro-
quet, billiards and archery. Steamers,
| barges, sail and row boats. Music BY
string band and piano, with fine double
parlors, for dancing. A livery stable fitted
I out with forty head of horses, two four-in-
hands, several double open and top bug
| gies, together with spring wagons for party
excursions and kind and gentle saddle
horses for ladies' The club house is
stocked to meet the requirements of the ep-
icurean, while the dining-room, with seats
for over 100, is model in itself. Dusky
walters in full dress, under direction of
| Joseph Cowen, for four years steward of the
Palace Hotel in San Francisco, attend to
| the serving of guests with all the Difference
and attention required by the most fastidi-
| GUS.
| Connected with the hotel proper are nu-
merous cottages, many of which are ele.
| gantly furnished, which are assigned to
| families and parties remaining by the week
While these accommodations have sufficed
for the past and must for the present, Mr.
Baldwin will, during this season, burn
near by, million of brick, and erect the
coming season, q $4,000 hotel, which the
| increasing demand of tourist travel now
fully warrants. One Of the Improvements
added this year for the convenience of
guests is the
! STEAMER TALLAC.
A new steel propeller, 60 feet in length
| with 109 feet beam. built specially TO order
for the needs of the lake at Buffalo, n. Y.
and now being launched, at an expense of
over $4,000. This boat after the first of
July will carry the mails, and will prob
ably be licensed TO carry from thirty to
forty passengers. The Tallac is double
decked screw propeller, with double en-
gines and a rate of speed guaranteed at
eighteen miles per hour.
| EXCURSION ROUTES
From Tallac are varied and interesting in
the extreme, but too numerous to mention
in detail. Principal among which are
horseback rides to the extreme summit of
Mount Tallac, from which can be counted
fourteen lakes Astounding in trout On the
trail to the summit is first passed Fallen
Leaf Lake, three miles long by one and
one-half miles wide, and couple of miles
further on a most wonderful curiosity
known as
FLOATING ISLAND LAKE.
This lake covers an area of about five
| lOdtlUS Oh ltS Surface is q lawn
covered natural island, some twenty feet i'll
diameter, which floats with such buoy
ancy as to carry fishing party of from
four to six people, who paddle it about the
lake. One lady hooked sixteen fine trout
from this queer conveyance in single
afternoon. Another attraction at Tallac is
the opportunities for bathing. DR.. Charles
B. Brigham kept daily record of the tenn
perature of the water at Talac during a
whole season, and found that for three
months the water in the lake averaged ten
degrees warmer than at Monterey. A full
line of bathing suits are kept for the use OF
guests and an afternoon splash is consd-
cred quite the proper caper.
THE CASCADE HOUSE,
Popularity known as "Yank's'' and kept BY
E. Clements, was burned during the past
winter, but lumber has been ordered and
temporary cottages will at once be built,
so that guests to the number Of twenty
will receive the usual welcome from the
Oldest hosts at the head of the lake.
GLENBRooK.
Glenbrook is on the Nevada side, direct
ly opposite McKinney's. Tourists from
the East, coming by way of Reno and Car
son City, first see the lake at this point.