The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-08-31

Cruz in n one-horse buggy and VIII show
you grove after grove OF monsters So tail
that you could not see squirrel at their
tops and so thick on the ground that you
would be lucky TO shoot deer within easy
range | spent n coupe Of weeks in the
haunts of Rip Van Wrinkle The sceEe
of that story was happily laid and l
am as familiar with the waterfall and the
dense grove where lie slept for twenty
wears as with the jolly face of Joe Jefferson
and the long beard, ragged clothes and
broken gun which appear on the stage. L
haven't seen a wilder, sleeper spot in this
coast, but within much less than days
drive of San Francisco | will show you
Rips long resting place, with all its dreamy
secluSlUn, with its trees and its hill and its
KaaterSEill aud its old saw-mill grown a
huDdred-fold in size and grandeur. You
shall have the mountain lake and all, except
the 260-foot waterfall.
We should want to linger whole sum-
mer long from Halfmo0n Bay to PeScadero,
but if We do 60 on here is Messy Beach, as
famed for its MOSES as Pebble Beach for
lis pebbles, and here is Pigeon Point, where
you may climb the lighthouse tower above
100 feet and see one of the most modern of
tlash-lanternS. They won't let You inside
the lantern now, but half dozen people
could ind room in there. | had the oppor-
tnnlty OF hearing the f0g-horn at night at
Pescadero, six miles away.
A little further down you follow the
stage road where it leaves terra hrma and
takes the beach for two or three miles.
Keep close to the waters edge for good
hard road, and let the brine lave your
buggy wheels We had company along
this part of our journey. 1t was i've
coyote. The bank was steep and he had no
| escape, so he trotted along by eur side,
looking anXiously for a hole in the bank,
and all the time within easy shot His dis,
appearance was complete and sudden, and
left us wondering whittier he had gone
We leave the beach at the mouth OF Wad-
dell Creek, where we hear the story OF Mr..
Waddell, who was
KILLED BY A BEAR.
In the camping season the banks of the
creek are white with tents. Passing on
ward down the coast the rest of the drive to
Santa Cruz Is pretty and Interesting, and OF
course the last two or three mlles-famed
for beaches, cliffs, natural bridges and fine
driveS-need not be described.
About nine miles north of Santa Cruz We
met large party of railroad surveyors run
ming q line for the Southern Pacific, said to
be Tor the purpose of tapping the immense
deposits OF bItuminOus rock in that region.
VIII they push it through? VIII a railroad
ever be built up that coast? 1t will be eX-
| pensive, perhaps, but 1t would open up
timber lands and pass through soil not eX-
celled in the State. For raising hogs,
cattle, horses, poultry, potatoes and all
bulky vegetables, apples ana pears and the
Slua4I ltultS- IGlS ID llt BCoL VI Itlu'I, Al
little rough, but cheaper than land not half
as good can be found as near TO any other
American city. Shut out from the rest OF
the world by high range OF mountains on
one side and 4 wide ocean on the other, it
is now devoted to pasturage. A rail
road would divert it to the uses which
make business for railrOad5-the production
of bulky products. 1t is well-watered
country and would make thousands of
homes for the busy, energetic. thriving
classes to whom 1t IS suited. Coming from
the rolling States of the East they would
feel more at home here than in any part Of
California that | have seen. This feeling
would be increased by the greater SINH
larity of the products and methods OF
farming to those of the East. Variety
and grandeur of scenery, proximity TO q
great city, abundance Of wood and water,
evennesS OF temperdture-all would be there,
and half the energy which has been wasted
on that many square miles at the other end
of the State would give this region boom
too Dig to be healthy. Let me express the
hope that it will rather have steady
growth, but let it soon get the start that has
been so long in coming.
Half the profit Of q Tamble through
strange scenes Is gained or lost by the kind
of travelling companion YOU have. In this
| have been fortunate in all my journevings
about San Francisco. Perry Mo rrison. who
| has kindly taken me on these delightful
| trips, is fOrty-niner of the best type, who
has recently extended his domains on the
coast from sheer enthusiasm and faith in it.
His seaside home is al Potter ranch, by the
Long Bridge. near the famous ranch of Creed
Raymond, and just at the point where the
shortest road from the Stanford University
will strike the seashore. The road is now
impossible from washouts. but when I'm
ished is destined 10 be one of the finest
drives in the United States. OF Mr.. Hay
mond's ranch, and the work he is doing to
make it both profitable and beautiful, too
much cannot be said. 1t is high up on the
mountains aud looks down on the bound
less ocean. 1t is whispered that Mrs. Stan
ford will yet have a cottage there.
HENRY j, PuILPOTT.