Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-28
SAVED FROM VANDALS.
REGULATIONS CONCERNING YOSEMITE
NATIONAL PARK
An Empire in the Heart of the Sierra
Observation-Disclosures of All Kinds
Prohibited.

Secretary of the Interior John W. Noble
has Just issued circular giving various
rules and regulations for the protection and
preservation of the new National Parks in
California-the Yosemite and the Sequoia
The boundaries of these reservations, con-
tanning together considerably over 100000
acres, have previously been published. The
Yosemite includes portions of Mariposa
Tuolumne and Mono counties adjoining
end surrounding the present Yosemite
Park; the other includes all the big-tree
groves of Tulare county located east OF
Sanger and Visalia. The rules prescribed
are the same for both reservations. They
are as follows:
1.-THE Park by said Acts is placed under
the exclusive control of the Secretary OF
the Interior, and these rules and regula-
tons are made and published in pursuance
of the duty imposed on him IN regard
thereto.
mo persons other than transient visitors
will be permitted to be within the Park
without written authority from the Secre'
tary of the Interior.
mo person shall cut, break, remove, I'M
pair or interfere with any trees, shrubs,
plants, timber, minerals, mineral deposits,
curiosities, wonders, or other objects OF in
terest in the park, and all of the same shall
be retained in their natural condition.
1.-THE wanton destruction of the fish and
game from within the park and their
capture or destruction for the purposes of
merchandise or profit are forbidden by said
Acts; and no one shall carry into or have
in the park any firearms, traps, nets, tackle
or appliances, or fish or hunt therein with
out a license in writing signed by the
Secretary or Superintendent of the park.
mo one shall start or kindle, or allow to
be started or kindled, any fire in grass,
leaves, underbrush, debris, or dead timber,
down or standing; and any one so offend
ell damages that smay result from such
fire.
"The sale or use of intoxicating liquors
within the psrk is strictly forbidden.
"The Superintendent duly appointed by
the Secretary is hereby authorized and
directed to remove all trespassers from the
park, and enforce these rules and regula-
tons and all the provisions of the Acts of
Congress aforesaid.
The natural wonders set apart in the new
Yosemite Park are not generally known.
The forty-two townships reserved comprise
500 SQUARE miles, or over $50, 900 acres,
located on the summit of the Sierra and
embracing some Of the grandest mountain
! scenery in the world. An idea of the size
of the new park may be gained by contrast
inc ii with the original Yosemite grant,
which includes only 36111 acres. J. NJ.
Hutchins, who has lived in the Yosemite
valley for over thirty years, estimates that
| fully zoo. 600 acres of its area are mountain
Gus, well-watered and heavily timbered.
The forests comprise pine, spruce, fir, hem
| lock. tamarack, cedar, madrona, laurel, Sc
| ouoia and mountain mahogany. The val
! leys. meadows, lakes and streams make up
the $50, 600 acres remaining.
Lofty Mount CONFESS, Mount Hoffman,
and Mount Lyell are within the new grant;
as is also the grand canyon of the Tuol.
umne river, including the -Hetohy
valley. Wawona, now "a stopping place for
Yosemite tourists, is just south of the
Grant. The sources of the San Joaquin,
| The MERGED and the Tuolumne rivers, as
well as the entire watershed that makes up
all the present Yosemite streams, is com.
prised in the great reservation. II IS Of
! erest interest to note in connection with
the above rules that they have no applica-
ton to the present Yosemite grant, which
remains as it has been, under the care OF
| our State Commissioners. 1t IS still state
property, although the new government
reservation surrounds it on all sides.
Secretary Noble, in his circulars, recog'
nizes and favors Yosemite, not 70 Semitic
/ the old Indian Methods the official des.
ignation Of the reservation.