Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1893-07-25
THE LAKE.
The Resorts Crowded and Busi-
ness Brisk.

Tallac, eighty-five feet long ane
twelve feet wide, equipped with 1
Roberts boiler of 200 pounds steam
pressure, fitted ont with all the lat
est mproysments, averaging abou
twelve miles an hour, plies around
the lake daily, carrying Wells, Fargo
& Cos. express and U. S. Mail
Captain Frank p. Holt commanding
officer Harry Comstock, purser and
III. II. Todman, engineer.
| The Grand Central, Tallac, Belle
vue, McKinney's and other pleasure
resorts around the lake are over
crowded with tourists despite the al
Turing attractions of the World {,
Fair at Chicago. Over one hundred
and sixty guests, (more than one
half of whom are from San Francisco
are sojourning at Tallac, Nj. Law
renee & Co. proprietors,) who are
serenaded every afternoon and even
ing with choice musical selections by
trained orchestra.
Oakland, San Francisco, Southern
California and the East are well rep
resented at the Grand Central hotel
A. j. Bayley, of Eldorado county,
Cal, proprietor for the past quarter
of century, among whom are Cap
tain D. G. Black burn, of the steam
ship Montserat, Hawaii.
Fishing is better than for years,
and large hauls are daily being made
trout weighing up to many pounds.
Two San Francisco ladies at Tallac,
July Eth, caught forty pounds of
trout, each weighing from enc to
three pounds.
The boat Lily Van, anchored at
the Tallac wharf, is rented ct $40
month by Mr.. Lawrence, proprietor
of the Tallac hotel, who has divided
it into rooms for dodgers.
Steamer Mamie, Captain Pomin,
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commanding, the other day brought
in ITO large sized tro,f, one weigh
ing siz and one half ands.
A gentleman passenger on the
steamer Tallac, last E4ouday, acct
dentally dropped a gold watch val
ued at S10o in the lake near Belle
vue.
Harold T. Power, Superintend-
ent of the Hidden Treasure mine at
Sunny South, and G.. r. Cowan and
j. A. Ferguson of Forest Hill are
camping in the woods just below the
outlet of Tahoe waters to Truckee
river. They are catching some large
sized trout.
d. f. Williams, editor of the Ge-
noa, Nevada, Courier, has been rus
ticating here for few days.
F. E. Wadsworth, publisher of
the Nevada City Herald, and wife
spent couple of days here this
week.
Miss Kate Sanborn, of Metcalf,
Massachusetts,, has, for the last few
days, been going around the lake on
the Tallac taking notes for forth
coming book to be called the ''Un-
known California"
There is a crowd, mostly young
people, at Deer Park, J. b. Scott,
proprietor.
There is particularly noticeable
preponderance of lady tourists at
these pleasure resorts this season.
About forty men are working at
the Glenbrook sawmill, turning out
80, 900 feet of lumber daily. The
entire plant is illuminated every
night by electricity.
Meadow Lake, two weeks ago said
one of the Placer county campers,
was frozen over with ice.
An angler, near Rubicon Point,
where there is a perpendicular drop
off in the water for a thousand feet
or more, in two and half houl s
caught thirty-fiys large trout, one
weighing seven ara half pounds,
and 200 more have oee.i trollcd Ia
during the past week by expert tour
lists. Captain Roberts two daughters,
from San Lorenzo, Alameda county,
hauled in nineteen apiece
One hundred trout was snaggled
near Tahoe City, the other day,
weighing about LA pounds.
The Steamboat CON panies have
compromised, and there will be no
more cuts in rates; in fact everything
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