The record-union., 1896-02-17
REALM OF WINTERS KING.
Truekee, Its Ice Carnival and Various
Attractions.
A Correspondent Who is Charmed
With What He Saw on a
Visit There.

To those who have not, as we'll as to
those who have, experienced the invig-
Grating atmosphere of an icy region,
trip to the ice-clad, snow-capped sum
mits of the Truckee section will prove
an entertaining, healthful and delight
ful recreation. Excursions are arriving
daily from various quarters along the
line of the Southern Pacific system, and
the annual snowfall here will in time
render Truckee the objective point of
California's S winter excursionists
Nature has admirably fitted Truckee
to become the winter resort of those
pleasure bound or of localities in which
chill winter and snow are not known
Here from the majestic mountains tow
ering 10000 feet above the sea level,
even into the clouds, is obtained sup
ply of the purest, sweetest and best
water on earth, and of which nature
has been lavish in its abundance, at
testing the millions of crystal sparkling
brooks and brooklets gliding down the
thousand mountains to the gorges be-
meath. The clear, bright, sunny south
ern skies, the gentle, balmy, yet bracing
atmosphere, all combine in harmony to
render the scene veritable paradise to
the visitor.
Entranced in the transports of rap
ture, the tourist alights from the train
to behold, on his left, the Truckee ice
palace a real representation of the icy
formations of the Arctic regions, but
on a more gigantic and better directed
scale, for its equipment, arrangement
and furnishings have been the work of
human hands-Mother Nature supply
ing the material and doing the rest.
1t is a palace, indeed, and but for its
color, grotesqueness and the pervading
chill air on entering it, the visitor
finds it not unlike the ordinary exposi-
tion palace built by the hand of man.
It's dimensions are ample to accom-
modate 300 visitors at one time, and
considering the numerous other sights
for the visitor and the fact that the
visit is not usually prolonged beyond
five or ten minutes in the icy structure,
there is ample accommodation for
flow of 10000 people in a day, entering
and departing continuously.
Then the exhilarating skating, the
enthusiasm of tobogganing, the merry
jingle-jangle-jingle of sleighbells, and
the sleighride to Lake Tahoe combine
IL
BILE one in the life history of the visitor.
The people here are of the social, whole
souled, generous and hospitable type
thorough Americans, who delight in
welcoming strangers to these regions
OF grandeur and sublimity-and they
take pride in hearing the departing
tourist speak we'll of their sojourn
among them.
TIL, e.
bridge of Virginia. Mount Shasta,
Mount Blanc of the Alps and other
natural wonders pale into insignifi-
canoe when compared with an hours
ride among the mountains contiguous
to Truckee. For here the canyons,
gorges, chasms, meandering streams,
forests and groves, valleys. hills,
mountains, feecy clouds and sunny
skies lend Gas Josh Billings would say)
one continuous variety" and all seems
to be in one rapturous embrace
Approaching Truckee from the west
the excursionist gets the first sniff of
cold air as he passes through the snow
sheds from the vicinity of Blue Can
yon for about thirty miles In the
steep cuts the Central Pacific was
obliged to erect these wooden cover
ings to prevent snow bIockades,
and SO the passenger has his ride
for about twenty miles through
these railroad barns," now and then
passing through a tunnel or turning a
sharp curve around the edge of preci-
pice down which he can frequently
behold the hut of the mountaineer 1000
feet below.
But it is vain to attempt descrip-
tion of a trip to Truckee. To see is to
appreciate, and the occasion of visit
to Truckee will be one long to be re-
membered in the life of anyone Colonel
McGlashan and Frank Meloche are
the leading projectors of the ice carni-
val. PRO BONO PUBLICO.