The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-07-30
From The Far w est.
BIG TREES, CAL,
July l8, 1897.

your regular California cOrreSpOn'
dent, and thinking it too bad that
| this glorious country should not be
written up, a Tennessean makes
bold to undertake the work. Al
present an improvised desk on a
lunch-box is used, the writer being
seated on a rustic arbor, dedicated
TO the ''nine muses." and overshad-
owed by the waving branches of
the "sequoia semper voiens," or big
trees of Santa Cruz county. If in
| spiration is wanting, what more fit
ting place for drinking in from ma
ture than this beautiful grove? One
is surrounded on all sides by great
cred woods" towering 800 feet in
to space and varying in circumfer-
ence from 40 to 95 feet. This grove
contains 60 acres, and while these
are not the real big trees of Califor-
MIA, still one is more than repaid for
a ramble among these giants at an
expenditure of $3.50.
The number of visitors to the
West this season is something won
derful. California has welcomed
one and all with open arms and has
treated her guests most royalty.
Side trips have been planned and
free transportation, as to vehicles,
given, free lunches served, and
showers of fruits and flowers be-
slowed upon the Fasteners. South
erners, however, who were fortunate
enough to wear the Christian En-
deavor badge, were not sighted.
San Francisco the objective point
of this western excursion, was reach
on the early morning of July 10th.
Life on tourist sleeper is novel,
but interesting, The time was
pleasantly whiled away by visiting,
eating, sleeping and sightseeing.
Oh, the latter! Words are made
quate to express the magnificent
grandeur of the Rockies and the de-
lightful picturesqueness of the Sier-
ras. The widest dreams of the
imagination cannot convey to the
mind a correct picture of the real
magnifcence of the western noun
tain scenery. Stop-overs were al
lowed at Colorado Springs, where
we failed to ascend Pixies Peak, ow.
ing to the ''hundreds ahead" At
Denver and at Salt Lake City,a bath
in this american Dead Sea" was
worth the entire trip. The writer,
who is well known for her dread of
fire and water, trusting to mans
superior judgment, donned bathing
suit, and in she plunged. With the
guiding hands of an entire stranger,
she foated on the bosom of that
most wonderful of. all American
waters for nearly an hour. These
waters are so impregnated with salt
that a crystal deposit is left on every
thing touched by its spray.
Salt Lake City, as a city, was a
disappointment. The scribe and
her companion were two in crowd
of 1000 in the Mormon Temple,
where was heard the famed Nor
mon choir, of 500 voices. The eff
feet was soul-stirring. The tenn
pie could be seen from the outside,
but no amount of promised brides
or coaxing from inquisitive tourists
could cause the doors to swing
open, so the hidden glories of the
interior had to be imagined.
San Francisco, "the city of /;
hundred hills" is most wonderful
place. Its development has beer
truly marvellous. One of the pleas
ant "reminiscences of our Frisco lif,
will ever be that of trip to SutrC
Heights. These grounds, baths
together with "Cliff House," ar
, open to the public at all times, ar
most magnificent and will be be
/ queathed to the city at the death o
the owner, Hon. Adolph Sutro, ex
mayor of Frisco. A most interest
, ing feature of the days pleasure wa
: an hours splash and swim in ger
. uine Pacific waters at the baths
The exhilirating effect will be re
membered for an age.
The city of the Golden Gate wa
left on the morning of the 18th inst
!, and a much needed rest sought
4 San Jose, the second capital of th
i state, and a veritable bower of foV
. ers. Think of geraniums hight
than your head, fuschias, plumb
Cos and other plants equally
d high! Roses are veritable trees,
! say nothing of ferns, cacti and palm
fl San lose Is uuite an iOtereGtiT