Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1905-09-13
LAKE TAHOE.
Some Of the Charms on the West
Side.


largest diamond was discovered with
in the year, Californian globe-trot-
ter, recently announced to car load
OF tourists that Lake Tahoe still re-
mains the largest and most beautiful
jewel in the world
The traveller in question had just
completed his twentieth visit to the
lake, over J route from Truckee to
Tahoe City-now rendered one Of the
most charming and picturesque rail-
road journeys in all creation. He was
right in all his estimates. The grand
old lake is Incompatible. There is
nothing like it anywhere else upon
<|ale globe. An army surgeon, recent
ly returned from the PHILIPPINES made
the statement that only on the island
of Mendanao could the world pro-
duce lake in any manner to be clas
sified with the mighty gem, set in the
girdle that binds Nevada and Cali
fornia in a sisterhood inseparable
1t is a far cry to those indigestible
crumbs of empire-the islands across
the Pacific-bnt men have journeyed
farther to look at sights less majestic
than ours in the high Sierras.
And by the way, the wonder is that
the people of Carson do not more fire.
quently approach the Lake by that
little winding railroad from .Truckee
to the Tavern. There is grandeur
and dust, by our Cleer-creek route,
and different sort of grandeur, min
us the dust, as the cars wind swiftly
and comfortably along, beside the
tumbling Truckee river, for the Ma
ture-loving traveller who is so fortu-
nate as to wish for and grasp at
variety in the ways of arriving at
the Lake. Along that byway the
towering rines and frs still stand
in all their prestine glory. Titanic
crags, like ruined forts and castles,
cut jagged profiles against the tour
quOise of the sky. The ancient river
like an exemplification of Nature $
forceful mood runs under. around and
beside the modern train that boasts
the prowess of man. Indeed, from
the open observation. cars, the favored
tourists beholds such an unfolding OF
gigantic panoramas as only the west
erners know. And then-there is a.
ways the end Of the journey-the
Ike itself and the more than su.
perb Tahoe Tavern.
1t is doubtful if anything more uni
fed in beauty than the Tahoe TaverL
has ever been built Not only has
the natural wild charms of the lake
side been preserved, where the Tav
ern and it's adjoining buildings stand
but there is not so much as one jar
ring note to mar the handiwork o
either man or God. The place wa
conceived in beauty singularly ar
propriate and satisfying. In man
ways it readily surpasses the flames
IlOtCl uCl NlOAtC, III lie oil ways ulS
cordant note or artificiality which a
taches to the noted seaside carr.
vansary will never be charged cor
corning the Tavern. For the easter
part Of the Continent, the writer n
joices to be able to state that eve
Laurel in the Pines, of Lakewoo.
oIx
among the hotels for the eastern pc
sons of wealth-affords less beaut
4. and no more of comfort than on
Tavern, to say nothing at all regar,
ing the setting bestowed upon til
two environments by Nature. Wit
our matchless lake added, the Tavel
has no peers, as thing of superl
tive charm. 1t was wholly created !
Nevada brains and capital. wherefol
we of Nevada, are entitled to fl
NOR pride in it's faultlessness the
are even the Californians, in who
borders it has it's setting
1t is altogether strange how few
the ardent admirers of the lake re
lie that this, more than perhaps al
other, is, in many ways, is the mo
sons. Indeed, it is never too la
>olightful of all the mountain sc
to go to the Lake. In this come
ton it is pertinent to hint that t
people OF Carson should make know
a desire, at least once a year, f
the transportation companies concel
ed, to arrange an excursion from tt
city via Reno and Truckee, in ord
that the novelty and pleasure of til
trip over the mountain railroad, fro
Truckee to the Lake, may be enjoy