The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1917-03-09

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outside cities, except the gasoline. We
paid as high forty cents gallon
for that. Owing to altitude, an en-
CINE consumes about fifty per cent
more fuel for the same mileage as in
lower attitudes.
Having our own auto we made fire.
quent trips about the valley and ex-
plored its wonders. The valley prop
er is seven miles long and averages a
mile in width. 1t is of glacial origin.
The MERGED river began the erosion
and the tributary streams had their
part. Then came the age Of ice and
the blowing and grinding action OF
those great rivers Of ice called gla-
ciers. The tributary valleys with
their attendant. streams became wat
erfalls, and such they are today
There are meadows on the floor OF
the valley, but for the most part it is
wooded with oaks, pines and cedars
MANY of these trees are six feet in
diameter, showing the great age OF the
valley.
For the most part the sides OF the
valley are precipitous or perpendicu-
lar, some of the decomposed rock
having dropped to the base forming
q slope. The rock is practically all
granite. GRANTEES having been made
by the action of heat, all traces of
fossils and qualification have been OBJ
liberated. By no means are the walls
of the valley to be understood as uni
form in appearance. They are cut
and carved by Natures forces, into
great spires, lofty domes, sculptured
walls, relieved by numerous water
falls.
Camp Curry is at the base of an al
most perpendicular wall rising 3,214
feet to Glacier Point above. The
floor of the valley is about $500 feet
above the sea level. The heights of
the falls and rocks that I will give
are from the floor of the valley, and
to that must be added $500 feet to
get altitude above sea level. Ell Capt.
tan, prominent rocky mass rises
1904 feet; North Dome, 3,571 ;
Cloud S Rest, 1894; Cathedral Spires,
2,154; Seminal Dome, 4,157; Half
Dome, 1892. Some of the falls are
as follows: The Yosemite Falls drop
| $40 feet in one fall, and then fur
Their fall Of 800 feet. The first fall
is equal to nine Niagaras piled one
on top of another. We refer to height,
not to volume. The celebrated Bridal
Veil, Falls has a drop of $40 feet.
Ribbon Falls, the highest of all,
drops 1872 feet in one fall. 1t is
said that nowhere else in the world
may be had a water spectacle such
rs this.
Monday morning, September IL, we
broke camp, packed our belongings,
pade, ,gApdr bye to 1.-The squirrels, the
birds, the rocks and waterfalls, the
pines and the wonderful
river, and began the ascent of the
| ,76O #. grade in the next three and
,ne-half miles. l wish some of you
evel country people would hitch up
your machines and try it. Our load
,ther than the machine equaled six
leavy people. You know that none
If our party is listed among the light
The lower halves of the
hood of the machine were folded up
for free ventilation, and then the
water boiled. Our machine behaved
much better than the majority of
hem, but the high altitude made the
polling point much lower.
Our return to MERGED was the same
'oad as we took going in. We had
Intended c a different return course,
,ut the related experiences of others
caused us to avoid dangers we knew
lot of. We spent four days with
friends in Stockton and another four
lays in Oakland and San Francisco.
The drive Of rs miles from Stock
on to Oakland is indeed scenic. We
crossed the Coast range, but the roads
we're paved and the trip was easy.
We visited the University Of Cali
'ornia at Berkeley. They claim
early enrolment Of 10000. We Wis.
ted the exposition grounds at San
francisco and found the buildings all
orn down, with two or three except
ions.
On Wednesday morning, September
20, we took ferry across San Fran
.isco Bay and began the return jour
ley. We drove down the peninsula
IN which San Francisco is built, the
,cean on the west and the bay on the
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