Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nning to Templeton.Around Castroville is one of the greatest wheat growing regions of California.The ordinary yield is from 40 to 50 bushels to the acre, though as high as 102bushels have been grown here—the largest yield on record. (Population, 600.Distance from San Francisco, no miles. Elevation, 17 feet.) From Castroville we follow the curving shore of the Bay of Monterey; attimes within a short distance of the shore, and at others somewhat farther inland.Sand dunes and salt marshes testify to the nearness of the ocean. Del Moilte. In the heart of a lovely grove the train stops at a tastefulrustic pavilion, which is the station. Broad, graveled roads sweep up to thestation in graceful curves, and here stand waiting richly appointed four-horsecarriages, in which guests for the famous Hotel del Monte are conveyed to theirdestination. Glimpses of the hotel to the left can be caught through the intersticesof the trees; while vines and shrubs and flowers grow everywhere in studied and
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HOTEL DEL MONTE. A Palace of Delight. The Queen of AmericanWatering Places. TO TI$E GOLDEN GATE. 229 artistic confusion. The drive to the hotel along the broad, tree lined avenues,shaded by immemorial and stately live oaks, through which vistas of sylvan beautycan be seen, gives one a foretaste of the charms of this one of the most charmingplaces in the world. The hotel is first seen through a vista of trees.and, in its beautiful embcwerment of foliage andflowers, resembles some rich private home in themidst of a broad park. This impression is height-ened when the broader extent of avenues, lawnsand flower-bordered walks come into view. Thegardeners art has turned many acres into a choiceconservatory, where the richest flowers blossom inprofusion. Here and there are swings, croquetgrounds, an archery, lawn-tennis courts, and binsof fine beach sand—the latter being intended for the use and amusementof the children, who can not await the bathing hour for the daily visit tothe beach. T

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