Identifier: pacifictourist1877will (find matches)
Title: The Pacific tourist
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T Shearer, Frederick E
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Central Pacific Railroad Company Railroad travel Railroad travel Railroad travel
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
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n States, produces littleexhaustion in the dry atmosphere of this centralbasin. Horses travel frequently 50 to 60 miles aday without injury, the thermometer markinglOO*^ or over. Stockton has not yet attainedthe importance as a railroad center, to which herposition entitles her. A narrow gauge road tolone City was commenced, but there is no pros-pect of its early completion. The Stockton andCopperopolis Railroad extends easterly into Cala-veras and Stanislaus Counties, the main branch30 miles to Milton, with a branch at Peters, 15miles from Stockton, to Oakdale, 34 miles fromStockton. To the Biff Trees, Calaveras Crronp.—The best route to the Calaveras Grove of BigTrees is via Stockton and Milton. There isanother grove of big trees at Mariposa, which isbest reached from Lathrop and Merced. Thecomparative inducements to visit one or theother, will be stated hereafter, and here will be de-scribed only the route from Stockton to the Cala-veras Grove. Cars leave Stockton at 12.35 p. m..
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4.-Trunk of Big Tree, Mariposa Grove. 5.-Natural Arch, Big Tree, Mariposa urove 252 TMM ^m€IFm WQWMiBT. for Iklilton ; stages leave Milton at 2.45 p. m., andreacli Mui-phys at 7 p. m., where the first nightis spent. The Grove, 15 miles from Murphys, is reachedthe next day at 11 a. m., and those who desirecan leave at 3 p. m. the same day, and return toMurphys for the second night. On the followingday one may reach San Francisco, or go to Gar-rote, 45 miles from the Yosemite Valley. Tovisit the Calaveras Grove and Yosemite Valley bythis route requires 145 miles of staging. Thisroute to the Yosemite Valley via Milton, is calledtlie Big Oak Flat, or Hutchings Route, theformer nami^ from a local point on the road, andthe latter after the man who in past years didmore than any other to make the Yosemite Valleyknown, and by whose untiring energy the stageroad to it was opened. It is one of three routesby which the valley is reached without horsebackriding. It is the shortest route from St

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