. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . States, produces littleexhaustion in the dry atmosphere of this centralbasin. Horses travel frequently 50 to 60 miles aday without injury, the thermometer marking100° or over. Stockton has not yet attainedthe importance as a railroad center, to which herposition entitles her. A nai-row gauge road tolone City was commenced, but there is no pros-pect of its early completion. The Stockton a
. The Pacific tourist : Adams & Bishop's illustrated trans-continental guide of travel, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean ... : a complete traveler's guide of the Union and Central Pacific railroads ... . States, produces littleexhaustion in the dry atmosphere of this centralbasin. Horses travel frequently 50 to 60 miles aday without injury, the thermometer marking100° or over. Stockton has not yet attainedthe importance as a railroad center, to which herposition entitles her. A nai-row 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 Big Trees^ Calaveras Group,—The best route to the Calaveras Grove of BigTrees is via Stockton and Milton. There isanother grove of big trees at INIariposa, 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 p. 1.—Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove. 2.—Three Graces, Calaveras Groii{). .>.—Scenes* m Mariposa —Trunk of Big Tree, Mariposa Grove. 5.—Natural Arch, Big Tree, Mariposa Grove. Group, Bi^ Trees. 252 TME ^^€IFl€ WQWMIBW. for INIilton ; stages leave Milton at p. m., andreach INIurphys 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 Valleyby this route requires 145 miles of staging. Thisroute to the Yosemite Valley via Milton, is calledthe Big
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