Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . during the last periodthere was $5,958 expended for maintenance from the Motor VehicleFund road is under the care of J. E. Mitchell, superintendent. Mono Lake Basin Koad. The history of this road has been somewhatstormy and it is believed to warrant being set out at .some length. For manv vears the people of ,., Mono and Alpine counties hadadvocated the construction ..f a road across the Sierras, giving a directroute of travel between the connuunities ,m the east side
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . during the last periodthere was $5,958 expended for maintenance from the Motor VehicleFund road is under the care of J. E. Mitchell, superintendent. Mono Lake Basin Koad. The history of this road has been somewhatstormy and it is believed to warrant being set out at .some length. For manv vears the people of ,., Mono and Alpine counties hadadvocated the construction ..f a road across the Sierras, giving a directroute of travel between the connuunities ,m the east side of the moun-tains and the valleys on the west. After the creation of the State lUireau of Highways m 189o and itssubsequent change into the State Department of Highways, renewedefforts were made to obtain the road. During 1896-7-8 the HighwayCommissioners examination of .several mountain passes that weresugo-ested and recomnuMided the adopti(m of a rout., through LeeviningCreek In 1899 a .-ommission was appointed by the Secretary of War,„ report upon for Yosemite National Park and the California. ? ii^wi--v^^fr^
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