. Ralph's scrap book . ere commencestwenty-five miles of continuous down grade through the SanFrancisquite Canyon. Here Nature arranged her work in anextravagantly promiscuous manner. A]iparently she had nouse for straight lines or graceful geometrical cui\es. The mountain architecture oneither side of the can\onis of a • go-as-\du-please st\le, made up of oxer-grown humps and hol-lows, none of whiih ha\ebeen sand pa]iered. Theroadwa\ is as crooked asit is rough and rockv,and vice \ersa. hor the Itenetit of camp-ers en route to ^ osemite,anil who naturalh get tlisheartened and ilisgusted on or
. Ralph's scrap book . ere commencestwenty-five miles of continuous down grade through the SanFrancisquite Canyon. Here Nature arranged her work in anextravagantly promiscuous manner. A]iparently she had nouse for straight lines or graceful geometrical cui\es. The mountain architecture oneither side of the can\onis of a • go-as-\du-please st\le, made up of oxer-grown humps and hol-lows, none of whiih ha\ebeen sand pa]iered. Theroadwa\ is as crooked asit is rough and rockv,and vice \ersa. hor the Itenetit of camp-ers en route to ^ osemite,anil who naturalh get tlisheartened and ilisgusted on or belorcreaching the summit of San l<rancis(-|uite Can\on, let meassure you that this is the poorest mad ant! luost disagree-able climb in the whole trip. Near the center ol this drivewe found a camper with his faniih. lie had liroken anaxle, and had just returned finm the blacksmith where itwas repaired — ilistance, twent\-loiu miles. As exidiuce otthe crookedness of the road, a jiatient and cvnious man, who 440. PrtOTO 8V RALPH In camp under umbtella trppr., Fresno County had passed through the canyon, makes the official statement,that the stream of water runnins;^ therein crosses the rnatisixtv-nine times. ]>eside this stream, almut mid\va\ thecan)on, we found an enjowable place to camp for the )-ount; Californian and wife, with an ablirexiated, inex-pensive ; (uitfit, were neiyiiburini; camiiers. Whenwe crawled intu our cumfurtable bed in our camp wagon,they had rolled themsehes both in the same blanket andwere lying flat on the ground close as two bugs in a rug,ap|iarentlv as cimtented as tliey were near tn nature. We were miw within hft\ miles ot Iasadena, a distanceas comparetl t ur whole trij), hardh worth miles and we are at Newhall ; one more mountain tocross, known as the San I-ernando Pass, and we are in theSan Fernando \alle\. The interesting feature of the SanFernando Pass is the cut about a hundred feet deep throughthe
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