. The Pacific tourist . s, produces littleexhaustion in the dry atmosphere of this centralbasin. Horses travel frequently 50 to 60 miles aday without injui-y, the thermometer markingloi)*-^ or over. Stockton has not yet attainedth(^ 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 f
. The Pacific tourist . s, produces littleexhaustion in the dry atmosphere of this centralbasin. Horses travel frequently 50 to 60 miles aday without injui-y, the thermometer markingloi)*-^ or over. Stockton has not yet attainedth(^ 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 thf Biff Treeft, Calaveras Gronj).—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. Theconq)arative inducements to visit one or theotlu-r, 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. M.,. 1.—Giu/1> Gi . Grove. 2 < u uo. .-Group „--•;-; ^-r^lT^ of Bis Tree, Mariposa Grove. Natural Arch, Big Tree, Mariposa Grove, Group, Big Trees. for ]Milton ; stages leave Milton at p. m., andreach Murphys at 7 p. m., where the first nightis spent. The Grove, 1-5 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 A^alley bythis route requires 145 miles of staging. Thisroute to the Yosemite Valley via iMilton, is calledthe Big Oak Flat, or Hutchings Route, theformer nam=! from a local point on the road, andth3 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 w
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