. Ralph's scrap book . e thirty-two miles, including thismountain pass, driving through the towns of Santa Margar-ita, Paloma and Teniiileton to Paso Robles where we arecamped for the night in the heart of the city on the mainboulevartl under a mas-sive oak measming six-teen and a half feet incircumference. It hasbeen a delightful crossing the moun-tains the road windscontinuously a m o n glarge rolling hills, dottedwith oaks resembling inshape eastern a [) p 1 e °^ »? ?> , . , , , Yosemite bound wreck trees, making the whole distance ajjpear like a vast exjianse of New England a
. Ralph's scrap book . e thirty-two miles, including thismountain pass, driving through the towns of Santa Margar-ita, Paloma and Teniiileton to Paso Robles where we arecamped for the night in the heart of the city on the mainboulevartl under a mas-sive oak measming six-teen and a half feet incircumference. It hasbeen a delightful crossing the moun-tains the road windscontinuously a m o n glarge rolling hills, dottedwith oaks resembling inshape eastern a [) p 1 e °^ »? ?> , . , , , Yosemite bound wreck trees, making the whole distance ajjpear like a vast exjianse of New England appleorchard, a large portion of which is sown to grain. Thedark bronze green color of the oak on distant hills, carpetedwith waving grain fields almost a Nile green, makes a grandpicture and combination of colors most ]ileasing to the Robles has eighteen hundred human beings. It is thecleanest and prettiest little city we have seen since our backturned on lovel)- Pasadena. It has man)- brick buildings395. and a he it el of which any city well be proud and thefinest schoolhouse we have seen in California exceptingonly Riversides new high school building. She has also astreet railway and a very large, elegantly appointed bathhouse where she makes a specialty of rheumatic same day we arrived at San Luis Obispo, a party ofsix persons departed therefrom for the Yosemite valley in alarge camp wagon drawn by four horses. In their passageof the mountains the first half da\- out the driver lost con-trol of his horses, and the\- dashed down the steep gradesmashing things generall). It was almost a miracle thatanything was left by which to identify the team or the occu-pants. Luckih, however, no one was seriouslv wreck by the roadside as we passed made a finesnap shot for our kodak fiend, and we had a short inter-view with the victims of the catastrophe, who were campeda little farther down the mountain waiting for another con-vevance in which t
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