1: T A H O E Y E L L O W S T O N E N A T 0 N A L P A R K A few ho u rs delightfu l ride from T ruckee alo ng the - banks of thel u mbli ng T ru ckeeRiver . LO W S lD E T R 1 P RAT ES S to overs ermitted on all O verland and Pu llman tickets. p p — o w i e - tri rat to thi s em of theSierra twent - three O nl one ni ht ride ea ch wa f ro m O e L s d p es g y y g y gd n . ‘ f t d S v ow miles lon thirteen wide o ver two thou sand ee ee . topo e rs a ll ed on all R a i l and P u llman uc et g, , p T k s . u st no ti f the condu cto r and he wil l arra e hi J y ng . o Fis n . Boati n and Mo u n E"cellent H o tels. Tr ut g g B ea u i f u l c t S ener . Gi ant e se rs G ‘ lai n Clim in y y b g . S E E AGE N T S ‘ 884 M a rket S t I 4 P owel l S L M arket S treet Ferr D e o t S a n F r ancisco , , y p . T I C K ET opplcg s L AK E T AH O A WA RA N S P ORT A e E R I L Y T TI ON Co ‘ , T aho . C a l. 884 M k S t I 4 P w a r et , o ell S t , M arket S treet Fe r r D e ot ran s o y p , S an F ci c C H S . A 5 . FEE Passen e r a a e , g T raffic M n g r AS . HO RS B J URGH r . G a l . n r P asse e nt J , e e ng r Age S O U T H E R N P A C F C T I CKET OFFICES 884 M a rket S treet LOS AN G ELES I 4 Powell S treet SAN TA BARBARA Bro adway and 1 3th Streets FRESN O 40 E ast S ant a Cla ra Avenu e SAN D I EGO OR D EPOT AGE N TS AT ALL S OU THERN PACI FIC S TAT 10N S H E SI ERRA N EVAD A trees ; where groves of tall pines and groups of black oaks are Snowy Range—has been well interspersed with carpets of emerald verdure made colorful by renamed by ohn Muir the Range m ny fl o wers l J a varieties of wild , such as lupines , daisies , go den L of ight ; for these mountains rods , mints . with green ferns in secluded dells ; altogether a ll flowered of California are the I umined quaint . landscape of trees and plain and stream with — w - . l ll Mountains Their mura a s stretches of shrubs the red stemmed manzanita , the chin uapin — q , l l l l a o th s l rise to over thirteen thousand the beautifu Ca ifornia i ac "ce n u ", go d cup oak and feet , and the battlemented their kind . fif teen A l l tran u il l - l peaks and domes hun bove this eve , o oveliness rise mile high , c oud l . r dred feet higher in the c ouds supporting walls , grim and g ay in place , here and there colored ' - O u thei r flanks and lower sides marvelously . Sculptured giant fashion into domes and half d ar are the k covers of the domes , spires and pinnacles and frowning precipices , recessed ' t world s greatest coniferous forests ; above , the High Sierra for dropping rivers , hese Sierra walls encompass our meadow - glows , amber like in the afternoon sun of summer , graced with and make of it the fl owerf u l floor of a great chasm . - w i n chains of pearl Iike mountain lakes and each high peak throated Yet brook and meadow , green and flo er g color of wild a with sca rf of snow . These high granite walls are here and blossom , own the sunshine and are not overborne by the carved - l a lan. there riven by great chasms , ice scu ptured on mighty p mountains above ; the daisy is as much at home in the Yosemite Of - l H lf . these deep Sierra rifts , the greatest in sheer walls and mighty as is the c oud like a Dome at the head of the Valley In ll l . waterfalls is the Yosemite . waterfa s and sheer c iffs the Yosemite is supreme Nowhere The Yosemite National P a rk is in the heart of the Sierra else do rivers thunder over cliffs a half-mile high "nor in any - — l - in central eastern California , and is now easy of access none other p ace have the snow waters of high mountains found w ll of the American wonderlands more so . From north and south such variety and beauty of courses down mountain a s the Southern P acific joins the Yosemite Valley Railroad at to unify in a valley river . Out from beneath the great snow - o Merced , and the l atter with a journey of eighty miles up the mantle of the High Sierra in spring pour the snow waters int l rk ll beautiful Merced River takes the trave er to the pa line the cup of the Yosemite ; and a sum—mer , though in lessening E . i l . w Portal A stage ride o f fourteen miles completes the trip volume , these forested . fl o er ng . Iake dotted mountains , great to the heart of the Valley . Both at El Portal and in the reservoirs of crystal clear water , continue to feed the streams ad Valley are such ties to civilization the year round as steam of the Valley . With lessening waters are compensatory - l heated , electric lighted hotels , with telephone , telegraph and vantages ; the regions of the upper air are more accessib e and " offi ces. express There are comfortable tent villages in summer the weather guaranteed fine. - — l o f l l F ll . for those who wou d be out doors ; and for others , nearer Entering the Va ley , on the south wa l are Bridal Veil a s l l l kin to the wi derness and who wou d rest beneath bright stars , Its water slips over the top of granite rock . white , etherea , r ri hlm there is the whole width of the Sierra , with d y, clear summer a d seems to drop its tenuous into the treetops , appearing u nn . nights and s y days small and feeble at first, so overpowering is the impression of l The Yosemite is now accessible in winter as well as in the mightier wal . Nearer . and there comes a sense of great f summer ; hence to its attractions is added the singular impres power . The highest European alls is said to be the Staubbach si veness - . l l of great snow robes To the Ca ifornian , to whom or Dust Brook in Switzer and ; but this one is higher , leaps out ll blo om l winter usua y mean oranges and orange ss s , rose tourna of a smoother channe . has greater volume of water and is u l nd flowers ments and p a s of wild , this accessibility bri ngs the seen in the midst of loftier precipices . The stream is full thirty l - f first o . ll nove ty of the ski ing , skating , tobogganing and kindred j ys feet wide , and a s a distance of six hundred feet , then The Yosemite National P ark covers a domain thirty - six by rushes over a sloping pile of debris and drops a perpendicular - ll a cu l- d - s forty eight miles ; the Va ey itself is e a c about seven distance of three hundred feet more . But from the chief points - l a l . mi es long by three q uarters of mi e wide . Its center is a of view it seems to make but one plunge , and the effect , Prof " l - l l D . evel park ike meadow through which a tunefu river runs ; a J . Whitney said , is that of being nine hundred feet in l l d ll peacefu p ace where , over the streams ben alder . wi ow , vert i cal height . fl oweri n b lm l - l g dogwood . a of Gi ead and other water oving Around the shoulder , behind which Bridal Veil Creek makes 3 N EVAD A FALLS others fro ' o r spire , low its apex l S nearly he river at its base is feet . md majestic monument stands Sentinel top is feet above the Valley . two f a its conoidal or onion - l ike layers when we s rirn . into the Valley like a buttress , and presents to cale the of the Valley r i al a single glance a supefic area of more than four hundred We are now at the social center of Yosemite , and the hotel , he El th osto ce offices . t l acres It is said that stupendous bulk of Capitan is the camps , e ittle p ffi , a few shops and , are such that it can be seen from a certain vantage—ground at a gathered near here and opposite the great waterfall called after distance of sixty miles .