AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE,

yond which is the most magnificent moss
view that one could conceive. Sycamore
and moss-drooping oaks are very plentiful,
reminding one of the appearance of a
New England apple orchard after a storm
of snow and rain, where all the limbs and
boughs are borne down with icicles and
snow.

GILRoy—is seven and a half miles from
Tennant and 80.8 miles from San Francisco ;
a regular eating station, where trains stop
twenty minutes for meals, which are very
good; price, 50 cents. Gilroy contains a

population of about 2,000, most of whom |

are engaged in agricultural and pastoral
pursuits. Tobacco is raised in large quan-
tities, and dairying is made a specialty by
many of the people. The principal hotels
are the Southern Pacific and the Williams.

Stages leave Gilroy for San Fillipe, 10
miles; Los Banos, 48 miles; and Fire-
baughs, 80 miles east; fare ten cents per
mile. Stages run daily to the Gilroy Hot
Springs, a very attractive resort, 15 miles
east. From Gilroy it is 2.2 miles to

CARNADERO—A smiall station where pas-
senger trains meet, and from which a track
branches to the left and continues up the
Santa Clara Valley, 11.8 miles to

HOoLLEsTER—a thrifty town of 2,000 in-
habitants, most of whom are agriculturists.
From Hollester it is 6.2 miles to TResprnos
—-the end of the track,

From this point large quantities of
freight are shipped for the New Idris
Quicksilver, Picacho and other mines in
the country, to the south and east. Stages
run tri-weekly to San Bruno, 25 miles;
New Idria, 65 miles; Picacho, 75 miles;
fare about ten cents per mile.

The original route of the Southern
Pacific railroad was from this point, via
San Benito Pass to Goshen, in the San
Joaquin Valley. From Goshen the road is
built a distance of 40 miles this way, to
Huron. Whether thelink between the two
divisions will be completed and when, we
will never tell, till we know. The distance
across to Huron is, to San Benito Pass, 60
miles; to Huron, 100 miles.

Returning to Carnadero, we soon come
to the great Bloomfield Ranche, which
takes in many thousand acres, crossing
the valley and over the mountains, on each
side. It is the home of Mr. Miller, of Lux
& Miller, the great cattle men. At Baden,
twelve miles from San Francisco, we pass
Mr. Lux’s place, the “ Twelve Milé Farm.”

On this ranche.are kept and fattened great.

numbers of cattle, for the market of San
Francisco.

Continuing up the valley, which is here
narrowed to one mile in width, with low-
grass-covered hills on each side, we come to
the residence of Senator Sargent, on
the right, and a short distance further,

SARGENT StatTron—in the midst of a
dairy country. Stages leave here for San
Juan, south, six miles distant, up a little
valley to the left, distinctly seen a few miles
further on our way.

Soon after leaving the station, we turn
more to the westward, and the little valley
is completely crowded out by the bluffs,
and we run along on the bank of Pajaro
River, up a narrow canyon, and cross the
line between Santa Clara and Santa Cruz
county, at the point where Pescadero
Creek comes in on the right. Continuing
up, between high bluffs, we cross a bridge
over the Pathro River and are in San
Benito county, then dive through a tunnel
950 feet long, and come out into the beauti-
ful Pajaro Valley, which is nine miles long
and four wide, a portion of the Aroma
Grant, once a very extensive one. The
Santa Cruz Mountains are high, on the
right, and covered with a dense growth of
redwoods. Passing Vega, a signal station,
we come to

PagaRo-—-(pronounced Pad-ro) thirteen
miles from Sargent’s, and 99.4 from San
Francisco.

WATSONVILLE—is one mile to the right
from this station, and contains a popula-
tion of 4,000, and is a thrifty town, situated
three miles from Watson’s landing, on
Monterey Bay, where steamers and other
vessels land regularly. It contains two
weekly papers, the Pajaronian and the
Transcript. The Lewis House is the prin-
cipal hotel.

From Pajaro, the Santa Cruz, narrow-
gauge railroad connects with the Southern
Pacific. This road is 21.15 miles long and
tuns through Watsonville, Aptos, and
Soquel,to Santa Cruz. (See map, page 201.)
The lumber business is, next to the agri-
cultural, the most important interest in
this section of the country. From Pajaro, |
our course will be east of south, to the end
of the road.

Rolling down this beautiful valley, we
come to Elkhorn Slough, over which our
road is built on piles for a long distance.
To the right, down this slough, is Moss

‘Landing, nine miles distant, between which

and a pier, close on our right, a small