AND PACIFIC COAST GUIDE.

The illustration on page 153 represents a small
party of Apache Mohaves, headed by their famous
war chief, Mi-ra-ha, in 1868, who, having heard
about the terrible ‘‘fire-wagons,” left their country,
in northern Arizona, and made a pilgrimage to the
northward, many hundred miles, to view the great
curlosity. We learned from a half-breed, on a re-
cent visit to Arizona, that Mi-ra-ha, after his re-
ture to Arizona, resolved to gather his forces and
capture one of these Pacific Railroad ‘‘fire-wacons.
But as Gen. Crook made it very lively for him at
home for many years after his return, and as Cept.
Porter sent him to his “happy hunting ground,”
in 1876, he has probably got all he can attend to.

No. 49 Annex. Palace Hotel at San
EFrancisco—This monster hotel of the world, is
situated in the city of San Francisco occupying
one entire block of ground, 344 by 265 feet,
bounded by New Montgomery, Market, Annie and
Jessie streets. It is seven stories high (115 feet),
the foundation walls are twelve feet thick, while
the exterior and interior walls range from 1% feet
to 4 4éteet in thickness.

The foundation walls, at their base, are built
‘with inverted arches. All exterior, interior and
partition walls, at every ‘five feet, commencing
from the bottom of the foundation, are banded to-
gether with bars of iron, forming, as it were, a
perfect iron basket-work filled in with brick. The
quantity of iron so used increases in every story
towards the ruof, and in‘the upper story the iron
bands are only two feet apart.

The roof is of tin, the partitions of brick and the
cornice of zinc andiron. The building has three
courts, the center one haying an iron-framed glass
covering, and is 144 by 84 feet, with a drive-way
and sidewalk opening on New Montgomery street,
forty feet wide. The two outer courts, from the
basement level, are each 22 by 185 feet, with two
drive-ways, 20 feet wide, one from Market and An-
nie streets, and one from Annie and Jessie streets.
These are connected by two brick-arched passage-
ways, ten feet in width, allowing ample space for
. oe eee team to pass under and through

em.

Besides the city water-works, a supply of water
comes from four artesian wells of a ten-inch bore,
which have a capacity of 28,000 gallons per hour.
A reservoir is located under the center court, cap-
able of containing 630,000 gallons. On the roof are
seven tanks, which will contain 128,000 gallons.

The hotel is supplied with two steam force
pumps for water, two additional for fire, five ele-
vators, together with all the modern improvements,
and built throughout in the most substantial man-
ner. (See illustration page 213.)

No. 50 Aynex. Fares to Black Hills—
From Omaha, ist class, $45; emigrant, a
from Cheyenne or Sidney, $40; from Ogden, Utah,
$70; from San Francisco, $116.

Passengers can have choice of route, via Sidney
or Cheyenne, as the rates are the same.

No. 51 Annex. Books of Reference—
‘The Resources of California,” by John 8. Hit-
tell. A. Roman & Co., San Francisco. This is a
valuable work.

“SCENES OF WONDER AND CURIOSITY IN Cati-
FORNIA,” by J. M. Hutchings. A. Roman & Co.,
San Francisco.

be om

ponvegs"s CALIFORNIA ;” Harper & Bro., New

York.
Wentworth’s “Resources of Caltfornia;” a
monthly newspaper.
“BrerwEEN THE Gatxs;” by B. F.Taylor. S. 0.
Griggs &Co., Chicago. This is a perfect gem ofa
work. The descriptions are of the finest pen

 

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| pictures of California and the ‘ Overland Route,”

we ever saw. Taylor’s ingenuity asa word painter
has few equals; he is a hiyu chief.
pen ey® “PactFic Coast Business Directory,”
which comprises everything of the sort west of
ce poeey Mountains—is an invaluable work of the
ind.

The “Svientific Press,” by Dewey & Co., San
Francisco, is a Joarna] that everybody interested
in—or who wants to know anything about—the
Pacific Coast should be sure to read.

“ARIZONA AS IT 18,” by H. C. Hodge, Hsq.,
Hurd & Houghton, New York, is the most com-
plete work on Arizona ever published.

In Press: “Sones or THE SouTHWwEst,”” by
Theodore F. Price, will contain graphic poetical
descriptions of the Trans-Mississippi country, east
of the Rocky Mountains. This book will be found
an invaluable work for all those who wish to pre-
serve the memory of scenes and incidents of this
most beautiful and romantic country.

No. 52 Annex. “ Prickey.” the Horned
TWoad.—This singular little member of the lizard
species is certainly a native Californian. It, is
found upon nearly every dry hill, or gravelly plain ;
and although it is rare in some districts, in others
itisstillcommon. There are several varieties and
sizes of it, and all perfectly harmless. It lives
chiefly on flies and small insects. A California
friend of ours had a pair of these picketed in
front of his cabin for over three months; and, one
morning, the male toad wound itself around the
picket pin and strangled to death, and the same day
the female followed his example. Upon a post
mortem examination of the female, fifteen eggs
were found about the size and shape of a small
wren’s egg. (See illustration, page 115.)

No. 53 Annex. Wo-Semite and Big
Trees—By the new Madera Route, passen-
gers take sleeping cars at San Francisco, at
4 Pp. m., take supper at Lathrop, at 8 P. m..
and arrive at Madera at 12, midnight, occupy the
cars till six the next morning, then take one of
Kimball’s palace coaches, and behind “six-in-
hand,” start for Fresno Flats, 35 miles distant, and
take dinner; thence 20 miles to Clarks, and 23 miles
turther—%8 miles from Madera—reach the valley at
8o’clock P.M. This route is via Fresno and Mari-

osa big tree groves, and it is claimed, saves one
ay in time over all other routes.
eturning, a route can be taken via Vernal and
Nevada Falls, Glacier’s Point and Sentinel Dome,
and thence to Clark’s, saving a day in time by so
doing. Parties, whose “‘timeis money,” can leave
San Francisco and make the “round trip” inside of
four days. Return parties, who choose, can take
the route via Mariposa to Mercede. Tickets are
‘ood until used, verland tickets, including Yo-
emite and the “Big Trees,” can be purchased at
all the principal ticket offices in the east. E

Another route is to Mercede, by same train,
stop over at the El Capitan Hotel, and next mor-
ning take coaches via either Snelling and Coulter-
ville, or via Mariposa. Taking the Coulterville
route, 12 miles, at Marble Springs, is Bower's
Cave; 20 more, Hazel Green. From Hazel Green,
elevation 6,699 feet, a fine view of the great San
Joaquin Valley can be obtained. Here the Mc-
Lane wagon road leads off to the Mercede Grove of
Trees. At Crane Flat, 34miles from Coulterville,
a trail leads off to the Tuolumne Grove of Big
Trees, one mile distant. There are 31 trees, the |
langeat being 36 feet in diameter. The first view!
of Yo-Semite is had at Valley View, 40 miles from
Coulterville and 12 miles from Yo-Semite, Dis-
tance by this route about 95 miles,