SCENIC EXCURSIONS 



California State Redwood Park in Santa Cruz 

 County. By Southern Pacific from Third and 

 Townsend Street Station, San Francisco; connec- 

 tion from Boulder Creek by motor stage for the 

 "Big Basin," fourteen miles. Return to Boulder 

 Creek and San Francisco next day. Cost, round 

 trip, railroad and stage fare, $5.00. From Oakland 

 take Southern Pacific train from First and Broad- 

 way, which makes connections at San Jose. 



Monterey, Del Monte, Pacific Grove, and Carmel. 

 By Southern Pacific from Third and Townsend 

 Street Station, San Francisco; through service with 

 observation car. All coast trains, each way, also 

 connect at Del Monte Junction for Del Monte, 

 Monterey and Pacific Grove. Cost, special summer 

 stop-over ticket, $4.75 round trip from San Fran- 

 cisco; Sunday only, no stop-over, $2.75; Saturday 

 to Monday, no stop-over, $3.25. 



Monterey is the Mission County of California, 

 and contains the missions of San Antonio, La Sole- 

 dad, and San Carlos; nearby, in San Benito County, 

 is Mission San Juan Bautista. 



Other objects of historical and dramatic inter- 

 est in and near Monterey are the old custom house 

 over which Commodore Sloat raised the first Ameri- 

 can flag in California; Colton Hall, where met the 

 State Constitutional Convention on September 1, 

 1849; the first theatre of the State, where Jenny 

 Lind sang in 1847; the first sawed lumber house 

 in California; the Sloat monument; the Sherman 

 rose tree; the Father Serra oak, and the Presidio. 

 On the shores of Monterey Bay are several fish 

 canneries and one for packing the abalone. In and 

 near Pacific Grove are the municipal museum, the 

 marine biological station of Stanford University, the 

 groves of Monterey cypress, and the g9vernment 

 lighthouse at Point Pinos. Beyond Pacific Grove 

 is Carmel, a secluded summer resort, and the Mis- 

 sion of San Carlos Borromeo de Monterey. The 

 cost of carriage for the Seventeen Mile Drive over 

 the Monterey Peninsula is from $5.00 to $10.00. At 

 Del Monte is the Hotel del Monte, a famous pleasure 

 resort, with 125 acres of landscape gardens, polo 

 and golf grounds, tennis courts and a natatorium. 



Sixteen miles southeast of Monterey is the pros- 

 perous Pajaro Valley. Salinas, the county-seat, is 

 reached over an excellent road through a charming 

 pine and oak district. A few miles from Salinas, 

 at Spreckels, is one of the largest beet sugar plants 

 in the State. 



There is a beautiful drive down the coast, in a 

 southerly direction, from Monterey to Idlewild, 

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