Francisco to Milton is 133 miles, and a daily stage runs in close connec- 

 tion. The country is an ideal one for fowling, pleasantly rolling, with a 

 gradual rise in elevation, an open woodland of oak, pine, laurel ami 

 buckeye, with suitable growth of underbrush for covert The atmosphere 

 is invigorating and the scenery most satisfying to aesthetic tastes. Out 

 of Milton the first change of team is at Copperopolis, and soon after 

 leaving this latter place game will be seen along the roadside. Choice 

 can be made between livery or the stage. The charge in neither 

 case will be an unreasonable one, but the stage will be found well 



suited to the purpose of covering the country, since satisfactory arrange- 

 ments can be made to stop over at pleasure and resume the trip on a sub- 

 sequent day. Attractive farm-houses are easily found for temporary enter- 

 tainment, and the people are given to hospitality. The Stanislaus and 

 Tuolumne Rivers will be crossed and many old-time Placer mining camps 

 visited ; now and again men found yet at work, with more or less profit, 

 washing auriferous gravel. 



At all points in great numbers game awaits your coming quail, 

 doves, and squirrels, occasionally a wild pigeon. After crossing historic 



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