Reasonable entertainment awaits at Weldon, with saddle, pack ani- 

 mals and guide for the trail to Whitney Creek. Out from Weldon you 

 will reach the down-flowing waters from the snows and glaciers of Mt. 

 Whitney finally to end their romantic life in the prosaic work of valley 

 irrigation. These will mark your upward way and at all points reveal 

 " The lightly-jumpin' glowrin' trouts, 

 That thro' the waters play," 



eager for leap at the glancing butterfly, that shall be commissary to 

 your creel. The camp for the first night should be near the point of inter- 

 section with the trail that comes in from Visalia via Mineral King. 



VISALIA MINERAL KING TRAIL This routing for Whitney Creek 

 is more traveled than the one by Caliente and Weldon. The railway 

 of Southern Pacific Company may be taken to Visalia, or better still 

 as saving ten miles of staging, to Exeter, 259 miles from San Francisco, 

 on the line from Fresno to Porterville, and by prearrangement take 

 stage at this station for Mineral King. The pack train and commis- 

 s iry should be engaged in advance, to be in waiting at Mineral King. 

 The staging distance from Visalia is sixty-five miles, with ten less if 

 taken at Exeter. 



At Mineral King, after a restful night, the pack train will get in 

 motion for your anglers' Mecca, to be achieved at the close of two most 

 enjoyable days. Fine trout water streams and lakes are always under 

 observation, and while the guide is making your camp and starting the 

 fires, fish can be secured for the feast. It will not be difficult to find 

 Golden Trout water that is virgin, but more so to obtain one's consent 

 to any early return to prosaic life on the plains. Lovers of gamy trout 

 the veteran angler, Reverend Myron W. Reed, whose skill with rod and 

 line is surpassed only by that of his pen, should come here for a new 

 sensation, and see his "gold-sprinkled living arrows" in the pure 

 mountain waters that gave them birth, and see that this most refining 

 sport is not dead is not decadent even. An official of Tulare County, 

 also a member of its Fish and Game Club, writes of a visit by 

 him and others as follows: Golden Trout are plentiful in Whitney 

 Creek. My little twelve-year-old boy caught 125 in one day, on the 

 twenty-fourth of August, 1895, with a fly-hook, using no bait." 



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