WAWONA 



Is a favorite resort for hunting and fishing, and as well for lovers 

 of beautiful mountain scenery and an atmosphere that is balm to most 

 of the ills of life. It is to be pleasantly reached by coaches famous, 

 roomy, observation ones, with four to six well-trained equinesat the front 

 from Southern Pacific Company's Yosemite branch line at Raymond. 

 This latter station is the rail terminus and 201 miles from San Francisco. 

 Wawona is the over-night stopping-place for passengers en route to 

 or from Yosemite via the Big Trees. The ample hotel and tributary 



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cottages are well kept, and desirable quarters for a few days or for many 

 of them. It stands on the bank of the south fork of the Merced, a large 

 affluent of that stream, and is surrounded by a fine forest of pines. 

 These are in great variety among them the white, yellow and sugar 

 pine, and about two miles distant on an elevated plateau the famous 

 Big Tree Reservation, its conservation and management connected with 

 Yosemite Valley. This grove is a wonderful remnant of a primeval sequoia 



