Sierra Club Bulletin 



Class C is general ; dry and wet meadows, talus covered with 

 earth, solid rock under lo per cent, that requires only- 

 roughening, gravel and dirt slopes that do not re- 

 quire blasting, scattered boulder strewn flats and 

 benches. 



Type 



Miles 



Total Cost 



Cost 

 per Mile 



A 



.19 

 .41 

 7.3 



1556.80 

 310.73 

 2333-14 



7784 

 758 

 320 



B 



C 





Total 



7-9 



4200 . 67 



532 







Part of two 



709.08 





Total cost 





4909.7s 











The following costs were prorated in the above : 

 Transportation, including wages of packer hire, of horses. 



loss of one animal, and feed $ 965.00 



Subsistence, including wages of cook 1237.19 



Moving in and out, and moving camp 443-74 



Total $2645.93 



The cost record shows $237.80 more charged against it than the 

 expenditures. This is accounted for by: 



Powder used, left over from last year $137.80 



Grub used, left over from last year 100.00 



$237.80 



A few outstanding bills have not as yet been received, but they 

 are figured into the cost record. 



We have on hand practically enough equipment for next year. 

 Powder on hand, 500 lbs. Will need 300 lbs. 20 per cent stumping 

 for next year. 



The greatest difficulty was experienced at Barrier Rock, some 

 few miles below Muir Pass, on the Kings River side. This reef 

 rises abruptly from the stream bed on both sides, and it was nec- 

 essary to blast almost a half tunnel in order to get through it. Mr. 

 McClure will, however, understand this, as he viewed this place 

 on our trip last year. 



This year was a difficult labor season, for even under normal 

 conditions it is hard to keep men at these high altitudes. 



FUTURE PLANS 



I want to strongly recommend the use of all present and future 

 appropriations on the Sierra Section, from Muir Pass north until 

 completed. I base this recommendation on the fact that we are 

 now fairly well organized, and have the equipment on the ground 

 to continue, and it seems to me to be poor economy to divert 

 small or large sums to start work on other portions that are per- 

 haps in better shape to handle temporary travel than we are. The 

 section from Palisade south can wait till the last, as travel can go 

 down Kings to Simpson Meadow, and over to the South Fork by 

 fairly good trails, while north the route is in bad shape. 



