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1,700 feet, requiring, with flattened grade at some rough points, 

 six miles of road to bring the line within one mile of Boulder 

 Creek. Thence up the river along the talus earth and rock of the 

 south side on the grade of the stream, which is one hundred 

 feet per mile, about eight miles to the open valley, or beginning 

 of the floor. 



"Allowing for curvature, the road should be about seven miles 

 from the park ridge to the Ten-Mile Creek; with the additional 

 mile from park to the top of divide, making eight miles to the 

 point where the McKa}^ survey diverts. From here to the river 

 proper is another seven miles, and along the river to the open 

 valley eight miles. In all, the total distance from the park-line 

 to the west end of the floor of the valley proper is twenty-three 

 ©r twenty-four miles, 



" This route best complies with the conditions named above 

 as prime requisites for the location. Not only will it give an 

 excellent grade from the park to the canon, but it will form a 

 central line from which roads or trails may be built to points 

 of interest. The Tehipite Canon may be readily reached by trail. 

 The big trees in the small cations to the south will be of easy 

 access, and the great rocks and cliffs of the canon along the road- 

 line will be no small item of interest. In fact, such a road will 

 open a part of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of exceeding and 

 unusual beauty. To within about five miles of the river on 

 this route the line would run through timber, after which brush 

 will be encountered until the river is reached, when along the 

 river brush and timber intermingle." 



"As all preliminary business incident to the beginning of work 

 had been completed, a surveying party was placed in the field, 

 the first camp being pitched at Huckleberry Meadow near the 

 General Grant National Park. The park being one of the 

 statutory termini of the route, work was commenced July 4, 1906, 

 at the northeast park gate in extension of a good park road. 

 . . . Camp was changed once to Ten-Mile Creek, and the sur- 

 vey in that time extended from the northeast gate of the General 

 Grant National Park, on a very easy rising grade, to the summit 

 of the divide near the head of Indian Basin. At this point, 

 about two miles from the starting-point, the divide was crossed 

 in a sag and the survey continued along the north slope of a 

 ridge extending toward Ten-Mile Creek until by a gradual 

 descent Ten-Mile Creek was crossed at nine and one-quarter 

 miles. A very large proportion of the route is over earth, with 

 perhaps in the foregoing distance one and one-half miles of solid 

 rock or boulders, which does not present any difficulties of con- 

 struction. After crossing Ten-Mile Creek the line was run 

 around by and crossed Tornado Creek, whence it continued 

 toward the cafion of the South Fork of the King's River. Upon 

 my arrival in camp, September 7, 1906, two miles of survey had 

 been made beyond Ten-Mile Crossing, thus making an excessive 

 walk for the help. Consequently, the following Sunday, Septem- 

 ber 9, 1906, camp was removed to Redwood Creek, and I as- 

 sumed personal charge of the work. We continued the work 

 with the crew reduced by four men, to the ridge known as 

 Horseshoe Bend, where, at the distance of twenty and one-quar- 

 ter miles, near Windy Cliffs, work was suspended, on account 



