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Sierra Club Bulletin. 



GOVERNMENT ROADS. 



The El Portal- Yosemite Village road is the main highway into 

 the park, and travel over it was made fairly comfortable this 

 season by the installation of a water-sprinkling system. This 

 system has not been quite faultless, due to an insufficient number 

 of water stations, but the defect is recognized and the remedy 

 found, and it will be applied early next season. 



TRAILS. 



All the important trails exterior to the Yosemite Valley have 

 been repaired and those from Tamarack Flat to Aspen Valley 

 and from the Hetch Hetchy Valley to Lake Eleanor have been 

 materially shortened and improved. A large number of guide 

 signs on many of these trails were put up. 



An allotment was made for the construction of a new trail 

 from above Mirror Lake to Lake Tenaya, and the trail has been 

 completed nearly to the top of the cliff in Tenaya Canyon, all the 

 most difficult work having been finished. 



It will not be practicable to finish this trail this fall, but the 

 unfinished portion will be easy and admit of rapid progress, so 

 that it will be open for travel early next season and will provide 

 a most attractive trip. 



All the old trails leading up from the floor of the valley to the 

 rim, about twenty-four miles total, are subjected every year to 

 heavy travel and the wear and tear on them is great. They were 

 all kept in good condition, but it required constant labor. 



HOTELS AND CAMPS. 



There is only one hotel in the Yosemite Valley, and it was 

 built years ago for summer use only, possesses few conveniences, 

 and does not even admit of being remodeled to advantage. 



A new hotel in a different locality is an urgent need of the 

 park. Mr. Frank A. Miller, whose application for the privilege 

 of building a new hotel in the valley was approved several years 

 ago, seems to have abandoned the enterprise. 



RECO M MEND ATION S . 



It is recommended: i. That the water system and power 

 plant be enlarged and increased; 2. That ample hotel accommo- 

 dations be provided; 3. That all patented lands in the park be 

 condemned and purchased by the Government; 4. That an ap- 

 propriation be obtained for the construction of a road from Fort 

 Monroe to Glacier Point along the south rim of the valley (when 

 built it will be for its length one of the most remarkable moun- 

 tain scenic roads in the world; the survey, location, and all other 



