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Show Far Famed Yosemite Valley. placed under the protect-Kino protect-Kino care of federal gov-i gov-i ernment. Future Generations Will Thus Be As eured of Beholding the Wonders of Nature'a Strang Moods. Future generations who will visit tho YoBomlto valloy and marvel at tho wonderful beauty nnd grandeur ot this ganlen spot will bo gratoful to tho fcdoral government, by whoso act In tho year 1900 this spot In tho great state of California was preserved preserv-ed as a perpetual gnvemmont reservation. reser-vation. With tho taking over of tho "mysterious valley," as It used to bo called, now boundary lines havo boon survoyed. nnd within threo months tho hitherto tedious stngo Journoy over tho moiintnlns will havo given placo to tho trolley lino which enters tho valley through u canynu at Ita wcBtoru end, and next spring the tourlstB who visit tho wonderful place will bo nhto to maka the trip comfortably by trolleyr-tho requisite electricity for which will bo furnished by wator power. Tho reservation, ns now officially outlined, la 32 tnlloa In width, from cast to west, and 40 miles long from north to south. Hut tho valley Itself Is only six miles long by hair a mllo In width. It Is sunk just about ono mllo vertically bolow thu gonornl lovol of tho adjacent region, resembling resem-bling a gigantic trough of Irregular Bhapo, hollowed nut In tho mountains. Nearly In tho center of tho state of California, tho Yosomlto b ICC miles from San Francisco, as tho crow flics a llttlo south of cost. In early days tho whites In that part of California had a good deal of troublo with tho Indians, Bottlers balng murdorod occasionally, and vn-rlous vn-rlous outrages committed, It wns learnod that tho savages had somo sort of retreat far up In thu mountainsa moun-tainsa natural stronghold, In which they doemod themselves safe fiom pursuit or attack and, curiosity on tho subject being excited, a military expedition was organized to explnro the region nnd drive out tho Indlnns, Undor tho guidance of an old chief, Tonaya, whoso nanio Is porpotuatcd In a beautiful lake betwoen Mount Hoffmann and Cathodral poak, tbo party finally reached tho valloy, wlioso wonders thoy wero first of civilized civ-ilized human beings to behold. Thoy killed somo of tho Indlann and mado peace. Nevertheless, not long afterward, after-ward, In 18C2, n party ot minors was attacked by redskins In tho valloy, two of them being slain near Bridal Veil meadow. Another expedition followed, moro Indians wero killed, nnd tho rest wero driven out, being compelled to tnko refugo with a trlbo of Monos nn tho east side of tho Sierras. Hut troublo followed: tho fugitives stole horses from tho Monos, Mo-nos, fled to tho Yosemite, woro overtaken, over-taken, and In n battle wero almost entirely en-tirely exterminated. In 18CC tho first pleasuro travel to tho Yosemite -began, and n trnll entering en-tering tho valloy from tho south sldo was opened. Tho first houso wan built lu that year, opposite Yosomlto falls. Tho whole region wan originally orig-inally part of tho public domain belonging be-longing to thu government of tho United States, but tho government .gavo tho valloy tn California, though retaining possession of nu extrnslvo surrounding nrcn, which, together with tho valley, bus boon known for many yenru ns tho Ynsemlto park. Tho word Yosumlto means grizzly bear. In tho valley when tho whites llrst came, thero woro, It Is suld, nlno villages, comprising about COO souls. These pcoplo wuro of tho Ml-wok, Ml-wok, who wero much tho largest nation na-tion In California, their ancient dominion do-minion extending over u conslrerablo portion of thu state- Tho mountain vallejs in thoso days wero thlnkly poopled, nnd along thu rivers, which woro full of iIbIi, numoioiis villages woro scattered. Hut they wort) very prlmltlvo savages, both soxos and all ages going entirely linked. Tholr do-Hceudants do-Hceudants today nro commonly known as Digger, and ovory autumn thoy gnthor, In nnd about this valloy, quantities quan-tities of acorns, which aro their chief food supply, and which they store In curious cvllndrlcal receptacles of basket-work fastened on posts or In tho forks of trees. |