Show i SCENIC PLAYGROUNDS i OF AMERICA Al 1 II By G M 1 KILBOURN OURN An American Switzerland AT T IlI dam darn Inose In rose ose lose r 11 mitt miti- National ark California Is 19 stationed probably the tile only ranger t In the national l park system v ho needs to know kno Waterworks hydro hydra hydroelectric electric and earthen ment statistics us fiS a part of his bis nature nature- nature guiding guiding duties For Hotch lake In addition to being part of ot tilt thi p II pirk 1 irk rJ and a nag part of It is also a portion or of orthe the it water and pu cr system ot of ofSan oan San t rand rand-co rane 0 and the th road which brings most mohl mo t of ot the tors ends end abruptly at the lie big hug darn dam built a II few v years ears back bac to create the these these se sewn seen en mill mile In ml I P o Questions therefore apply to the construction project ns as asWell Well eil as to the upland surrounding it ears ears ago John Muir and others found Retch salley northy n a worthy orthy rhal of the main Yosemite v s whose hose granite walls wails and long filmy w ills are world orld famous And submersion of the Hetch floor while hile of ot course bur burying burning Ing the trails and bringIng traffic to a n halt has hir only In increased increased creased the grandeur of the site by adding the charm of a lul to the sternness and dignity of or the foot walls ails Rigid protection of the water ater source of course limits the 11 a Ity of the lake for sightseeing n pur purposes purposes purposes poses but if it a n scenic launch sen Ice Is er e made 1 available on Vetch lIetch Hetch there 11 Ii be e n R boat bOlt ride worth orth crossing the continent to take And for the present the view from the dam alone is one that s hard to lea leaThe lease lea e The lal ml c e also o acts as ag an al ally alii of trail 10 o and fisherman as against the slIm sl mm it and run wanderers who ho help to s swell sell ell the parI- parI parks parIs s annual I count to lie newly uly half a million or nearly t twice tIce Ice that of any nn an other national i ph ground Almost a third thild d of oC the park UPS lips II S 'S north of Hetch and of the Tuolumne pronounced 01 rh riser ri er of which it is formed forme ri is northern upland has been a n favorite te orte camping and hiking ground of oftie c tie tte club of the state for many rears but is still little no I known n to the public at large II Ho 0 e lr It is a 1 wilderness of wonderful charm and d sen es to harbor a thousand camps as the official park bulletin e Lakes Lal and streams of ot these north northern northern northern ern cannons cam ons were ere stocked ed years ago with rainbow and eastern brook trout Construction of the waterworks ater prof project project too easy easi access bys by s 1 r v 71 3 h A iS v f i S St J 1 Y ar A t k 6 r tab Hetch y Lake fisherman and now the region hag ha reached readied the come and get us stage where the angler who ho t ikea ike the trouble to Jet iet et there may find In a fi fisherman s hea hea en en as well ell as II a scenic paradise The upper portion of the Tuolumne Salley alley at the far eastern edge of the park Is not only a favorite l camping and climbing region but la is also reached bv by automobile b bi the highly scenic Tio a road This road climbs out of the main allej Salley nile at its western estern end p pisses the Tuolumne e to the grow gro of sequoia trees crosses burnished granite domes of the eastern uplands upland and winds do down don n from TIoga pass to Mono Iono lake lale and the theNe boundary through a n steep and forbidding but highly scenic canyon can on The TIo Tioga a road rOld was built in 1881 1551 by Chinese labor to a gold mine east elst of the park the mine went ent broke e but national park tourists are arc still riding on time the road cm 1930 Western Newspaper N w Der Union n 1 |