| Show A rival of the in the vast sierra wilderness far to the of the famous yosemite valley there is a yet grander valley of the game kind it is situated on the south fork of kings river above the most extensive groves and forests of the giant sequoia and beneath the shadows or the highest mountains in the range where the canyons me deepest and the snow laden peaks are crowded most closely together it is called the big kingsl river canyon or kings river yosemite and is reached by way of visalia the nearest point on the southern pacific railroad from which the distance is about forty five miles or by the kear earge pass from the east side of tha range it is about ten mile half a mile wide and the of purplish gray granito that form the walls are from 2500 to feet in height while the depth of the below general surface of the mountain masa from which it has been carved is considerably more than a mile thus it appears that this new yosemite is longer and deeper and lies embedded imbedded im in grander mountains than the well known tte of the merced their general char ackers however are wonderfully aidie and they bear the same relationship to the fountains of the ancient glaciers above them john mair in century |
