Show THE valley VALLET OF THE YO california CALir oRNIA oania AND ITS stupendous DOUS waterfalls the alari alati posa gazette has bas published a communication from a mr J al hutchings who wiio visited this valley I 1 in n c compan 0 lemen pany yitti v ith Aless rs ayras abras and millard two g gentlemen en t belon belonging cing Zing to san francisco and mr air starr of coulterville Coult Goult erville assuming that these gentlemen are known to the editors of the tha mariposa gazette and that the he account is therefore reliable we cannot but begird with wonder and admiration mi ration the scenery described the party a appears P to lave started from an ludian indian vill village age ago 0 on 11 the fresno with two audun indian guides guide a and the writer sab BAB from mr sir hunts a store lore tore we kept an east esst ot of north course up the alvide divide between he the fresno and chow chedah valles thence descending towards the south fork of the merced river riven and winding around a very rocky point we climbed nearly to the tile ridge rida of the middle or main fork ol 01 the merced and descending towards tl ti ayo eyo sem vy valley came caroe upon a high point of trees whence we had our first view of this singular and roma romantic n tic valley and as the scene opened in full view before us we were almost almust speechless echles with admiration at its wild and sublime grandeur on the north side stands a bold perpendicular mountain of or granite shaped like an all immense tower its lofty top is covered with itil fill great pines in the distance seem but shrubs our in dun guide gulde this the captain it measures from the valley vailey to its summit about two thousand eigil eight hundred feet just opposite this on lle ile lie the south side of if the velley our attention atten fion lion was attracted hy by a magnificent waterfall about seven hundred feet in height it looked like a long lorg bro td feather of silver depending over a precipice and 9 as us this feat feathery heiy tail full of leaping spray thus hung a slight plight breeze moved it from side to side andas the list lot rays ra s of the setting selling sun were rainbow hues the tiie red would mix with the tile purple and the purple the green and the green with tile the silvery sivery sheen of its whitened foam as it danced in space passing further up the valley vailey we were struck with the tile awful grandeur of the immense moun asins on oil elther either side some per ular aar and some bome a little sloping one looks like a lighthouse another like a giant capital of immense dimensions all ail a rire are ir and surmounted hy by pines we crossed the tile river and stil sivi advancing up the valley turned a poin point tand and before un us was au an sight a water waterfall waterfill fill bill two thousand two hundred feet in height the highest in the tile world it rushes over the cliffa and with one bold leap falls one thousand two hundred feet then a second of five hundred hundri d feet then a third of over five fire hundred feet the three leaps kaps making two thousand two hundred feet standing slin Stin ding upon the opposite side of the valley talley and looking at the tall pines below the great height heig helg litof of these thes falls can at a glance be comprehended about ten miles from the lower end of the hie valley there is another fall of not less than fifteen hundred feet this with smaller falls and alake mark the head of the yo lemity valley vailey which is therefore about ten mil roil mils s in length and from a half to one mile in width although there is fit good land enough for several farms it cannot le be considered upon the whole as a n good farming valley but speckled trout grouse and j igeon are plentiful fex ex |