Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — A Riral of the Yosemite. [ARTICLE]

A Riral of the Yosemite.

In the Sierra wilderness far to the southward of the famous Yosemite Valley, there is a yet grander valley of the same kind. It is situated on the South Fork of King’s River, above the most extensive groves and forests of the giant sequoia, and beneath the shadows of the highest mountains in the range, where the canyons are deepest and the snow-laden peaks are crowded most closely together. It is called the Big King’s River Canyon, or King's River Yosemite, and is reached by way of Visalia, the nearest point on the Southern Pacific Railroad, from which the distance is I about forty-five miles, or by the Kear-1 surge Pass from the east side of. the range. It is about ten miles long, half a mile wide, and the stupendous rocks of purplish gray granite that forms the walls are from 2,500 to 5,000 feet in height, while the depth of the valley below the general surface of the mountain ma£s 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 imbedded in grander mountains than the wellknown Yosemite of the Merced; Their general characters, however, are wonderfully alike, and they bear the same relationship to the fountains of the ancient glaciers above them.—Century.