Identifier: appendixtojourna19052cali (find matches)
Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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be reduced to a minimum, and a hundred barrels of oilwere used upon the stretches of road previously prepared for the receptionof the oil, under the direction of Mr. Ellery, as above stated. The resultof the experiment has been a most bitter disappointment. The roadwaywould not pack; the surface being composed of decomposed granite, theoil sifted through it, pretty nearly much in the same manner as waterdoes. The oil sinking into this granitic sand simply left a covering ofloose sand saturated with oil, which bespattered the clothes of travelersand made the conditions even worse than they were before. The reportof Mr. Ellery, made after an examination of the roads subsequent to the use of oil, is annexed hereto. Apparently, the only solution of the difficulty is to abandon the ideaof using the present surface of the road and build up a road of someother substance, packing the same by the use of either oil or water.The cost of such work will be extremely large in the first instance, but
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YOSEMITE FALI> 6 REPORT OF YOSEMITE VALLEY COMMISSIONERS. as good roads are of such imperative necessity for a pleasurable visitto, and comfortable enjoyment of, Yosemite Valley, the resulting satis-faction fully warrants the outlay. NEW HOTEL. Again does the Commission call attention to the one improvementmost urgently needed in Yosemite Valley, and that is a new hotel. Inour last biennial report we stated the reasons why, in our opinion, anew hotel is not only a much needed improvement, but also a goodfinancial investment for the State of California. In our last biennial report we said: Under existing laws it is prac-tically impossible to arrange with private capital for the constructionof necessary hotels or other improvements in Yosemite, and obviouslythe broader and better policy is that the State should appropriate themoney and receive the revenues and continue in full control of theValley for the benefit of the public; but if adequate appropriations cannot be had and decent

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