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  1. Trexler, 13.
  2. "Yosemite Valley--Interesting Proceedings of the Commission," Mariposa Gazette, 18 June 1881, 2.
  3. Greene, I:256-57; Hubbard, 89-90. According to Hubbard, the vein of are is only 50' farther in from the end of the bore.
  4. "Tioga Pass," 8.
  5. Trexler, 8.
  6. Greene, I:258.
  7. Quoted in Trexler, 7.
  8. Ibid., 8.
  9. Tioga Pass, the highest point crossed by a highway in California, is at 9,945' elevation.
  10. Mount Conness is 12,590' high; no trail now exists to its base.
  11. S. B. M. Young, Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yosemite National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1896 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896), 8-9.
  12. Capt. Alex Rodgers, Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yosemite National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1897 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1897), 5-6.
  13. Ibid., 6.
  14. J. W. Zevely, "Report of the Acting Superintendents of the Yosemite National Park" in Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1898. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), 1056.
  15. Marsden Manson and W. L. Ashe to J. W. Zevely, reprinted as Exhibit B in Report of the secretary of the Interior, 1898, p. 1058; Biennial Report of the Department of Highways of the State of California, 1898 (Sacramento, CA: A. J. Johnston, Supervisor State Printing, 1899), 31-32; "Tioga Pass," 8.
  16. Capt. Joseph E. Caine, "Report of the Acting Superintendents of the Yosemite National Park" in Report of the secretary of the Interior, 1898 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899), 1061-62.
  17. Bainbridge, 95; Biennial Report of the Department of Highways of the State of California, 1904 (W. W. Shannon, Supervisor State Printing, 1905), 17; "Tioga Pass," 8.
  18. H. C. Benson, Major, 14th Cavalry, Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yosemite National Park to the Secretary of the Interior, 1905 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905), 15; Trexler, 8.
  19. Report of the Commission on Roads, 3.