... that a company these backwoodsmen last came upon the valley of which lam about to speak, and which had proved so effectual * - cache for the '* stealings'' of the Indians. The Yosemite (Bear) Valley is situated in the beautiful range of the Sierra Nevada ...

... GLEANINGS. MAMMOTH FOREST. From the California Farmer we learn that a grove of mammoth trees has been discovered in Yosemite Valley. The first tree that was measured was eighty feet circumference, three feet and a half from the ground another tree was ...