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18.1 2.6 Bishop,* irregular 4-corners, bank on right. Turn left.
GARAGES—Watterson Bros. Garage, Main & Academy Sts.
22.6 4.5 End of road, just beyond creek; turn right.
23.4 0.8 Left-hand road; turn left.
26.1 2.7 Fork; bear right.
27.5 1.4 Left-hand diagonal road; bear left.
33.2 5.7 Fork; bear left with travel.
33.4 0.2 Right-hand diagonal road, just beyond bridge; bear right.
Ascend long winding grade 34.8.
44.2 10.8 Right-hand road; turn right thru fords, shortly entering
Crooked Creek canyon.
Straight ahead before this turn leads to new bridge (under con-
struction), which, when completed, will eliminate fords.
Thru numerous fords 51.8. Curve right thru gate 52.8. Avoid
left-hand diagonal road 54.9. Thru deep ford 55.3.
56.2 12.0 Fork, just beyond gate; bear right. Cross bridge 60.5.
60.6 4.4 Fork; bear right. Pass Casa Diablo Hot Springs on left 61.3.
Left fork at 60.6 leads to Mammoth Camp.
68.0 7.4 Fork; bear left upgrade.
69.7 1.7 Fork; bear right with travel.
75.8 6.1 Fork; keep right.
79.2 3.4 Fork; bear left downgrade.
84.0 4.8 Right-hand road, just beyond bridge; turn right. Pass Farm-
ington’s Ranch on left 85.6.
86.9 2.9 Fork, farmhouse on right; bear left and at 3-corners beyond,
turn left.
Right fork is new road under construction, rejoining this route
at mileage 91.3.
89.3 2.4 Right-hand road, just beyond bridge; turn right downgrade.
Straight ahead before this turn is Route 295 at mileage 33.4 to
Yosemite via Tioga pass.
Avoid right-hand diagonal road 91.1.
117.3
91.3 2.0 End of road at fence corner; turn left downgrade.
New road comes In from right 91.3.
Pass Mono Lake P. O. (Hammond) on left 93.4.
95.2 3.9 Right-hand diagonal road, school ahead; bear right. Thru
wash 98.3.
103.6 8.4 Prominent fork; bear left.
13.7 3-corners, cabin on left; bear right. Bear left across wooden
bridge onto Main St. 122.5.
122.7 5.4 BRIDGEPORT, center of town. Elevation 6,465 feet.
HOTELS— Bridgeport Hotel.
GARAGES— Bridgeport Garage, on Main St., next to Wedert s store.
•Bishop, Cal. (pop. 1,500, alt. 4,347 ft.), is sit- ators there, and then successively the gen-
uated in a fine fruit growing region at the erators at 6,276 feet, 5,156 feet, 4,730 feet and
transmitted upon
foot of the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada 4,460 feet. The power is
aluminum wires carried on towers for 250
mountains about 40 miles north of Independ-
miles southward over hills and plains to the
ence. Not far distant is Bishop creek, a Mojave desert and thence to San Bernardino,
tributary of the Owens river. This creek is is being
Riverside and the Perris valley, and
14 miles long and in this distance falls 5,500
extended through the Coachella Valley, over
feet, or nearly 400 feet to the mile, flowing the Colorado desert into the Imperial valley.
between canyon walls whose average height Near Bishop on the north are geysers and
is 1,000 feet. The water of this creek is used hot springs.
seven different times for electric generating Several companies are operating plants for
stations at different elevations, driving them the treatment of tungsten ore on a scale of
“tandem.” Two reservoirs surrounded by such magnitude and with mines so extensive
almost vertical cliffs nestle at the heads of as to presage the possibility of Bishop be-
canyons. To secure perfect regulation of coming one of the chief tungsten producing
flow and to prevent ice or snow from clog- centers of the U. S. A considerable number
ging or injuring the machinery the water is of silver, lead and zinc mines are likewise
carried in pipes from the reservoirs to the more or less allied with the business inter-
seventh station. The highest of the stations ests of the town.
is situated at an elevation of 8,000 feet, nearly El Camino Sierra, the state highway that
1,000 feet higher than Mount Washington, commands the passes of the Sierras and is
the highest mountain of the eastern states. part of the proposed National Defense high-
After generating power at 8,000 feet, the way system for the Pacific coast, passes thru
water drops to 7,112 feet, turning the gener-