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 SACRAMENTO, SHASTA, LAKE TAHOE 175 The steamer continues on its 72-mile course via Al Tahoe, through Nevada waters to Glenbrook (Carson City is two hours away, by stage), north- ward under the shadow of sloping heights to Brockway Hot Springs and Carnelian Bay, and thus to its home port. Situation and scenery aside, Tahoe deserves its fame for its fish alone. Immense trout, " cut- throats," not " rainbows," linger in deep pools on the lake bottom. Smaller, tastier brothers are caught in the Truckee River, the hampers usually being filled quickest at the end near Tahoe City. The California trout season opens June first, the Nevada season a month earlier. One can under- stand, therefore, the popularity of Glenbrook in May. Besides countless trips to near-by lakes, excursions are made by Tahoe visitors to Independence Lake (14 m. from Truckee) and to Webber Lake about the same distance further on. The latter is reached by stage from Truckee to Corey's (28 m.) and by another stage from Corey's to the lake (10 m.). A dozen other trout lakes are in the vicinity and at nearly all of them there is living accom- modation. The stage road Truckee - Sierraville - Loyalton runs in the same direction as the branch of the Western Pacific (Boca-Hawley) which bridges the distance between its main line and the Southern Pacific Ogden route. The name Hawley has been given to the station formerly known as Beckwith. East of Hawley, the Nevada, Cali- fornia and Oregon, a narrow gauge road, turns north to Honey Lake, and pierces a primitive stretch of land as far