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 FRESNO, TULARE, INTO AND KERN 225 Millwood by the Sanger stage, and lies on the way to the Canyon. Here is an amazing sequoia com- puted to be 400 feet tall. An automobile can be driven through the gutted trunk of a sovereign tree that lies prostrate. Stumps serve as founda- tions for cabins, shops, dancing pavilions and bowling alleys. Near the entrance, tent sites are allotted to campers on the borders of a lake. Beyond the Park, the road passes through Hume, the terminus of the Lemon Cove stage, and from Hume to Cedar Grove Hotel in the canyon. Six miles further on is Kanawyer's Camp, headquar- ters for canyon excursions. There is another route to Kings River which is less direct for travellers from Fresno and the north, but more convenient for those who come from the south. At Visalia (about 30 miles below Fresno and a few miles off the main lines of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe) there is connec- tion by electric road with Lemon Cove, less than an hour's ride east and 50 miles from the canyon. Lemon Cove may also be reached from Fresno (on the north) or Famoso (on the south) by a branch line to Exeter. A stage leaves Lemon Cove early in the morning for Camp Juanita (18 m.) where the night is passed. To the east of the road is Sequoia Na- tional Park in the upper part of which is the fa-