CHAPTER VIII STOCKTON OAKDALE JAMESTOWN ANGELS CALAVERAS BIG TREE GROVE SAN FRANCISCO - STOCKTON, via Santa Fe, Southern Pa- cific and Western Pacific. Time, 3% to 3% hours. Distance by Santa Fe, 78 miles; by Southern Pacific and Western Pacific about 90 miles. Via steamer on San Joaquin River (see under Local Steamers, Chapter I). Via motor road. Creek Route Ferry to Oakland. Oak- land via Foothill Boulevard to Haywards Livermore - Tracy - Stockton. Distance, 80 miles. All of these routes pass through a territory beautified by prosperous orchards and highly productive grain and vegetable fields. SAN FRANCISCO - CALAVERAS TREES, via Stockton, Oak- dale (Sierra Railway) and Jamestown. Through morning cars on both the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific. Time about 8% hrs. Passengers change at Jamestown for Angels, Murphys and Calaveras Trees. Stockton. " A VIEW of Stockton," relates a famous traveller in 1849, " was something to be remembered. There, in the heart of California, where the last winter stood a solitary ranche in the midst of tule marshes, I found a canvas town of a thousand in- 179
