SAN JOSE AND VICINITY. 33 poti may ecitation, libraries spending thy, and leriment- ollege in was the 170, and used by itertain- le, with tments. ;an pre- r whom besides ans(or rooden •a, is a num- cts of interest and attractive places of resort, within a few (hours’ drive over level valley roads, as San Jose. Among them are The New Almaden Quicksilver Mines, Situated about twelve miles south-east of the city. A stage leaves San Jose daily at about 3 p.m., and returns each morning: fare, one dollar. Dependence upon this conveyance, however, necessitates stopping over at the mines two nights, for the stage arrives so late, and starts into town so early the following morning, that there is but little time for sight seeing, unless one lays over one trip. If you have but one day to devote to this point, the better w r ay is to get an early start from San Jose with a livery convey ance, and you can comfortably be back before sunset. The drive is a delightful one. The first half of the way you wind among the huge sycamores which skirt the Guadalupe. If it be summer, the creek, although further up a running, sparkling trout stream, will here be dry, and afford a nice hard graveled bed for the road. The last six miles is over a macadamized road. All is sufficiently level to make good time over, yet undulating and varied enough in views on either side to make the ride pleasant. When within a mile of your journey’s end, you turn into a pretty gulch or cation, and soon find yourself in the one crooked street of the “ Hacienda,” as this part of the New Almaden estate is commonly called. You are at
