“Anderson Trail” (Happy Isles to bridge below Vernal Fall) built. Calif. Legis., pp. 311, 367; YVC, 1880-82, p. 5. Construction of Tioga Road started. (Completed in 1883 at cost of $62,000). Calif. State Mineralogist; U. S. Senate. Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Mining Company (Tioga Mine) incorporated. Calif. State Mineralogist. John Conway built road to Glacier Point. Conway. 1883 President Hayes with party of twelve visited Yosemite Valley. 1884 Tioga Mine closed after expenditure of $300,000 and no production. Calif. State Mineralogist. Mr. and Mrs. John Degnan established bakery and store, the oldest business among Yosemite concessions. USNPS, 1941, p. 9; Degnan, p. 1. Hutchings removed as guardian, and W. E. Dennison appointed. YVC, 1883-84, p. 14. 1885 Legislature appropriated $40,000 to build Stoneman House. YVC, 1885-86, p. 6. John B. Lembert took up homestead in Tuolumne Meadows. Stornoway, p. 64; Farquhar, 1925, pp. 40-41; YNP, 1903, p. 23. “Echo Wall Trail” (Nevada Fall to Glacier Point) built. YVC, 1885-86, p. 9. Log Cabin built in Mariposa Grove. YVC, 1885-86, p. 10. 1886 John L. Murphy preëmpted 160 acres at Tenaya Lake. YNP, 1903, p. 23. 1887 Mark L. McCord made guardian. YVC, 1887-88. A tramway to Glacier Point considered and surveyed. Calif. Legis., p. 341. 1888 Stoneman House leased to J. J. Cook. YVC, 1887-88, p. 14; Calif. Legis., pp. 263, 336; Stornoway, p. 24. Commissioners removed Black’s and Leidig’s hotels. Calif. Legis., p. 210; YVC, 1887-88, p. 17. 1889 Galen Clark again made guardian. YVC, 1889-90, p. 5. Mirror Lake dam built to increase area of lake. YVC, 1889-90, p. 5. 1890 Yosemite National Park created, Oct. 1. John Muir’s writings were important in bringing this about. YVC, 1889-90, p. 27. 1891 Capt. A. E. Wood, first Acting Superintendent, arrived with federal troops to administer park, May 19; headquarters at Wawona. YNP, 1891, p. 3; YNHA, 1944, p. 54. First telephones installed in Yosemite Valley. YVC, 1891-92, p. 6. 1892 Sierra Club organized, with John Muir as president, to aid effort to secure federal administration of entire Yosemite region. SCB, 1893. First plant of trout (rainbow) made in Yosemite by California Fish and Game Commission. YNP, 1893, p. 8; YNHA, 1934, p. 58. 1893 Sierra Forest Reservation established, Feb. SCB, 1896, pp. 257-259. 1894 Capt. G. H. G. Gale made Acting Superintendent. YNP, 1894.