Yet it must not be thought that the town was wholly given over to roughness.

Helen Hunt Jackson, a widely traveled and observant woman of finest susceptibilities, says of the Lake Tahoe House, which she visited in stage-coach days, that it was "one of the very best in all California." It was the stopping-place of the _elite_ who came to see and enjoy Tahoe, and until later and more fashionable hotels were built around the Lake enjoyed great popularity.
As soon as the logging industry declined Tahoe City began to go down, and only the fishing and tourist interests kept it alive.
When the railway was moved over from Glenbrook and the shops and yard of the Transportation Company were established here it regained some of its former activity and life, and is now the chief business center on the Lake.

It is the headquarters of the campers who come for pleasure each year, and its store does a very large and thriving business.

New cottages are being erected and it is destined ere long to be a stirring pleasure resort town, for, as the delights of Tahoe become more widely known, every available piece of land will increase in value and where there is now one summer home there will be a hundred.
_Glenbrook_.

On the Nevada side of the Lake, Glenbrook used to be one of the most active, busy, bustling towns in the west.