Connecticut western news., 1891-09-03
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. THE WONDERS OF THE SAN
 GABRIEL CANON.


 LUE,LA D. SMITH.
 The cottage is very comfortable. A little fire takes away the slight chill of wintar's evening on these heights, sbont 450O feet above the level of the sea An excellent spring is near at hand. The birds come around the house fear lessly, glad to see the strange beings who scatter crumbs. The chirping of the crickets is heard within. At night the bright stars shine, the moon glides over the mountain side-the infinite silence of the sky broods over the silence of the hills.
 There is legend of these hills. In olden times the Indians found the white silver here They brought it to their mis- sionary priest. They made with it the holy candle sticks, the sacred cups, the blessed altars of the Mission church of San Gabriel When the priest vas dy- ing, he called the Indians around him and charged them as they wished for his dying blessing; as they hoped to gain the "Hsppy Hunting-grounds; as they revered Gitchie Msnitou, the Mighty; never to reveal the place of silver of the. hills. They promised, and they kept thelr word. The hills too have kept their silence long and guarded their treasure we'll.
 A vein that Carries silver has been traced four miles through these hills, It extends North and South with a dip of 45e toward the East. It fills a fss- ure cutting at right angles across the strati6cation of the country which is east and west Four tunnels have been started to strike the vein and work along its course at different levels. The two lower tunnels are on the eastern side; the two higher begin on the wes- tern side of the mountain ridge that extend southward through the com pays claims to the San Gabriel River.
 In the lowest tunnel, four foot de- posit of good paying ore has just been struck. In the two higher tunnels 2 very rich deposit of ore along the. vein has been found. It has been followed along the surface three hundred feet and to depth of hundred and twenty five feet. It varies in thickness from 8 few inches to several feet. In tunnel No 3 the richness is especially apparent. Here we see sulphide of silver, native silver and mineral filled with silver wires showing their glesming, twisted points ct the breaks In the highest tunnel there is sn interesting geological study; for here the vein has been brok- en and bent from its original direction. The turn in the vein like bonded arm, may te clearly trsced, a also it's return to the southerly direction.
 The foreman expects to strike the rich deposit in all the tunnels and then to send all the rich ore by chute out at the lowest tunnel; wisely deeming it easier to let ore fall through chute than to raise it to higher levels.
 year or two ago, twelve hundred pounds taken from dump of lower grade ore at this mine. and shipped to San Francisco, brought net returns of thirteen hundred dollars.
 Coming down the pleasant trail it Is hard to realize that bears are found not far away. Recently it is said,s man had . hand fo- hand encounter with one, and conquered Bruin with his fists. Others have been killed, although the bears only make attacks when driven by hunger or in self defense.
 h the San Gabriel canon about half 8 mll. from the miiI.site of the San Gabriel Mill and Mining company; is Islip's fruit and bee ranch, which pro- from imported slips, the finest fruit in Southern California. A few rods above is Sharp's ranch. where tLe owner lives alone. Five miles above I,lip's ranch Is the c. Potter ranch on the North Fork. Mir Potter makes his living from his cattle ranch and by carrying provisions and tourists through the canon. Last year the great grizzly bear captured most of his cattle.
 There is ou the North Fork peach orchard If two thnusand trees. From these trees, 65OO pounds of dri,,, peach es were sent down the canon m 1890.
 On the South Fork there is fruit and bee ranch... The owner ships from seven to thirteen tons of honey yearly receiving more than a hundred dollars per ton. In his large family are grown up children who have never been out side the canon. The little worll shut in by hills and sky has always separated thtan from the bustling life outside. daughter recently married, went to Asnza on her wedding tour. seeing il then for the first time f4
 There are several good goli mines near the Sonth Fork. Among them are those of Mir Henry Roberts aud of the Sar Gabriel Gold Mining company Be yond the thirty miles of canon, rises the snow capped peak of Old Baldy, of the Sierra Madre Range Beyond stretches the great Mojave Desert. with its prick ly pear. To the prophets vision ap pears the time when this desert als( shall be b~antiful with fruitage and with flowers; for "rhe Desert shall re joic. and blossom as the Rnse''
 GOOD LOOKS.
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