Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-23

paign in the Rocky mountains, and
closed with the description OF the ascent
of Pixies Peak on foot.
He told of the comparative ages and
development of the great continental
mountain ranges, and spoke of Colorado
as especially illustrative of the develop
ment of the successive geology ages,
dwelling also at some length on the
geological characteristics of Colorado.
The scenery, climate and special feat
ures of the Rocky mountain state were
described at some length, and an anus
ing picture of the various members of
the party was also added.
A touching incident of Helen Hunt
Jackson was introduced. Her last rest
ing place was at Cheyenne mountain,
but the place had been so desecrated by
jewellers who came there on excursions,
that her friends caused her remains to
be removed to another place in Color
ado.
The speaker called Boulder canon the
most beautiful of it's kind, and the Grand
caflon OF the Arkansas as one of the
grandest of it's kind, with the exception
Of the Grand cafion of the Colorado.
The difficulties of the climb were next
described. The effects of the rarified
atmosphere above the timber line,
II 900 feet high, leaving 5000 more feet
of barren rock to Chamber over, consti-
tuted, the speaker said, one of the hard
things to be overcome. The ascent to the
timber line was rough in places and.
large plateaus were encountered. The
illimitable pine forests at the timber
line were described, where the bodies of
the giant fir trees had SO degenerated
that the roots and branches remained
to combat Eolus when it blew at the
rate of 120 miles an hour at times. He
spoke of the flowers that grew by the
snow banks, as mere specks of beauty
and fragrance. There were numerous
evidences in the moraines of glacial ac-
tion, the snow banks being the last
remnants of thesglacal period. The top
of Pixies Peak consists of seventy-five
acres OF broken granite, where are snow
banks that never melt, and where occur
electrical and thunder storms, and
where is situated the United States sig
nal station. From the summit the
view is grand; to the east the eve could
reach hundred miles; sweeping away
to the south and west are numberless
mountain ranges, while to the north
fully 300 miles OF mountain ranges lie.
The speaker related some scientific
facts connected with the coast range,
and took an imaginative view of the
previous scondition of California before
the coast range came into existence, and
after another range farther west than
them should appear from the bottom of
the Pacific.
"Who could tell" he said, "when
California was sleeping under the bed of
the sea, and was the sporting ground
for whales, but that the monsters of the
deep held their assemblies at Long
Beach, and what great fish stories their
lecturers must have given Them"
Quoting a scientist the speaker said
that first were had the Alleghanies, then
With an upheaving of the sea came the
Rockys, then the Sierras, then the
coast range, and who can say but that
some time another range will appear
putting California as far inland as Kan
sas is now, and what would be the ef-
feet upon the real estate in Los Angeles.
THE ROUND TABLE.
DIR. Weller, as usual, conducted the
round table exercises at o'clock. The
discovery Of America wss finished, and
today's work will probably consist of
the explorations following Columbus Is
discovery.
The banquet and reunion committee
reported, but it was continued until to-
day, when fuller report will be handed
in and final action looking to reunion
will be taken.
The prizes for the historical tourna-
ment are two in number, the first being
a complete set of Chautauqua works for
the ensuing year and the magazine, the
Chautauquan, the second being the
Chautauquan only.
The Evening Session.
The attendance in the evening was
large. Prof. Hugo Mansfeldt rendered
the following programme:
a. Necturne-B fat minor, r,.......,....,.C Chopin
b. Fairy story. Raft
c. Tanphauser march. List
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