Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-05-06
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The Names OF Some Celebrated;
Race HORSES Defined.
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1t is odd that the names Of the three
most celebrated horses in the world to-
day are misprononnced as a general
thing. Those three are Palo Alto.
Sunol and Arion. Column after column
has been written about them ever since
last fall, but it is probable that of. the
writer's themselves not one in ten
lspows; how the names of the great trio
SHOULD be pronounced a And it is equaf-
ly probable that not one in ten knows
what significance the names carry with
them. z,e. -,1~s- s-ys .,. =. ( s,sls..
1t may shock the horse world. ,horri-
bly,, says the. Stockton Cali Mail, to
learn that the great two-yea--old stall
lions name, when correctly pronounced,
sounds almost as Irish as the name of
the constellation Orion. The latter.is
pronounced as II it were spelled Organ.
The, maine Arion is pronounced the
same as Orion, save! that, the initial
sound is that of A instead of @. Fhe
'ctus is on the 'second syliabley and the
a has thef long sound, as in the word
"wine." Most people in speaking of
orion put the ictus on the A and give it
the long sound .'H az .... 81.
The two words Palo Alto are Spanish
end should he, pronounced as such.
Che should have the broad sound, as
the in father" and the final letter O,
should have the long sound as O in
=, tone The ictus should be on the
FIRST syllable. Properly pronounced the
words are Pablo khl-to. They mean
"tal1 tree" The word palo means liter
ABLY stick, bat it is also used to dcsig-
nate any tree having n tad. straight
trunk. The PalO Alto stables got their
name from the place where bhey. were
located. and that place was named Palo
Aito because there was an exceptional
iy tall and straight tree growing on It.
The early Catiforninns were accustomed
to name their ranches in accordance
with Some circumstances often trivial in
itself. For. instance. EI Rancho dc Les
HoSos WIS so named because of the
emmy water holes on it, the word Ca
welD hcin" rSed 70 designate such
hole: FL R1ncho Pcscadero. because q
fisherman lived on il. pescadero. mean
/. nag; "fsherfnrp:" II Rancho del Cappo
de Los FrnnbcScs. because some French
men bad established camp on it; Yer
ha Eucnn (thc cid name for San Fran
CISCO because Of the fact that the herb
fnown as Yerba rbuena, (good hcrb)
grow plcntifully ut that place. In like
manner the place Palo Alto most likely
derived its name, .-.s.t; =,
Tho mime Sunol is also Spanish, and
"hoHld be pronounced with the ictus on,
She last syllable, and by giving the let
term the sound of ny. The word is pro-,
nonnced as il it We're written soon-yole,
the double-o in "soon'5 having the
sound of double-o in "foot"-not the
broad sound of doublc-o in moon"
7Sunol is Spanish. proper name which
was well known to THE early Californi.,
ans-that Is, those who lived in Cali
tornia before the days of the gold fever.
Antonio Malta Sunoly was native of
Spain and served IN the French army.
lie came to this states in the French
naval vessel Bordelaii in 1917 and de-
serted the service the following year.
During his lifetime he held various
prominent offices in this state under
Me9Sicnn rule and acquired large pos
sessions. He died in 1865, leaving an
excellent reputation. The Sunol valley
was named after him.