The Lamar register., 1893-10-28

ard the Cuff of California. and was
,nioseo'er' eventually split up the
ishstn OF II by the Garth
qaaSes OK the time. There
after, having ootained a star.
through the earthqnases the ole
ments did the rest OF the work of eut-
ting out the Tule osa valley and its
branches By erosion The rain and
frost wore and split out a channel
tnfough the congiomerats, made a
channei that was alternately cut out
and hued up until at last there re-
manned valley that from the head
down 10 Joseph will average less than
a mile " de, and even this Is cut into
and cont acted BY many rounded
promon;ories or hozsbaells OF tho
oonglomerate rock.
The Iulcrosa runs nearly to the
southwest The careful observer will
see that the southe-ly bank for a good
many miles below the course is the
sleeper. that the valley lies on the
nor heFly side, VIII re, too, atout all
the prom ontories mentioned lie. Cot
ionwoods and willows grow along the
creek, while the mountain sides and
even some of the mountain tops are
covered with q scatt red growth Of
lons-lcaved and nut pine and a couple
II varieties of cedar. II will be
further noticed hat the mountain
sides slope uD II various angles till the
CAP or crown OF lava Is reached. This
cap Invariably presents a p,rpendicu-
lar face-the TOD II every mourtlin
shows a pTecipice fifteen or twenty
feet high on every side The ilat black
crowns OF these mountains show with
singular effect above the gray OF the
grass-eovc-cd ennglomerate and the
green Of tree tops on the side below.
In every asp ct the reg on is pictur-
esquc nj attractive to the eye. As will
be demonst ated further on the region
has n materially changed since its
ancient inhabitants Vanish i away.
They cultivated the same narro W
valley, hunted thro1gh similar groves
in the cany ous and clam bcrei o er the
same lava covered mountain tops in
search OF game
A. one studies the remains of this
people. the statement that the country
has not materially changed since the
ancient inhabitants disappeared seems
very Teraarisa bic, for here within n
] range OF ten 'ciles are enough ruins OF
houses TO hold 20,O0J people, while the
altitude is too great for the successful
cultivation of corn lit is about 1900
feet 4 boye the sea- the rainfall is so
uncertain and limited in quantity that
She region is practically desert and
the supply OF water for irrigation
would rot suffice for section of land
Here was found, in fact, an open city
or, rather. a village many miles long,
having thousands Of inhabitants
Whore did the people get the corn on
which they subsisted aud remains of
which eau be found In the ruinse They
must have been very skilful farmers
After considering the country in
which the people lived one naturally
examines toe sites chosen for their
houses As he travels down the valley
for the first time these sights will be
pointed out by the stage driver.
Sec those stones over there-whole
10; OF them together That's an old
ruin. Up there beyond IS another
Sc. it2''
The tourist will look and will see IL,
but II unaccustomed to examining
such things will think, very likely,
that the driver is guying him To the
ordinary eye the signs of an ancient
dwelling look more like pile of rocks
washed from canon than they do
like anything arranged by human
hands Indeed. in many of the ruins
the surface indications have lost all
scmblance of human arrangement