The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-05-17
A cALIroRNIA MARvgL.
4 shadow fhrown thirty Mues. From
cine Mountain to AnutheE

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just about four times q year tho
sunrise visitor b. Mount Diablo's s-m-
init may witness a rarc phenomenon.
tho "shadow OF tho devil" talked Of
vaguely for scores Of years an along
the Contra Costa county side. says
the san Francisco Chronicle. long
tlmo ago tho Spaniards who dwclt
here and there about Diablo's foothills
noticed the phenomena AMI gave 10
tho nGmo 10 stlll bears, Investing IL
with suporstitious fanclcs. ard hold
Ing 10 10 be- thing significant OF
good or ~. Tho shocpman or ranchcr
whom sunrise found noar enough the
peak ON the quarterly shadow days to
soc the strange landscape freak would
cross himself piously and go home be-
licying ho had an Omon. The first
photograph ever taken 81 tho shadow
was made recently from the top Of
Diablo Tow minutes after sunrise. u
" IN "a way notable picture, and tho
TAXI OF IL wa. extremely difficult,
a. the lights and shades are varied
and extremely hard 10 manage. Tho
NANNN MNANANA W'hN VIZ AfANNiN ""f
composed OF a quartet Of cyclcr-. ono
Of whom. i. i. B Argcnta. Is an en-
ihusiastlc member of Tho camera
club At a. m. Sunday the party
roas and went Ia the summit. pushing
ihoir wheels before them in tho dark
no-s over the toughest sort OF noun
tain road liy tho almanac tho sun
was scheduled to appear that morn
Ing q, G.32 o'clock, but u was 6iji be-
fore he appeared TO the waiting quar-
tet At $40 o'clock the shadow ap-
pcarol and the picture was taken 10
IN NO wonder that the Spaniards called
II tho DEVILS shadow IL has the APP
pcarancc Of the nothor regions anl l.
mysterious II only lasts FOR few
minutes and then i swept out Of tho
early morning srene as "a breath from
looking.glnss fades. II the observer
did not know just whore 10 look for II
II might easily come and pass Tor an
other three months and the watcher
not bo any the wiser.
There IL simple enough cNplana.
ton OF the shadow Diablo Is fully
! 900 fcot above the other mountains
Ia tho range about H., and whom the
sun rises behind Il n triangular shadow
OF the great conloal peak Is thrown
against Grizzly. which Is back OF
Pcrkcloy, thirty miles away. The
town west Of Dlnblo. Walnut Creek,
on the left. aud all tho cluster OF tiny
hills that surround Diablo Hike bril-.
liants around stone OF the first
water, are still In darkness, The two
largo valleys on either side seem
almost black when tho heavy shadow
IL thrown on the sccno slantingly clear
and sudden. Tho lights that sot on
the rhndow Hrc pccuiinr IN the OK
tromo. and that Is what makcs photog-
raphy up there such delicate and
difficult matter On the right side OF
the mountain tho light nearest to the
black limo that acccntuaics the shadow
was palost yellow, shading gradually
Into green. until IL was lost In the
green Of tho hills, On the loft the
line was reddish. and the shadow itself
was bluo- black No doubt Grizzly ~
oyorshadowcd every morning by It's
prc.ominont neighbor. thirty miles
away. but tho atmosphere l. seldom
kindly enough TO allow one TO 300 Il
from Dlahlo, On this Sunday morn
Ing there was a thin haze, but II was
not enough 10 blot out the shadow.
No one ever seems 10 have seen tho
shadow from tho intermediate low.
lands. In darkness.