The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-02-01
A CALIFORNIA MARVEL,
A Shadow Thrown Thirty Miles, ii
One Mountain tn An0tl,er. T.:

| Shadow Thrown Thirty Miles, from
One Mountain to Another. "a n
Just about four times year the sun
rise visitor to Mount DiablO's summit may
witness 4 rare phenomenon, the SHADOW
Of the devil" talked of vaguely for scores
OF years all along the Contra Costa coun
ty SHE, says the San Francisco Chronicle.
\ long time ago the Spaniartls who dwelt
here aud there about Diablo's foothills
noticed the phenomena and gave it the
name it still bears, investing it with super
stitious fancies, and holding it to be a
thing significant for good OF i'll. The
near enough the peak ON the quarterly
shadow to see the strange landscape freak
would cross himself piously and go home,
believing that he had III omen. The first
photograph ever taken of the shadow was
made recently from the top of sDiabo "a
few minutes after sunrise. II is In II way5a
extremely difficult, as the lights and shal-
ows are varied and extremely hard to
manage. The party which Went up Dia-
bio was composed of Il quartet Of cyc,ers,
| one of whom, ]. ]. r. Argenta, is an en-
| ihusiatic member of the Camera club. At
Il. N. Sunday the party arose and went
to the summit. pushing their wheels be-
est sort of mountain road. BY the al
manac the sun was scheduled to appear
that morning at 6:32 o'clock. but it was
G:34 O'Clock before he appeared to the
waiting quartet. At GAO o'clock the shad-
ow appeared and the picture was taken.
it the devils shadow. It has an appear
| ance of the neither regions and is mys-
FERROUS. 1t only lasts for a few minutes,
| and then is swept off the early morning
| scene as Il breath from a looking glass
fades. If the observer did not know just
where to look for it it might easily come
| and pass for another three months and
the watcher not be any the wiser.
There is Il simple enough explanation
for the shadow Diablo IS full 1000
! feet above any of the other mountains in
the range about it. and when the sun
rises behind it triangular shadow of the
great conical peak is thrown against
Grizzly which is back Of Berkeley; thirty
, miles away. The town west of Diablo,
Walnut Creek, on the left. and all the
cluster of tiny hills that surround Diablo
like brilliants around stone of the first
water. are still in darkness. The two
large valleys on either side seem almost
black when the heavy shadow is thrown
on the scene slantinsly clear and sudden.
culiar in the extreme, and that is what
makes photography up there such deli
cate and difficult matter. On the right
side of the mountain the light nearest to
the black line that accentuates the shad-
ow was palest yellow, shading gradually
into green, until it was lost in the green
of the hills. On the left. the line was
reddish, and the shadow itself was blue
black. No doubt Grizzly is overshadowed
every morning by its pre-eminent neigh
Dor. thirty miles away. but the atmos-
phere is seldom kindly enough to allow
one to sec it from Diablo. On this Sun
day morning there was a thick haze, but
it was not enough to blot tho shadow.
No one ever seems to have seen the shad-
ow from the intermediate lowlands, in