The new enterprise., 1905-05-18

enter Tor hundreus OIL leel hhu SUI
have annie room above her masts ana
beneath her keel. How far small
boat could 90 no man knows.
This big cavern is in Santa Cruz Isr
and twenty-five miles out In the IA
cifc Ocean from Santa Barbara, says
n writer in the Chicago Journal Few
persons visit the island. 1t is used 10 |
pasture sheep and It's owners object 10 |
trespassers.
Once a year some Mexicnns and In
dians are sent over from the mainlahu
70 shear the fiocks and care for the
wool, and nearly every year a little
party of men goes over from SANTA
Barbara to capture some of the seals
which abound there, for shipment 10
zoos. A few fishermen, mostly Japan
ese make occasional trips TO hsh or
gather abalone shells. Beyond these
visitors are very rare. That explains
why the island and its wonders are
| not better known,
About the island are remarkable SUD-
marine gardens. The water Is so clear
that when it is quiet and the sun is
bright as It usually is, the bottom eau
be seen at depth Of fifty feet or more
The pictures that one sees looking
down from the boat are magnlhcen'
beyond description.
Where the water is deep one LOOKS
down upon what seems like forest OF
rare and curious trees Of varying coiors
swaying to and fro, among which arc
gliding beautiful and strange fishes OF
great variety. Brilliant gold perch'
emerald fishes, bass, albicore, EelIo"
tail and many other varieties varying
I'm size from the tiny minnow to hsl
three or four feet in length, dart abon'
or lie lazly tapping their ms ahoht
the branches. The sun shining dow
into this transparent water casu
shadows from all these moving thlhgS
producing a Kaleidoscope ehect INA
! is often almost bewildering,
, Beneath the water along the rock,
shores other equally splendid but dll
= fprent pictures may he seen, Here m'
). rlne plants Of most brilliant and varl'
, GATED colors, scarlet purple, plu'
@ green. brown, cling to the rocks Whll
p mingled with the flowers are to u
: saen great lazy Holsters, star hshe
II obolones. sea cucumbers and occasion
II ally an octopus 1t is doubtful Whe'l
o or at any other place in the world, NJ
II oxcepting even Santa Catalina Islam
N can views of such marvellous Deau'
le be obtained ~, J..
10 Rut nature did not lavish all h'
ne wonders on the marine lie OF Sah
cruz. Even more marvellous are u
@. wonders that she has wrought III u
a domain Of geology
n. Although no craters have been loui
10 ON the island. 1t is evidently OF W
conjc origin. 1t is one Of the proje'
inc SUBMITS Of n nearly suDmerS
range of mountains,
-. The shores are irregular ana lndchp
,ir with a number Of small bays but g
~ orally bold. Either by some great U
.,y leaval or by the wearing of the wat'
81. for many ages, great cavcrns eXtendi
3" for into the bowels Of the island Ia
-. hpen formed. 1t Is said that there
,,S not fewer than ffty Of these caves.
~ One of them is about mile lr'
~ .rody's Harbor. The entrance
on through an arc perhaps twel'e !
-" high and scarcely ten feet wide :
-, Far from the entrance the cave wid'
wv Wv, and yerges into a great, silent cave
'n NV. tho walls of which present q Varl
Wv, Wv, Of splcndid and beautiful colors'
~ Valdcz's cave is SO called because
EeI WAS once. according to local traditI
at least, the headquarters OF Pr
~ and smuggler named Valdez Long
no fore the place was favorite resort
II, Indians. 1t is rImorcd, too, that III
oro cent years smugglers have maze
~ of this cave as a stcrehouse ana ;
']0 ming place for their transportation D
= - ness. Cinnamon have also someu
ors "s found it convenient place wnlle s.
~, ing TO eyade the exclusion law.
neS II does not need tradition or roma
40 Sa however, to give interest to the pl
.So Inst above the surface OF the w
'n0 there is an opening cut far back
q ~ the rock, thus forming a broad
.,n m tered retreat, with good landing p
~. In front. From this spacious sh'
''N I'm the rock q great archway OF lu
.no extends entirely through proJec
'To ir point of rock to the opposite
,.n, ~ where it opens out again upon the
'e"U beside great, rough walls, Fisher
,,n often stay at this cave, sleeping Oh
ntle, sihootn, .,'a,, SanuS So,,arinc Is needed.
,,sor l'pn. But most wonderful Of all the
,,l.s na.s ders of Santa Cruz is the Painted
ears W." ~ r.-,t.. This