The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-14

strata sank while the mountain portion rose. Let us now return to our coast. History Is slowly but surely repeating itself in the geological movements now taking place west of the city of Red lands
 Let us keep in mind that wonderful submerged sea cliff, some distance from the shore, paralleling Japan, Aleutian Islands and the American continent. Beyond that sea cliff the sea deepens rapidly. A new Sierra is evidently be- ing formed in the great deep. take it, slowly but surely a new coast noun tain Is being born. When 1t is finished, San Francisco will be an inland city and San Diego will be a city on the hills in the interior. But time is long and | the Creator is never in a hurry. This sea floor uplift has it's direct in fluence on the coast mountains. It can not fail to add to the pressure on the rock structures of the coast and to as- sist in folding, faults and Assures. i Therefore cities near the sea, built on poor foundations, will suffer most when quakei occu:,
 i To this must be added the influence of the great subsistence of the earth's crust under the equator Beneath the equator in the Pacific ocean a region six thousand miles long and from two thousand to three thousand miles wide Is sinking. Great seismic disturbances mst occur frequently in that zone of the mighty deep. Somewhere the earth must find relief from the pressure of that subsistence and shrinkage.
 The first mountain-making belt of California was the Sierras; the secone, still in progress, was the Coast noun tains; the third is the sea cliff range now shaping off our shore. California is young geologically. She is growing and full of life and hope. For many years she if bound to throb with the ex- pectation and new developments.
 Even the Imperial country and the
 whole of the gulf region show evil dences of change. The well known shell beaches there and terraces indi- cate an elevation of land rather than a
 subsistence. Seismic disturbances may
 be expected to accompany the changes
 taking place at the mouth of the Colo
 rado river.
 Growing mountains have always been
 earthquake regions. This will be true
 whether in Alaska or Chile, Japan or
 California. The San Francisco earth
 quake is along the line of the mountain
 making region. Where the work of the
 Great Architect seems complete, such
 as is found in the granite rib of the
 San Barnardino mountains, we may
 look for only light jars.
 Few people in the East have the
 slightest conception of the difference oi age between the Sierras and the Coast
 mountains. How can they distinguish
 between a rock Assure with It's earth
 jar which wrecked San Francisco an( sympathetic tremor only felt, and by
 few at that, some five hundred mile' distant from the crevasse cuasing tht temidor of April IS?
 We wait with interest the report O the commission appointed to examine : the causes of the memorable earth quake. We believe the rock is now re : lieved by the faulting. Another faul r and jar need not be expected; at leas : a severe one will not occur for man. ] Iyears, if the history of mountain-m t ing movements can. be relied upon ol l the coast as they may be in other part 9 of the world. No eye can see It al - now; but the Day will deolaim it. q Honest scientific study can help us t 3 feel our way to the light.
 s San Francisco, May 4.-Geologist d who have been at work since the earth s quake with the object of finding trace = that would establish the cause of tn Q disturbance have found in the noun f tain range west of Redwood City in Sa g Mateo county what appears to be indis e putable evidence that their theory ( tt the parting of the mountain range T along the coast is the correct one. 0 At the summit of the mountains nes O the village of Woodside there Is an in s rnense crevasse in the earth, the al l. pearance of which indicates that th l. range was split at the top, and the sic e nearer the ocean fell away toward u e sea. This crevasse, which is from thrt e to six inches wide, has been followe s, for more than four miles on the crest {