Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 25, 1913, Page 2

ONe of the Campd 'IE Coast Range culminates in the peaks of San Gorgonio and San Hernardino of the San Bernardino mountains, with San Antonfo and S8an Jacinto only a little lower on either side. Then the range makes a decided drop to the south and shows heights quite a different character, with blunt tops instead of sharp peaks. Palomar and Cajon mountains are bold and conspicuous but not high, as moun- tains on the coast go. Still farther south, however, in the peninsula of Lower California, the range makes an- other lunge upward and produces the great San Pedro Martir mountain, more than nine thousand feet bigh. That is its last great effort, for in its more southern reaches it {s much broken, with plenty of peaks, to be pure, but no high ones. [ While some of the mountains of the |pper part of the range are higher than San Pedro Martir, none other of | { presents so Tuge a bulk. Seen from San Telmo, it is an unbroken wall forty or fifty miles long, which at the north end is first cut down sharply : and then beyond is almost completely demolished, as mountains rank; and at the south end is torn into gaps and has had its crest knocked off. There are two picachos, sharp, needlelike, of pure white granite, but they are 8o near the eastern side of the mountain that they cannot be seen at all from the west, and not from the south till one has reached San Juan De Dios, then they appear pointing thflavenwurd, shining white like great ! fcebergs. Y Almost Perpendicular, The western side of the mountain is abrupt, with very few places where it may be climbed, but the eastern side is stlll more 80 and makes an almost perpendicular drop to the desert. On more than an hour's timse, from snow and freezing temperature to a spot where the sun {s warm and birds are nesting. And then from beneath the feathery crowns of tropical palms he may look back to where, almost di- rectly overhead, stand the rugged pines he has just left. It is miles across the top from east to west, and with its great length the dimensions of the mountain are such as to almost entitle it to be called a high tableland, with hills and valleys and streams of its own. As it is high enough to catch winter snows and | summer rains, the pasturage on the top is always good, and when the low- er lands between the mountain and the Pacific are parched with drought here is a haven for starving herds. They come from as far away as San Juan De Dios and grow fat on the sweet grasses and the delightfully cool summer air. When winter grips the mountain, however, the herds must descend, for then the climate is too rigorous to be borne without suf- ficlent shelter. The cattle and horses are not the only ones that grow fat from a sum- mer residence on San Pedro; the herd- ers also are in clover. for the great forests are the home of {nnumerable deer, and bighorn as well, though not in so great numbers as the deer. Two Mexican friends of mine who were tending a herd of cattle on the sum- mit, in two weeks shot fifty deer and might easily have shot more, but they could not take care of and transport any more jerked meat. Another man had a standing offer from a San Francisco firm of $25 for every head of a male bighorn, and he | shipped a good many. That traffic of course was stopped when Mexican law declared a closed season for mountain sheep. It was high time, too, for they were wantonly destroyed, sometimes not even for their heads and skins, but merely for the pleasure of slaugh- ter. 1 think if American nimrods had understood how easily those marvel- ous hunting grounds might be reached hy boat to San Quintin, where an effi- | cient Mexican guide with excellent «addle and pack mules was to be pro- | cured, the slaughter would have pro- ceeded more merrily still. 1 heard of one American, and he fromn distant Boston, who had discovered this hunt- er's El Dorado, and who made peri- odical trips to it. That was before Mexico, in fear of insurrectos, forbade the importatior of firearms into the peninsula. [ It is not strange that San Pedro should harbor so much game, for it is the only really wooded mountain on the peninsula, and the timber here is very fine. Deer and bighorn are not the only game; other animals there are, not so harmless, and that may even play the roll of hunter in- that side one may descend, in scarcely , stead of hunted. Mountain lions are T Auditorium Stands For QUALIT SEE HOW YOUR FAVORITE IS RUNNING lNTHE CONTES Below appears the Jist of contestants according to their standing last night: Mrs. M. Chapman.. .. ....,. 8,930 Mrs. F. W. Eaton .. . ...... 186 Mrs. K. C. Bankston .... .. ..9,190 Mrs. F. A, McDonald ....... 145 Mrs. S. T. Fletcher .. .. ....4,850 Nis..l D.OHGR 0 Mrs. Wm, Steitz.. .. ...... 2,725 Mes. B. Tucker, Jr. ......... 50 Mrs. R. E. Wilkins .........1,886 Mrs. Walter Bates ...... .. 40 Mrs. T. 1. Woods ..........1,440 Mrs. T. Warlag .....co000. 30 Mrs. G. W. Friend ..... ... 930 Mrs. J. Patterson ..... sases 30 Mrs. A. Blowers . .......... 43¢ Mrs. W. D. McRae .......... :: e - & R | BRI i B Mrs. L. Willlamson ......... 30 Mrs. R. W. Hardaker. . 2 Mrs. C. C. Hendrix ..... Rl 10 Mrs.J Jones ............. .. 288 Mrs. H. 8. Melellainte ....... 10 Mre. B. F. Hines .. . 345 Mrs. Washbdorne ..... seseaes 10 |See Sylvia Summers and Compan ALL THIS WEEK In a Repertoire of One Act Comedie Miss Summers is a Lakeland Favorite, and Big Crowds Wi Greet Her CHILDREN 10c. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA, JUNE 25, 1913. which 30 Tumerous that young colts, g they consider the most deliclous . tidbits, have a hard time trying to be come horses. A man living on the western slope of the mountain showed me a corral fully five feet high from which a mountain lion took 8 three- year-old filly, leaping the fence with | ease with the colt in his mouth, and | dragging the carcass a mile up the | side of the mountain before he stopped 3 for his meal i Raging Torrents. i On the eastern side there are i streams that start bravely {roqz the | mountain, but they are immediately | sucked up by the sands of the desert. Canyon Diablo is an excellent example \ of this; in the time of rains the water | rushes from the mouth of the ex-’ tremely narrow, rocky canyon, which | 18 a mere slit in the mountain wall. in a tumultuous flood. It entirely fills the narrow opening so that the can- yon cannot be ascended beyond its mouth, and it cannot be crossed. such a raging torrent s it. Yet in les¢ than a mile it has disappeared, and not only is there no stream, but the | rounded arroyo sides are of smooth sand as though years had passed since water flowed between them. Many streams of abundant flow start out in this way, but all promptly disappear. And as the mountain acts as a barrier | to check the rains that come in from the Pacific, the strip of land between | San Pedro and the Gulf of California remains absolute desert. On the western slope, however, the streams flow with greater assurance. One of them is turned from its chan- nel and is carried along the skirt of the mountain for twenty miles to wash the gold from the soil of Socor- ro0. Sap Antonio creek is a falrly typical | mountain stream, a rushing little river, ' flowing through its own dense growth | of alders and alamos. It proves th'i mountain quality of its water, too, by sheltering speckled trout that reach the very respectable size of twelve | inches. i In one fertile little cove In its deep. rocky canyon it nourishes an oasis of | really tropical verdure, a tiny half-| moon of land set thick with fig, grape and peach, where Jack Frost never intrudes Didn't Concern Him, The tramp did away with a sanéd | wieh handed to him by the latest far- mer wife he bad favored with a call. Bhe bad wrapped the sandwich in a section of newspaper, which the tramp soanRed with the eye of carelessness ebaracteristic of his kind. “My idea of nothin’ to git nutty about.” he re marked to himself, after glancing at o market report, “is the advance of §3 a ton in the price of car wheels."— Yudge. Program For Tonight: SYLVIA SUMMERS ~ Proposing Under Difficulties Three '\Vhy not make THIS JULY tae month from which you can date your freedom from all the dangers aud inconveniences of handlng your funds by opening a CHECKING AC- COUNT v;'itt this institution. You are certaln of all the safe- guards and conveniences that a strong, well-managed bank offers when yu become one of our deposi- tors. 'THE STATE BAN | OF LAKELAND FL 3 Emplom of Chiy Leve, Kkindness, aharity may be, ot of them all, [ b 1 do kmew s that that her emblem ons always drawa betvan! the eross. b The QGinger Man. Sometimes the weather puts ginger fato some men. Then there is a kind of man that all the time puts ginger into everybody around him. Nobody in this old world is more useful to it than the chap who gives his fellow men shots of ginger in all kinds of weather. Ei LEE 1 ==if)-= Reels Good Pictures ADULTS 20