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Show REGION OF WONDERS. BOME OF THE NATURAL. VARVELS TO BE SEEN IN OREGON. Illustrations of Both the Dead and the Living; Liv-ing; Fast Premonitions In Abundance of Something Strange to Come In the Valley Val-ley of Desolation. Nowhere on the known globe is there another region of the same extent representing repre-senting the weird and grewsome as well as the sublime and grand in nature as in a long and wido strip lying a considerable consid-erable distance inland from the western coast of the United States. Here can be found an abundance of illustrations of both the dead and living past that Btrange past of physical violence preceding preced-ing the age of man, and that solemn past when the forces had gone to rest and tho imprint of chaos lay everywhere. There are premonitions in abundance of something strange to come in the counties coun-ties of Snohomish, Okanogan, Douglas and Yakima in Washington, but this is not fully emphasized until the Oregon counties of Morrow, Gilliam, Grant and Lake have been considered, and the marvelous mar-velous receives a wonderful accession in the long line of eastern California counties, coun-ties, southern Nevada, a considerable region in Utah west of Great Salt lake, southern New Mexico and a region of no small dimensions in northern Texas. Here, to the mental and the ocular sight, are unsolved problems in geology, paradoxes para-doxes in physical formation and numberless number-less instances of what may be termed inversions in-versions of established geographical order. or-der. In Oregon we are confronted with the still and silont Sagebrush desert, hemmed hem-med in by a wildly picturesque yet as dreary and inhospitable a region as can be found anywhere. In the midst of this desert, as if to reflect tho surrounding awfulness, is Fossil lake, and all the surrounding region is one vast and wide cemetery of the fauna of a precataclysmal world. Here are massed together more fossil specimens of a grater variety of early animal life than eaji.?,fomi'1 y-vmere y-vmere cm tuts" earttn, - '.jfepnuig the.; immense im-mense fossil islands northward of Siberia! Si-beria! horses of rare form, different species spe-cies of camels, llamas, mammoths, sloths of huge proportions, wonderful birds, and the evidence that primitive man at some time was there is indicated by the presence pres-ence of arrowheads chipped from vol-oanic vol-oanic glass. But what long ages have been entombed since these tropical animals ani-mals in their untamed strength trod the soil of Oregon and what mighty changes have swept over the earth since then 1 How came they there in such amazing numbers, and what were the causes of Buch universal and evidently such simultaneous si-multaneous death? No conditions on the earth aa we know them now could bring this about Yet here nature chose to locate one of her remarkable mortuary mortua-ry establishments and to enshroud it with the gloom of unrelieved desolation. desola-tion. Commencing in this region and extending down into California, the mountains are freakish They are not constructed on the chain or continuous system. The earth did not wrinkle her crust, but she erupted into huge boils; the peaks stand isolated, Bometimes interrupting in-terrupting an otherwise comparatively even plain. And now the valleys, rivers and considerable con-siderable lakes take on a habit of becoming be-coming lost The streams, after considerable consid-erable underground meandering, find themselves again on the surface, and after a succession of reappearances and disappearances either 6tay found or are lost entirely. Chasms, with almost a mile of depth and faced with perpendicular walls of solid rock, now begin to appal both sight and sense, and in Mariposa county coun-ty the tremendous canyon of the Yosemite exceeds anything of the kind on the earth. Before this hot springs have become common, lakes of soda water abound, and San Bernardino has valleys where the soil is hot and boiling geysers obtrude. Lava fields, covering immense tracts, have exhibited vitrified scoriae from northern Oregon down, and Nye county, Nev., has lava beds in profusion. In Inyo county, and taking in a portion of San Bernardino, Death valley, grim, hot and repellent, presents itself, it and the surrounding region constituting, not in the mind only, but in reality, a region bordering more on the human conception of the infernal than can be furnished by any other locality on the globe. In this valley of desolation the summer sum-mer temperature reaches 140 degrees, rivaling that of the Sahara. It is some hundreds of feet below sea level, en tirely destitute of water, although the Amagosa river discharges into one end of it, and in the interior has an atmosphere atmos-phere as of burning sulphur that neither human nor animal lungs can long inhale in-hale without great risk to lif a Embracing Embrac-ing hundreds of square miles, it affords not a sign of either animal or vegetable life in its interior, while its furnacelike heat renders it one of the hottest spots on the globe. In the same system is Soda So-da lake, into which the troubled Mohave river finally enters, discharging it brackish waters as into a sieve. The country abounds with sinks, streams suddenly plunge into subterranean depths farther south to furnish hot water, wa-ter, hot mud and sulphur volcanoes, dotted in miniature over an immense area, hissing and spitting and loading the air with most disagreeable fumes, The Utah section (hplicates many of lha, naorktUt fcfttarM coma an ta ft other localities mentionea ana anoruB indisputable evidence of having been involved in-volved in the throes of the mighty disturbance dis-turbance that once prevailed throughout this singular region, and which must have been still potent long after the other surface that is now embraced in the United States was quiescent. Whatever the nature of the violence may have been, Great Salt lake lower-sd' lower-sd' its level 940 feet, and a vast region partook of great and sudden topographical topograph-ical changes. 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