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Show A QUAIIRY OF VERDE. ON ISLAND OF OATALINA, OFF CALIFORNIA. M VK by the Inillae llaala lloa.a-hM lloa.a-hM Manilla from ll nnd llarl.rod Thtin tot (lama and tklni Slnc riant .Ubll.tie1. (Bpeolal ltter.J The question whether wo aro ad-itoclog ad-itoclog In Ihe mechanical arta and great scheme ot engineering I often agitated when we an confronted with the work of the nnelent. The pyramid are Ihe moat Rtupendnu work ot man eer contemplated, nnd there appenn to be nothing new under la tun Intereet In Irrigation In the oslbweat dawned within the laat twenty year, yet in Arltana and Now Mtiho there aro trace of a clvllxa-Hon clvllxa-Hon to old that tho mind fall or a in following It track. We tee beds of streams cut through mile of country, cuo mountain rauge. and a mate ot Irrigation streams croaalng and recreating re-creating the land, male unknowa age In t patt year, to perfect from an tntjaeerlng itandpolnt tint the expert ex-pert of today are emptying I hem ot the Mad and debrla ot etnturlo and uaUi them nt lb artartta that aball bring new life to tht fertile part ot SnilPENTlND QUAIIRY AND WELL what was the old American deeerL Everywhere we folio In tho ttopa of the anelenla. and on the lalnnd ot Banta Caullna there U an Interesting Illustration of thla. When Ihe white n,-tt visited southern south-ern California thy to.ind In uto among all the mainland Indiana richly tbnptd oltaa or morLira of ttentlte or terpentine, terpen-tine, while teore of article were formed of finer grade of tho aamc, which expert have pronounced verdo antique In almott every gravo ollaa were found, ami hundreda had been handed down nnd wero In tho possession posses-sion ot the Mexican descendant, of the Indltni, There were flat atonea, perforated to hang on pet, quaint ernamenta, aeulpturlng of varlout animal and tally ttonea with line cut In them. One found by the writer at Santa Crux Itland on tbe breast ol a skeleton bore Ufty or more straight inarkt which might have been the man' age and wero all that could bt made out. Verde antique waa valuable, and a search waa rando for tho point of aup-ply. aup-ply. Finally I'rof Schumacher of the Smithsonian discovered It on Santa CiUHni Itland, which Ilea oft aauth-ern aauth-ern California, In a locality named I'olt' lley, about fifteen mile from tbe little town of Avnlou. I'rof. Schumacher found on thlt Island a perfect treasure house and carried car-ried to the natloual muteum hundred! of object rcprcaentlng the ancient California Cal-ifornia Islander. All the Island of thlt group wero Inhabited by a hardy ROUND 8CAII3 INDICATi: PLACES KUOM WHICH OI,LAS WEIlE 11I10K-UN 11I10K-UN 11Y THE INDIANS. race that had camp In every canyon where there wa water, and Banta Catallna abounds In kitchen mlddent and placea where thoto proplo lUcd. That they were a commercial raco !e .hown by tho ollaa made by them, and tnoy wero the mercbanta who supplied tho racea ot southern California with tholr pot aud mortar or olla. I'rof. Schumacher attention was attracted at-tracted at I'ott't valley by the reraark-nblo reraark-nblo rock where Ihe ecor ot ollaa that havo been broken oft by tho Islanders .,o plainly teen. Tho rock It a lofty mast of steatite that rise In the center cen-ter of Pott's valley, now called Urn-ulr Urn-ulr Lauding. It It a landmark from a long dlttance at tea and It overdrawn over-drawn with oactut and various kinds of vtge"t'; Indeed, the cactua hides a lsrgo portion ot It-an almost Im-nregnable Im-nregnable chevaux d frlae. Tho scars ire clroulsr nnd aro the marks where the round olios were broken off. The method of work wsa very primitive, the natives having cniv slats and quartx knives lo wot nlth. With thtise rude Implements they caned out an object the thapo ot a camion ball and as large a a football. Gradually Grad-ually this was picked away until Anally Anal-ly It hung by a narrow item, whL'b wit broken oft. The Inildo was then alowly dug out with the tame rude loot and In time Iho olla acquired tho amooth and often artistic torn so familiar In all the muteum collections. The common ahape It round, but flno mortar shape) three feet In height we: a not unusual The writer some weeks ago lent over tble old manufactory very care fully and found 11 rnoet Interesting Here was an aboriginal manufactory an outdoor workshop In the Immediate Im-mediate vicinity of which were found vcrde antique Implements lu varloua elages from Ihe olla Juat outlined tn the one Hint had been broken off, leaving leav-ing the scar In Iho rock. In a word, Ihe complete evolution ot the olla could lie traced here, especially at tho head of Cottonwood canyon, back ot Pull's valley, where erdo antique crop nut In ledge In every direction On many ot those can be seen the work of the notlte carvers, whllo beneath aro tbe pIlis and heaps of chips as thiy were left centuries ago. Ihe early Spanish navigators, Ca-brllki Ca-brllki and Vlscnlno, who discovered Ihe Island 200 years ago, described tho flue canoe of the native These, laden with ollai, crossed the Santa Catallna channel, and the natives exchanged ex-changed them for game and akin not found here Tho preaent ownert ot tho Island, recognising the valuu of tho ttouo fur commercial purposes, havo followed out the muto augEettton of tho ancients by esUbllthlng at Hm-plro Hm-plro Landing a sawing plant, opening up n valuable quarry and one that It unlquo, it 1 believed, having no prototype pro-totype nt Icoit In thl country. The verdo nntlquo resembles soapstone In tho crude rock and would easily escape es-cape observation. It Is ot different degrees ot hardness, and while so soft that it ran bo readily read-ily worked. It has great tensile strength, It chief value being In Ihe rcmtrknblo manner In which It can be worked Almost every posslblo object ob-ject can be made from It from a boat to n screw. A great value tics In Us imitation when pcllahed ot the darker grade ot mnrblo, and owing to Its cheapness nnd durability It Is In demand de-mand among architects for mantels, lining, electrical slabs nnd whero a perfecttr polished surface Is required with the strength ot marble The new city hall of Lot Angeles and many ol the flno buildings In that city and San Francisco are finished In It, tho stone taking a rich polish, abounding In gicens and yellows, grays and black. A visit to this quarry ls most Interesting. In-teresting. Here, 800 or 900 fret above the tea, Is an elaborate plant and a aeries of saws that are capable of cutting cut-ting out hundreds of feet ot verdo an- lltue a week Tho rock Is first bored Into with a steam rock drill, a modern Improvement on tbe flint chips of the ancient owners of the soil A serloi of borings make It nn easy matter to break off tho slab, which ls then towered tow-ered by a huge crane upon a car, run der the saws and blocked for cutting The saw Is a gang saw with a blunt surface and, worked by a steam engine, en-gine, moves bark and forth on the edge ot tho stone, not touching It bul cutting by tho grinding Into It ot a mast ot steel shot, which nre really the teeth of the saw The rapidity with which this is accomplished It marvelous and large slab are out with ease. |