DIVISION EIGHT — SCIENCE. 55 1 



cannot now be entered to obtain specimens.'^ This Beaudry coal shaft was 

 excavated bj^ Samuel Carson, a son of Gen. Fremont's famous Rocky 

 Mountain scout, Kit Carson. 



On the line of the abandoned old Santa Fe cut-off track from Raymond 

 to Lamanda Park, at a point between Moline and I^ake Avenue the grade or 

 roadbed was cut through a deposit of bog iron ore, also called " ferriferous 

 tufa," and " cellular limonite." It is a geological curiosity but of no com- 

 mercial value. 



In the South Pasadena hills, right where the I^incoln Park reservoir is 

 now located, there is an extensive deposit of feldspathic shale, and mixed in 

 it are boulders of water-lime rock which were dug out and burned and used 

 for hydraulic cement when the Padres of San Gabriel built their Mission 

 church, their mills and their dams. And the Pasadena colony people ordered 

 lime burned there for their Orange Grove reservoir in 1874 ; and Mr. Shorb 

 procured it also for the original cement ditch from Devil's Gate to Reservoir 

 No. I, in 1876. But fuel is so high now that a better article of cement can 

 be imported for less money than it will cost to quarry and burn the lime here. 



Fossil Fish Ledge — The body of hills extending from South Pasa- 

 dena to East lyos Angeles are commonly called " chalk hills," but there is 

 little or no real chalk or lime in the feldspathic shale of which they are 

 chiefly composed. It seems to be a sedimentry mixture of kaolin (decom- 

 posed feldspar) with silica and iron. Hon. Delos Arnold was spending the 

 winter of 1880-81 in Pasadena, and boarding at Col. Banbury's. The 

 Colonel was then working at carpentry, and was using a piece of this native 

 chalk for his chalk-line. This attracted Mr. Arnold's attention, as a matter 

 of geological interest ; and one day while driving along the adobe road he 

 picked up a piece of the chalky rock that had been washed down from the 

 ledge, and on separating it into flakes discovered the fossil imprint of a 

 small fish. He then followed up the wash-gully to the parent ledge, and 

 there found more specimens. The exact place of this fossil bed was only 

 known to five or six persons until July 9, 1895, when a party of twenty-six 

 Chautauquans spent several hours there, and succeeded in finding ten or 

 twelve specimens of the fossil fish, varying from one-half inch to two inches 

 long, besides fossil leaves and bud scales, and a beech nut, and wing cases 

 of water beetles ; also some specimens of dendrites,! 



* Hon. J DeBarth Shorb tells me that he saw this stuff, and that it was not coal at all, in the com- 

 mon understanding of the term, but small erratic beds of asphalt, compressed to a hard, dry, brittle 

 condition almost hke the best of true coal. And judging from all the conditions of the surrounding 

 country, I think Mr. Shorb is probably right about it. 



tThe Daily Star of July 10, 1S95, said : "A geological fishing excursion, with a picnic attachment. 

 * * At half-past eight o'clock yesterday morning the start was made from Fair Oaks avenue and Colo- 

 rado street— seven buggies and two " bikes," with Dr. Reid as guide. The following persons constituted 

 the party : Mrs. O. W. Stanton, president of the Delphi circle, and members. Prof. A. L. Hamilton, Mrs. 

 M. A. Wakefield, Misses Cora and Nettie Underwood, Miss Aeta Udell, Miss Blanche Allin. W- N. Van 

 Nuys. president of the Marengo circle; and members, Mrs. Van Nuys, J. W. Sedwick and wife, Prof. 

 Charles M. Parker, A. B. Stevens, Miss Jennette Tower, Miss Rosa Allin, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Mrs. 

 Anna H Johnson, Miss Blanche Johnson, Dr. A. B. Royal. Geo. W. Burman. Visitors, Mrs. A. M. Royal, 

 the doctor's mother and his son Harry ; Miss May Allin, Roy Gray and Will Gray. Among their equip- 

 ments for work were hammers, hatchets, a grubbing hoe, a railroad shovel, a putty knife, a cold chisel, 

 a dirk knife, a case knife, three jackknives, a framing chisel, a geological hammer, and several hair 

 pins." 



