62 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CEOLOtJY 



slightly to the northeast, will be made clear by reading 

 the telegram. The outstanding points of this letter are 

 as follows: 



1. The new position of Gaviota Peak instead of be- 

 ing twenty-four feet to the northward is four and one- 

 half feet, approximately, southeast by east from the old 

 one. Note well that this negates the alleged move- 

 ment to the northward of Gaviota Peak twenty-four 

 feet in thirty years, as alleged by Willis, and cancels his 

 deductions that there is a growing strain and earth- 

 quake producing pressure from the south to the north. 



2. A change of four or five feet would probably be 

 due to errors of triangulation, and is not dependable. 



3. The comparison of the angles and positions be- 

 tween the new and old work for that triangulation 

 across Southern California do not indicate conclusively 

 that earth movements occurred in that region, or, at 

 any rate, that there was any relative movement among 

 the stations involved. 



4. In any event the latest results indicate that the 

 changes of position reported in Bulletin 106 were due 

 to triangulation errors and not to actual earth move- 

 ments, except for some of the stations. 



Thus the foundations upon which were built the 

 whole structure of Dr. Willis's predictions of disaster in 

 Southern California have crumbled, bringing down all 

 of the superstructure with it. 



