Show CAMELS ROAMED HERE YEARS AGO I 1 fenior ien lor student at U makes impart ant discovery in lava flow plow avest of billmore rill more identified ty rail 1 nent authority as being fossilized remains of extinct cimel i AROUSES INTENSE INTEREST interest Is always elsewhere there Is nothing interesting close around but always somewhere else there s so sometime I 1 but it itris Is here turned we have it Three ears ago hector lee now a senior student in the university ol 01 utah found a skull and part of a jaw of some animal in one ot of the nu berous caves in the lava flow to the west of filmore he had been prowling around in there hunting anything of interest and finally in a cave like recess under the blocks and crust of the former lava flow he found in a deposit of wind blown material some fossilized bones he thought it was important and instead of merely turning the spec linens over to some one else to be forgotten torgi otten he studied them did his level best to identity identify them by geology ic it study and when fully aware of the importance of his find sent his specimens to proffesor sor alfred S ro mer vertebrate paleontologist of the university of chicago to be studied identified and de turned to him so interesting were these to pro cesor romer that he wrote a rather extended article on them in the mag azine SCIENCE which gave the find world wide prominence and over the signature of an authority of lecog nihed standing that was published a little over a year ago mention of which in this paper at that time always the harum press hungry tor for the sensational gives a dating if it hugely exah so prof romer checks that tendency by giving the calm carefully guarded statement it Is probable pra bable that it is several thousand years old but that it dates back halt a million years or so Is utterly im possible for the trilobites found at antelope spring fifty miles west of here are a form ot of life very very old almost the first lat ed and specialized life found in fos eil ell form when evolution had not risen to backbone land breathers or any of the late forms and by tar far very very far antedating the dino the huge lizard e creature of late geologic times careful au an ties assign a relative date to the trilobite tio to approximately 30 beirs ago very guardedly and with no assurance in mere recital of figures but all saying it la Is very old but imagine my surprise to pick up a magazine section of a per and read what tl e writer had so glibly reeled oft off huge dinosaurs hoai ed con T PI reo rec hundred million years ago multiplied Muti plied by ten so the date tentatively set tor for the cmel old bosil finds ol 01 lee are given as during some period periled since the dis appearance of the waters of lake pon nevile some time between 7 and 25 years ago and possibly not to exceed in age the latter tig fig ure which is termed recent geo logi caly in size this came lold remains is about the size of 0 the old world pres ent day camel and the article in said that prof romer found fourteen points substantial ing his placing of the bones in the camel genus let me add a statement on the use of the word caves in this con lection cave might give rise to a misconception as implying wind formed water formed or eroded holes caverns recesses or similar places these caves eaves west of fill more in the lava flow are simply spaces more or less large formed as the hard crust of the lava flow cooled while the under plastic flow was continuing and when the crus hardened enough it remained fixed and the vis ous lava flowed from beneath it weight caused the crust to f fall all c ve in and the irregular blocks or chunks tell fell often in such manner that an inverted V resulted a cave wida wid at it the bottom narrow above en 0 times extending tor for a length of set sei lal ial hundred feet in which tunel bunel lil a e hole or empty space spate a person may valk or crawl in the hollow places formed by the angles of the fallen blocks in some places one can stand quite upright in oth era ers the spaces are tare quite restricted and with difficulty one threads the tortuous way in one or two places the lava sheet had apparently flowed over a soil softer which has since digap feared dissolved out under water or by any other cause known ta ge 0 ogy agy been removed leaving a sheet in supported in places hence cave file e and commonly spoken of 0 as caves eaves dut but it Is not in any proper sense like lehman cave carlsbad cave or even wind blown recesses like in canyon del muerto huerto in fhe he pueblo region one such cave near fillmore Is a hollow space under ground which Is locally called the devil devils s kitchen there are others similar cave like a pace between a sheet above and the floor the salt lake tribune had an ar tide and picture of lee and bis his finds in the issue of last sunday FB sr |