Show utah museum group visits fillmore craters amses 0 0 I 1 have visited the fillmore era and ice spring seven or eight times once with rulon F starley present bank commissioner many lears eara ago mr air starley was well post ed on the area and made the trip very interesting once with harold bishop once with willard rogers when an excellent photo was obtain ed of members of the party eating icicles in the hot lava bed which was published in the arrowhead maga zine and two newspapers once with deward hopkins once with the del ta high school faculty willis savage principal once with charles kelly author and writer on the west fine photos were were taken once with kay Sak Sa kamura hmura a graduate of the takla japan school of science once with two men whose faces even on the film wont recall to mind who tl ey were such a faulty memory tor for faces as 1 have and one or two other trips on which I 1 didn dian t take notes and this most recent trip with wendell poulson president of the utah society and J 11 belt a trustee of that organization to gether with members of their party this was the most interesting Inter sting trip I 1 have ever taken there we found the orifice of terrace crater corn com plemely filled at the bottom with I 1 ICE CE ice frozen so thick that all of us who went weri t down into the vent stood on the surface taking snaps back up in silhouette of those who were perched on the lip of the opening this is the first time I 1 have ever encountered ice fee there it was most interesting some wag planted two small goldfish in this water a few airs back used to parlor warmth to find a cake of ice eight inches above them now would make em era long for the privacy of their former glass bowl we went to the topmost lip of mitre crater and then down in the I 1 lit it and there got the surprise of our lives for ICE was in the very central bottom where the sun should play at the place the ancient vent should be a condition never in any of my former visits that unusual condition makes this trip outstanding in novelties it confirms an experiment I 1 once conducted there I 1 felt there should be a vent possibly yet open and lit pt a match which an upward current of air promptly blew out and kept on blowing out as long as I 1 continued the experiment it was midsummer in a blazing hot day and that tunnel funnel pit a veritable inferno ot of heat when I 1 took another party down to show them this open vent search as a I 1 would and light matches bythe by the score tickle fickle dame nature would not strut her stutt stuff and I 1 waa was the laughing stock of the party but last sunday the hole vent internal conduit or whatever you may wish to ta call it was plugged with ice the same as the other vent in terrace arater this channel may connect with the artesian flow of the flowell area with clearlake clear lake or run down a blind alley cherev er it goes its orifice was plugged sunday gunday with ice this recent trip was rich in re wards we went down through the great breach where a wall in this seething cauldron burst outward aoa the pressure of hot lava in the big funnel pot and we saw the can die dle drippings of lava melted and where it had nin run again actually dripping down after the great pot jad pad been emptied the residual heat of the walls being sufficed suf ficen t to melt the drips we stayed there a half hour glorying in the things we saw tiny stalactites of dripping mol ten lava marks of lowering of the red hot crust against the sidewalls making slicks as they slid down it grating the heated surface surfaced and marked where inhere the al sidewall dewall was carried like a log in a freshet in the stream of lava until it hodg ed out yonder y onder a buttress against which the current buffeted in vain forcing the molten lava stream to deflect its course turn aside and pass onward around the edge we saw where a newer crater had performed piracy as geologists say of a stream which had stolen the course of the other for the newer eruption had boarded the vessel of the older one ones s lip or rim and by strength of arm and robbed the former contour of rim to make its own the same thing can be seen through a small telescope on the moon we visited the ice spring at leys ley a farm and again good luck ac com compacted compan panted led us for we found an a of ice fee a crib for re friger atlon and numerous photos of the party were taken each sucking an icicle we clambered down into the crib and it was like entering a stor star age warehouse in a packing plant fool coal to chilliness it was the most interesting visita tion to that region I 1 have ever had and not once did interest of any member of the party flag tor for an in stant being a new experience for them they must have got more of a wallop out of it than I 1 did I 1 thank the party tor for bringing the trip about ab out |