Show WHERE THE HONOR BELONGS Credit for Discovery of Arch Due Dean DOUGLASS'S REPORTS ARE Guest of Utah People Claims for Their By Neil M. Judd in the University Recent reports of W. D. U. S. examiner of filed at Washington and circulated through various give the general public a false impression of the part he played in the discovery of the world's largest natural Douglass selfishly wishes to secure all the honor of that expedition and possibly for gets just the position he occupied at the time the discovery was It is to correct this unjust impression and to place the honor where it truly that this article is Douglass made an unsuccessful attempt to find the great bridge and also the large cliff house in its late in the fall of last lie was furnished with an abundance of concerning the location of the by John of even was unable to follow the right He returned to southern this summer to finish the-work he had abandoned the year The Douglas party was composed of the Dan of Bluff owner of the horses and head three and a Piute guide named This Indian had taken Douglass to the Canyon bridge in 1908 at that had told Douglass's men of the existence of the lie had never seen the but hoped to reach it from a description of the country furnished by another Piute living on the edge of the Navajo Despite the fact that writing from Bluff had done in his power to have Dean Cummings expelled from the by asserting that the excavation being done without he was given all the courtesy due a gentleman by the Utah Cummings waited at three days in hopes of meeting Douglass when the government man appeared on the day we intended to freely offered to join forces and share the Douglass had five very heavily packed while the University party carried but two light were forced to travel slowly in order that the larger animals might keep Dean Cummings' entire party accompanied him on the bridge interpreter and guide for the University people during part of the was also a member of the a was employed as son of the Indian from whom Jim had received his had been engaged the winter previous by and it was the intention of Wetherill to pick up the boy on the way to Douglass had been informed by Wetherill that neither his Piute nor our Navajo knew where the bridge was but that our run horses the summer before and knew the country We upon reaching Piute that the Piute boy had taken his goats to the mesa and that his whereabouts were Wetherill determined to push on without a relying upon his knowledge of the country as given to his wife by the the winter day before we reached the Wetherill had difficulty in retaining the services of both They became disheartened at the roughness of the trail and wished to turn Before daylight the next joined the Cummings section the He had heard that Wetherill was going to the bridge and overtook the party on the strength of his agreement with The bridge was first seen shortly before noon on August Douglass had made every attempt to keep in front of the guides during the entire in order that he might gain first of the Prof Cummings and his party left for the next his Navajo with It the professor's wish that everything possible he done to make the surveyor's work inasmuch as he had failed once Our Navajo knew the trail from Navajo Mountain to Sega where the ruins Douglass sought were Being thoroughly familiar with the I Dean Cummings' to show Douglass the larger The Navajo the next morning and overtook the Utah Douglass the bridge early on the His Indian claimed to he familiar with the therefore another Piute was i I was with Douglass seven days from the time the twp parties separated at the From the head of the Sega I took the surveyor directly to the one hundred and forty room pointing out to to on the the canyon containing the forty-room building discovered by Acting upon instructions from the head of our I furnished Douglass with of its principal marking the springs and tanks in which water could be also noting those places where he could expect to find grass for his I left Douglass and his men the morning after we reached going directly to where our party was The government man had been given all the information we had secured as a result of the summer's held nothing At the Douglass suggested to Dean Cummings that the Utah Historical Society present his boy with a gold medal for guiding them to the When Cummings asked that the Navajo name for the be Douglass absolutely refused to consider the This has been a hurried review of the trip to the out much detail and many incidents at this time would make interesting The plain truth has been told there has been no attempt to praise or My purpose has been to the position of Dean Cummings and let Utah student and other friends the stat know where the real honor of th discovery Had it no been for the kindness of Prof Douglass would havi been unsuccessful a second time The victor used to he content the now the spoiled want |