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Show THE SALINA SUN. SALINA, UTAH the site of nearly 100 community dwellings. In its original condition the Aztec Ruin itself was a stately sandstone structure, 359 by 2S0 feet, three stories high and built around a rectangular court. The 70,000 specimens already re- covered probably constitute the most com p e t e collection representative of a 1 North prehistoric American culture. XfJ&f zz&xiCo By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN UIi national monuments a hundred years from now will be numbered among the priceless possessions of the American people. At present they are pretty much neglected, both by the federal government and by the people. There are 30 or more In charge of the Interior department - w anq eongresg gives the national park opyjjyyservice but $12,500 to care for all of 4 them. Visitors to the 18 where records were kept cumbered but 212,826 last season. But that is because the people know almost nothing about the national monuments. Some day these national monuments will be made easily accessible and fixed up ; then the people will flock to them. For all of them are well worth seeing and many of them are among the wonders of the world. With national parks and national forests and national monuments, etc., etc., the public Is naturally mixed up on whats what. Heres the right of that: There are 19 national parks, each established by a separate act of congress and all in charge of the national park service of the Interior department. Primarily they contain scenic features of national Importance, though two Hot Springs in Arkansas and Platt In Oklahoma are medicinal. They are kept as far as possible in their original wild state and are wild life sanctuaries. They are protected against commercialism. Familiar names in the national park system are Yellowstone, Yosergite, Rocky Mountain and Grand Canyon. Lafayette, on the coast of Maine, is the only scenic national park east of the Mississippi. Congress will not purchase land for national park purposes and the only public lands are in the West. Lafayette was citizens. presented to the nation by There are six national military parks Gettysburg and Vicksburg are familiar examples under control of the War department. There are approximately 153 national forests, under control of the forest service of the Department of Agriculture. They were established for scientific lumbering and for grazing and were The originally purely commercial propositions. Agricultural department, however, In Its persistent efforts to get control of the national parks, has set up recreational features in many national forests in competition with the national parks. NaNow we come to the national monuments. tional Landmarks would be a more fitting designation. Previous to 1906 the United States had no provision for the establishment of national monuments. Public Insistence became so great for .the protection of natural wonders from vandalism that in 1906 the Act for the Preservation of American Antiquities was passed by congress. T'his act provides for the punishment of vandalism and for permits to excavate and collect. Section 2 of the act reads: That the President of the United States Is hereby . public-spirite- d to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures and other objects of historic or scientific Interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the government of the United States to be national monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which In all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected. Under this act about 50 national monuments are cow established. About 30 are In charge of the national park service and about 15 under control of the forest service. The War department controls three. Exact figures cannot be given as 'changes are constantly occurring. Of those controlled by the forest service the largest is Mount Olympus in Washington, which is a region of mountains, forests and glaciers afid the home of the Olympic elk. Bandelier In New Mexico contains vast numbers of prehistoric ruins and Is presumably slated for national park honors. Bryce Canyon in Utah of which more later Is an eroded canyon of 7,440 authorized. In his discretion, cliff-dwell- er acres. The 1923 report of Director Stephen T. Mather of the national park service to the secretary of the Interior gives in addition to Devil's Tower. El Morro, and Petrified Forest of which more later the following s the list of the national monuments under his charge. They have been grouped by this writer. The list: A7VZ02YX- - F&HteZZZEZD Montezuma Castle, Arizona, 1906, prehistoric cliff dwelling, 160 acres. Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1907, numerous pueblos and cliff dwellings, 20,629 acres. Navajo, Arizona, 1909, prehistoric pueblos and cliff dwellings, 360 acres. 1923, prehlstorlo tow- Hovenweep, ers, pueblos and cliff dwellings, 286 acres. Tumacacorl, Arizona, 1908, ruin of Seventeenth century Franciscan mission, 10 acres. Gran Qulvira, New Mexico, 1909, ancient pueblo and early Spanish mission, 160 acres. Casa Grande, Arizona, prehistoric relic, 480 acres. Yuca House, Colorado, 1919, prehlstorlo relic, 10 acres. Aztec Ruin, New Mexico, 1923, prehistoric pueblo of 500 rooms, 5 acres. Pipe Spring, Arizona, 1923, old stone fort and spring of pioneer days, 40 acres. J'uir Woods, California, 1908, fine redwood grove, 426 acres. 1 innacles, California, 1908, many spire-lik- e rock forr "tlons, 600 to 1,000 feet high, 2,653 acres. Natural Bridges. Utah, 1908, three very large naturil bridges, 2,740 acres. Rainbow Bridge, Utah, 110, height 309 feet, span 278 fn-- t, 160 acres. Sitka, Alaska, 1910, park of historic association, HUfiim totem poles, 57 acres. Colorado, Colorado, 1911, wonderful example of erosion, many lofty monoliths, 13,883 acres. Papago Saguaro, Arizona, 1914, characteristic desert flora and many pictographs, 1,940 acres. Lewis and Clark Cavern, Montana, 1908, immense limestone cave, 160 acres. Shoshone Cavern, Wyoming, 1909, large limestone cave, 210 acres. Dinosaur, Utah, 1915, deposits of fossil remains, 80 acres. Fossil Cyad, South Dakota, 1922, deposits of plant fossils, 320 acres. Capulin Mountain, New Mexico, 1916, cinder cone of geologically recent formation, 681 acres. Katmai, Alaska, 1918, volcanic phenomena, Including "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, 1,940 acres. Verendrye, North Dakota, 1917, Includes Crow-hig- h Butte, from which the famous French exrl plorer first saw territory, 253 acres. Scott's Bluff, Nebraska, 1919, point of hlstorio Interest in winning of the West, 2,053 acres. Pages of interesting matter could be written about these national monuments. Take, for example, those of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. They Illustrate the history of the American Southwest from the prehistoric times of the cliff dwellers down through the many years of frantic searching for gold by the Spanish soldiers and the colonizing and proselyting by the Spanish Cortez conquered Mexico for Spain In priests. 1519-2It was soon looted. The Spaniard then turned his search for gold toward Peru which is another story and toward the unexplored wilderness to the North. The air was full of northern treasure myths El Dorado, the gilded man, and a whole people clothed In gold; the Seven Cities of Cibola, with their golden domes; Qulvira, the city of gold. Side by side soldier and priest invaded the desert. Each despised the other; each used the other. Coronados expedition from Mexico In 1540 that penetrated as far as Kansas Is one of the most romantic In all history. Gran Qulvira was once the flourishing pueblo city nf Tabira, believed to be Qulvira by the Spaniards. It was discovered in 1581 by Francisco Banchez de Chamuscado. Francisco de Acedevo founded the mission in 1628. The Apaches wiped it out about 1670. The ancient pueblo held about 1,500. The great stone church was built In 1644. Both still stand In this ghost city of the long ago. Montezuma Castle is one of the, relics of the prehistoric people called cliff dwellers and is very old. It Is a communal house of 25 rooms, built In a shallow cave In the face of a lofty cliff. Casa Grande (jGreat House) is a prehistoric mystery. It was already a ruin when Fray Marcos discovered it in 1539. It is a large building of a natural concrete called culeche, smoothly plastered within. It stands in a large compound of outlying buildings enclosed in a rectangular wall. Aztec Ruin was presented to the nation by Archer M. Huntington of the American Museum of Natural History. It Is being extensively excavated and restored. Centuries before Columbus one of the richest centers of prehistoric civilization was the valley of the Amirnas river in northwestern New Mexico. There, within the radius of a single mile vast mounds of earth and fallen stone mark Utah-Colorad- , trans-Mlssou- 1. ' Mount Katmai, a big Alaskan volcano, blew off Its head In 1912, covered a vast peninsula with slag and darkened the skies all over the world with The explosion dust. also created the "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, one of tha wonders of the world. It Is live volcanle ground, cracked by Assures and pitted by millions of fumaroles of every hue jhich bubble and belcfc and send up steam and stnoke. And so It goe Each na 1 1 o n a 1 monument lias its own story. And new national monuments are being created. One of the newest Is Carlsbad Cave It In New Mexico. has been only partly explored but Is stated to surby experts far Cave Mammoth pass in size and In magnificence and variety The of decoration. tha to addition latest list of monuments is the Craters of the Moon, In Idaho, where 40 square miles have been set aside by President Coolldge. ,It Is a lava wonderland, with cones, tunnels, caves and all sorts of twisted and contorted forms of hardened volcanic flow. Of the national monuments chosen for Illustration Bryce Canyon has just been given national Utah park honors. A bill for its creation as the National park was passed In the closing hours of the last session of congress. Its feature Is a box canyon three miles long and two miles wide, cut 1,000 feet Into the Paunsaugunt plateau of southeastern Utah. There Is a wonderful variety of erosional form, which are painted In every color, shade and tint of the- spectrum reds, pinks, creams, tans, lavenders, purples, blues, greens, chocolates and whites. It takes high rank nmong natural wonders. The act provides that before Bryce Canyon becomes Utah National park, all lands In the area must be conveyed to the United States. Utah and the Union Pacific own 640 acres. The Petrified Forest contains the most wonderful collection of petrified trees in the world. These trees lie In three groups, which really are not forests at all, for most of the trunks were washed to their present positions on an eroded plain by prehistoric floods from forests far away. Many of the trunks exceed 100 feet In length. One log, 111 feet long, bridges a canyon 45 feet wide. The state of mineralization of the wood almost places It among the precious stones. Not only are chalcedony, opals and agates on view but even jasper and onyx. The Devils Tower Is an extraordinary mass of Igneous rock and Is one of the most conspicuous features of the Black Hills region of Wyoming. It has been a landmark from prehistoric times. First there Is the level plain, then a rounded wooded hill 600 feet high and on top of that the tower, 600 Its sides feet high and a mile In circumference. are fluted by great columns which stand perpendicular, except where they flare out at the bjise and In at the top. These columns, about 0 feet In diameter, are mostly pentagonal, but some are four-sideand some El Morro National monument Is a landmark to thrill a good American, Two enormous connected d eroded sandstone rise abruptrocks of ly from the arid plain. One suggests a castle and Is called El Morro. The other is called Inscription Rock because it bears priceless historical records. For nearly four centuries ago these walls echoed the clank of the steel harness of Conqulstadores There and the prayers of Franciscan Martyrs. was a spring there and a shallow cave and soldier and priest turned aside to them from the old Zunl trail. And there they cut their names and the why and wherefore of their comings and goings. An inscription perhaps as Important as any Is this, cut by Don Juan de Onate 14 years before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock: Paso por aqul da adelantado don Juan de onate del descubrlmiento de la mar del sur a 16 el April - six-side- d varl-colore- del 1606. Passed by here the provincial chief Don Juan de Onate from the discovery of the South Sea on the 16th of April 1606. This approximately fixes the date of the founding of Santa Fe, as It is known Onate fixed his capital there upon his return from the Gulf of California. Scarcely less Interesting Is the Inscription, herewith reproduced, by Don Diego de Vargas Zapata Lujan Ponce de Leon: Aqul estaba el Genl Dn Do de Vargas quien a nestra santa fe y la real corona todo el nueva Mexico a su costa ano de 1692. Here was the General Don Diego de Vargas, who conquered to our holy faith and the royal crown all New Mexico, at his own expense, year of 1692. The Indians had risen against the Spaniards In Santa Fe in 1680, massacred them and driven them out, and destroyed as far as possible all traces of civilization and Christianity. For twelve years It was they enjoyed their ancient independence. Diego de Vargas who reconquered the region in eon-quls- to 1G93. There are more than 50 of these Inscriptions They contain names great in those times Nieto, who escorted the first missionaries to Zunl in 1029; Lujan, who avenged the murder of Fray Francisco Letrado in 1632; Archuleta, Uriharri and so op down into the first half of the Eighteenth century. Where In all the world is there a more fascinating historical relic than Inscription Rock? News Notes From All Parts of UTAH HUSBAND SAID WHY NOTTRY IT I Salt Lake City. LeRoy Jones, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Jones of Magna, is in the L. D. S. Hospital suffering from injuries to the head and body received when he was struck by an automobile in Magna. The car, which is said to have borne a California license plate, continued on its way without stopping. Ogden. The valuation of property in Weber county wa3 reduced as a result of the blanket reduction of 15 per cent voted by the county commissioners upon improved Wife Said She Would. Result, Lydia ELPinkhams Vegetable Compound Made Her Well and Strong East Hardwick, Vt. Last winter I was not able to do any work at all. I had backache, head- (iche, side ache, and was sick all the time for six months. We read about Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegeta- ble Compound in the newspapers, and my husband said to me, Why dont you try farm and orchard land recently, acit? So I saidl would, and he went and got cording to the compilation made by me a dozen bottles. County Clerk L. A. Van Dyke. It has done me more Logan. Governor Charles R. Ma-be- y good than I can ever tell, and my friends of Utah, Governor C. C. Moore say, What have you done to yourself? of Idaho, President Ileber J. Grant You look so well 1 tell them it is the Compound that makes me so of the L. D. S. church and Mayor Vegetable well and There is no use to sufJohn A. Crockett of Logan will be fer with strong. backache and pains. I will the speakers at the big pioneer meet- tell every one what it has done for me. " -- Mrs. Fred. Primo, Route No. 2, East ing to be held in the Logan taber, nacle on the second day of the Cache Hardwick, Vermont. Housewives make a great mistake in valley centennial celebration accordallowing themselves to become so ill ing to an anouneement made recently that it is well-nig- h impossible for them by officials of the celebration. The to attend to their household duties. In a recent countrv-wid- e celebration is to be held in Logan canvass of 'July 24 and 25 to commemorate the purchasers of Lydia E. Pinkhams Veg100 anniversary of the discovery of etable Compound, 98 out of every 100 report they were benefited by its use. Cache Valley by Jim Bridger. For sale by druggists everywhere. Salt Lake City. The eighth annual ram sale of the National Encouraging Industry association will be held at The governor general of Madagascar the North Salt Lake stockyards on lias granted to a and August 25, 26, and 27, according to Frenchdependencies a concession of company an announcement made by Professor 2.47 acres) hectare is hectares (a F. R. Marshall, secretary of the Na on the west coast of Madagascar for tional Woolgrowers association. the growing of vegetable textile fibers Provo. Gunmen held up the Cob- to be used In the manufacture of bags. blestone service station, at American If, within four years, the grantees Fork an fled with the contents of construct a factory with a minimum the cash register. capacity of 625,000 bags annually, an additional 25,000 hectares will be put Ogden. The 1924 wheat crop is a at their dlspostal, according to report little more than 50 per cent normal from Consul James G. Carter, in Utah and about 50 per cent of a normal yield in Idaho, it was revealed when grain and milling dealers Experience a Good Teacher from the two states met in the annuGuest Why do you believe lu secal conference called by the Ogden ond sight, major? Grain exchange. Major Darby (in an impressive Ogden, The apricot and peach whisper) Becouse I fell in love at in Weber crops county are doing ex- first sight. Punch. ceptionally well this season, with little poor fruit noted, according to word received at the state department of Are you dragging around day after agriculture from L. Marsh, deputy Are you day with a dull backache? inspector. Apples in the county are tired and lame mornings subject to also reported in good condition. headaches, dizzy spells and sharp, stabbing pains. Then theres surely someSalt Lake, Telegraph advices from Probably its kidney thing wrong. Philadelphia received here announcweakness! Dont wait for more serious ed that Utah has been honored kidney trouble. Get back your health and keep it. For quick relief get National of Association by the plenty of sleep and exercise and use Attorneys General, which is holding Doan's Pills, a stimulant diuretic to Us annual the kidneys. They have helped thouconvention there, in the sands and should he'p you. Ask your election of Harvey H. Cluff, attorney neighbor! general for Utah, as president of the A Utah Case association for the coming year. John Bradham, 139 N. 4th West Ogden, Eynon & Winger contracSt., Payeon, Utah, tors of Jackson, Wyo. were the low rays: I had sharp, shooting p bidders on the hard surfaced road to through my he built between Jackson and the My back was sore and when Snake river bridge, three and a half and I stooped I could miles. Eynon & Winers hid was hardly straighten. I felt weak all and the highest, $33,249.72, was over and my kidsubmitted by Ross & Bean of Richneys acted too freely. I used a box of Doans Pills field, Utah. and they gave me wonderful results. My kidneys acted normally at once Ogden, The Weber County Farm and my back felt splendid." Wool-growe- rs 25,-00- 0 Get Back Your Health! $26,-C07.- Bureau federation has filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk. This amalgamates all local bureaus. Martin P. Brown of Roy is president of the new organization, C. A. Groberg of Farr West, vice president and Louis Wangsgard of Huntsville, secretary and treasurer. Salt Lake, Sixteen farm bureaus in Sanpete county- have filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, through the Utah state farm bureau. The bureaus were organized in the following towns: Ephraim, Manti, Milbum, Centerfield, Mayfield, Chester, Freedom, Fountain Green, Sterling, Spring City, Mt. Pleasant, Wales, Fairview and Fayette. Salt Lake, Holders of oil and gas prospecting permits allowing them to seek oil upon public lands in Utah may, if the secretary of the interior secs fit, have the time for drilling to a certain depth or completing drilling extended for a period not to exceed three years, according to word received by Eli F. Taylor, register of the local United States - Clarion-West-vie- Ax-tel- l, land office. Salt Lake, Another addition has been made to the list of Utahs resources Utah timber. At least it has brought another new industry to The Excelsior Products Salt Lake. company, a Colorado firm, will es tablish a factory in Salt Lake to make excelsior and ether similar wood products from aspen timber found near Fairview on the Marys vale branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad. Roosevelt C. C. Larson of Roose velt secured the prize fish of the sea son from the Duchesne river the other day. It was taken jiear Ouray, measured forty-on- e inchesrin length and weighed approximately twenty-eigh- DOANS STIMULANT DIURETIC TO THE KIDNEYS Foiter-MilbuCo Mfg. Chem., Buffalo, N. Y. Hydroplane Patrols patroling the forests of northwestern Ontario from White river on the east to the Manitoba boundary on the west this season, and considerable reduction In the ground staff of fire rangers will be made as a result of a new program decided upon by the Ontario department of lands and forests. The hydroplanes will be commanded by expert pilots and will be used extensively in patroling and reporting the presence of bush fires. in The Poor Victim Mrs. Yearwedd(during spat) I see now that as far as marrying is concerned I might have done a lot better. Husband And I must suffer for your lack of judgment. All Incoming aliens at American ports must be examined by doctors of the United States public health Relief Sure FOR INDIGESTION 6 Bell-ant- . Hot water Sure Relief OL-AN-S 25$ AND 75t PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Retain tlie Charm t pounds. Salt Lake Lloyd Garrison who has been aistant state engineer under the present administration was appointed by Governor Charles R. Meby to be state engineer to fill the caused by the resignation of R. E. Caldwell. will be engaged Seven hydroplanes Of Girlhood Gear Sweet Skin Cuticura Win Help You SAVE YOUR EYES! Gae Dr. Thompsons USf Hyewater Buy at your druggist's or Kiver.Tnjy.N.Y. Bookie. h,': , |