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Show EXPLORATIONS IN.' UTAH. During the past summer there have been at work in Utah two important government exploring parties under Professors Powell and Thompson. The latter have been at work in middle and southeastern Utah, along the Sevier river and the country to the east nearly to the Colorado. The other party with Professor Powell has been carrying forward the work in a region of country west of the Sanpete river in northeastern Utah, The geographical geographi-cal survey has been extended bv the expansion of a system of triangles from a base line previously established at Gunnsion, making this the base of topographic work. For hypsometric the measurements of heights purposes pur-poses Green Kivercityon the Union Pacific railroad, Salt Lake city, Gunnison Gun-nison and Panewitch, have been used as stations for base barometers; the altitude of tliese points had been previously determined by railroad surveys. sur-veys. During tho ecason, extensive regions of volcanic rock on either side of the Sevier, and on tho eastern side ol the Wasatch and Aquarius plateaus have been surveyed with interesting results. In addition to the geographical geographi-cal and geological work, much has been done in ethnography, especially among Lthe Uinuits arid Seuaritos Indians, and large collections illustrating illus-trating the state of arts have been made. Much additional matter in relation to their languago, mythology, customs and habits has been obtained. ob-tained. An interesting series of facts concerning their method of giving names to tribes and confederacies has been found. The ancient inhabitants in-habitants of the valley of the Colorado, Colo-rado, whose remains have been studied for several years by Professor Powell, have also olairned his attention this year. Mony other ruins have been discovered, some of their ancient picture writings collected, and many of their stone implements found. The professor is now prepared to indicate on his map the position of many scoresof these ancient towns or hamlets ham-lets now fount in ruins on the eastern side of the Colorado, in thevallevsof the Yampa, White, Grand, San Juan and Little Colorado; and on the western side of the Colorado, in the valleys o! the Uiniah, Peicc, San Kafael, Duty Devil, Escalante, Paria and Kanab 1 rivers. Mr. Hillers, the photographer of the expedition, has made a fine series of negatives, one suite of land-acapes land-acapes along the Green another, of the Uintah Indians. Denver News, |