Show Famed Utah Landmark Blasted From Canyon Feeling Feeling- ran high Monday as Utah officials and citizens learned o of the dynamiting of oC the famed mastodon pictograph from the Colorado river canyon wall four miles downstream from Moab Grand count county Immediate investigation Is promised by the U. U S S. S bureau of land and management to determine if the vandalism occurred on federal federal federal fed fed- eral land and could result in federal federal federal fed fed- eral prosecution and by the Utah department of publicity and in industrial industrial industrial in- in development Sheriff Sherif J. J J B. B B of Moab also also is gating Destruction of the aboriginal Indian handiwork was discovered by Harry Reed Moab 1 photographer photographer and Ralph A. A Badger Salt Lake real estate man who in intended intended intended in- in I tended to photograph the I graph Arriving at the cliff which is some distance above the bed of the river they were amazed to find the drawing had been obliterated obliterated by an explosive charge I The entire face of the cliff had been blown away and a large larg-e hole blasted into the rock wall where the drawing had been Only a pile of rubble marked the spot that had once been a shrine for scientists and students of prehistoric man Known throughout the world it had caused much speculation because mastodons became extinct some years ago Mr Reed said the vandals apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap d destroyed troyed the pictograph some time within the last Jast five weeks Rains had washed out the j tracks of the culprits hampering the investigation The act of vandalism recalled the destruction of the equally famed Goblet of ot Venus balanced rock formation near Blanding San Juan county last Jast fall Both acts were decried by J. J A. A Theobald P PID I D chairman I feel all authorities in Utah should attempt to prevent such acts act of vandalism and should make a determined effort to bring the guilty parties to prosecution he lie declared The various pictographs pictographs pictographs graphs as well weIl as natural formations formations formations forma forma- of colored rock are our greatest drawing features for tourists tourists tourists tour tour- and should be protected by every force of law Jaw in the country Full Investigation P PI PID I D men will be in Moab this week he said to make a full in investigation investigation investigation in- in and determine what is isto isto I to be done H. H Byron Mock regi regional nal administrator administrator admin admin- bureau of land manage manage- ment said laid he would contact his Moab office at once to investigate If it Is on federal property he said it would likely be a violation of the Antiquities act whereby federal federal federal fed fed- eral authorities can investigate violations of scenic beauty O. O K Clay assistant U. U S. S attorney attorney at at- torney tomey said his office must wait until the case is determined a 8 federal federal fed fed- eral cral violation and referred by the bureau of land management Asks Tighter Laus Lati s II sWords Words II fail to express my abhorrence abhorrence ab- ab of such acts of vandalism vandalism vandalism vandal vandal- ism declared Gus P P. P Backman secreta secretary secretary- Salt Lake City Chamber Chamber Chamber Cham Cham- ber of oC Commerce It must be a psychopathic case If It tightening up our laws will contribute to stopping stopping stopping stop stop- ping this hoodlumism we should certainly put them In force P PI PID I D officials expressed the belief belief belief be be- lief the pictograph was removed for possible sale to a museum rather than Utan destroyed The pictograph carved on the side of the can canyon on face attracted speculation that western hieroglyphics hieroglyphics hieroglyphics hiero hiero- and pictographs might have been the work of Indians of 1000 years ears past |