Show mrs andrew somerville motored dove creek saturday she returned sunday evening accompanied by mrs john and her children H S rutledge and daughter edith made a hurried trip up the river to the titus ranch wednesday evening to bring harper rutledge to town who was suffering from a badly infected thumb paul baard and an experienced placer miner from the northwest arrived in town this week with a number of unusually large flakes of gold which they state were extracted from crevices in the rock on upper mill creek while in town they outfitted for a several weeks expedition into that territory to do further development work mr and mrs victor of evanston who are making a tour of the west spent sunday and monday visiting mr and mrs R H dalrymple they left tuesday morning for yellowstone national park mrs and mrs dalrymple were classmates at the university of michigan dr and mrs I 1 W alien and misses luclle and donna ann taylor made a brief fishing trip to the bar A section thursday they brought back with them max taylor and dick alien who had been spending some time on the mountain miss donna ann remained on the mountain with her parents J 0 is able to be about on crutches after his harrowing experience up near the mule shoe bridge several weeks ago at which time his horse threw him off breaking his left hip mr walco was forced to lie out all night in this condition and was not picked up until 10 00 0 clock the following morning the banners of allson mesa pack creek and poverty flat are greatly agitated over the presence of millions of i grasshoppers which have very recently put to an appearance they are devastating va the vegetation at a rapid rate and decisive steps are being taken by the banners to blot out the pest if possible this Is being done by the poison bait method and Is proving successful C A snyder and thos judd had recorded this week in the county recorders office a number of gold placer claims located on allson mesa and on the divide between miners and bachelor basins they state that they have filed on some very promising placer ground and believe that they have found the famous allson mesa lead these gentlemen are understood to have some very prominent connections and it is reported that considerable sid erable development work will be done as soon as water Is available for placer operations mr and mrs prank graham and miss margie myers went to the upper ranch in castle valley last sunday to take billy and betty lee graham that far on their way to the bar A ranch where they will spend their vacation they were met at the castle valley drift fence by albert maxwell who took the children on to the mountain on the way up the river the party saw a large mountain sheep which had come down to water while a number of these animals have been seen from time to time in the river canyon below moab it baa been several years since any have been reported up the river |