| Show The Scenic Appeal of Arches National Monument Dy By FRANK Archaeologist Arches Monument C W 1 A Party I Whatever may be the beauty of the arches in mid summer sun certaInly they are arc more beautiful with the back back- I background back I ground of the distant La Sal moun- moun tam snow capped in a inter lOne One view from the entrance just a few afew feet from the Double Arch Is most entrancing In the Immediate foreground Is seen the tumbled Cd uprisIng of the sandstone forming I the cliff anus alls out of the arches have been eroded In the background the of the La rising 13 feet I from sea level beautifully sun touched with Ith n a low sun of mid mid- midwinter winter and the deeR deen blue of the sky I above In the immediate foreground tao t arches arc plainly visible daylight showing through them The oct coLt easy gras S of the slick rock below with the buff of 01 the sandstone of the arches themselves and then above that In sharp modulated contrast et toned and ed by the distance the steep mass of the La towering majestically to toan toI an altitude vying with the highest I peaks In utah this all forms a harmonious ham har- v hole beautiful be to behold summer er the view may be In the sum sum-I sum sum- mer it Is even more pleasing in the thelow low ow mid winter sun with its softenIng effects I The readers Of this paper have had r if pt u f i I I i I fr L Li LI TIlE THE ELEPHANT I thea to them before belore scenes of the arches a but even so a moment must be spent on the beauty of the Double I Arch buttress Here hut I but but- tress tao t arches extend upward and across each In II a different direction there is no similar thing In utah so i tar far sotar as I know There are other arches many of which I have seen but I none like the Double Arch of Arches National Monument ArchesI I Then leaving the Double Arch one comes next to Archeological Cave in Zeke Johnon dug out squash inI I rind burled buried cedar bark ancient Indian artifacts and an many evidences of the former occupation of this case e by pre I historic man Next one comes to an arch In the making for here ero erosion lon has been arrested as It Were vere on purpose to show showman showman I man how the thIng was done The arch Is In the making It Is today from the cliff wall only a few tew feet so narrow In fact that one can can- cannot riot not see daylight through It but the shaft of the sun falls through and I andI lightens up the sIde walls between cut I and arch One more tick of nature J I clock another 25 years a second of time Lime geologically and the arch will b be unshed finished Toda Todal It is a suspended op- op operation operation to show man how cunningly J rr r r k rk a j 4 t 1 THE DEE BEE HIVE nature works Be ond that Is Massive Arch with witha a foundation of humped and Irregular Irregular- IrregularlY lY laid arid and folded sandstone so closely resembling artificial masonry as to bring forth an ejaculation to that ef- ef effect feet by b every beholder Seeing I Things I sin am one of those unfortunates en- en doved vivid vi Imagination and I Isee see things with ith only a hint nature furnIshes such a hint In Elephant Arch picture presented herewith This pie pie- tune ture Is taken from the ern ca of Ar- Ar Cave up a few sc score re of feet teet from the floor of the base line of the cliffs From this height an elephant with eye In head trunk Immersed In D a acone cone of fodder daylight through an arch between trunk and Is In plain a larger largey arch is 13 beta bet een front leI leg arid and rear leg at a certain point light may be seen through both at once but no picture may be taken from that point Some In seeing this are forced to exclaim at once of the similarIty to an elephant In t oJ freak of erosion Nor is the l strained to see the likeness Jac Jack YouVon and I stood and led ledat ledat at the exact likeness of a mummy on the fae fac of a cliff side long eye I lancin back nt at the In rUd r long I dead one long upper lip hp and mouth so plain and so EO natural that we both long at the similarity The photo of thIs not yet developed ofa In another place th exact Image of a grizzled Spanish buccaneer with pirate cep a la Ia Liberty style close cloce set mustache and grizzled beard below belowA A rim and determined mouth as one who force a 11 to walk the gang plank with as much as others breakfast would order waffles for break break- fast This lace face Is just at the fly camp here we are arc as S this Is written The face Is fully forty feet teet high and so striking that one sees It at glance introduce Oh and then I auld like to intro intro- duce Independent to the readers of the TImes Inde- Inde pendent My Aunt Emma Be sure to get the aunt In that for tor she frowned severely on being called Aunt Emmie Aunt Emma In all her high brow puritanical smugness is there on the cliff clift slightly dISdainful of mere mor- mor mortality hIgh bulging brow hair tidied as Boston hith borns are vont to bob bobIt It and herself with all her aristocratic was ImmortalIzed In stone that all allmay allmay may view and be Impressed with her smugness Aunt Emma is but a few ArchOn from the Double Arch On the way to the Arches I a per per- feet Bee Hive Utah s state emblem rn be ocen ceen A picture of the Bee Hive Is show sho shon n herewith Ds J M h took meo me thiS week to lils ranch lIed called The Wolf Cabin Ranch a half balf mile from which I found a couple of hundred pounds of dinosaur remains These were badly weathered but one good tall tail vertebra was w gotten which snoa ed the channel In iii the bone through which the spinal cord passed when the bone was wiggled In the ancient animal s 5 taU tail a small cross section of a rib with the honey honey- comb honeycomb ork of the inner bone plainly vIsible what may be identifIed as a portion of a phalange and best of all allone allone one fragment about 11 Inches In diameter and about 13 Inches high the whole piece weighing oay ay 60 to 75 pounds This Is no doubt a of one of the large leg bones near a joint Unfortunately it is badly weathered eted ered This deposIt of dinosaur bones may be seen from the last easterly arch distant only about 2 2 1 to 3 miles mUes from the arches arches-a nice horseback ride to and Ira fro Custodian J 7 M has charge of the bones left there for tor visitors to see none of whIch may be taken betaken away There is a penalty mar marbe 0 of six or six months In the hoosegow for snitching any pal pait t of then them off the public domain so when you go do not under any circumstances try to steal one oneA oneA A Beautiful Delicate Arch About a mile east of Wolf Cabin Ranch Is n a very pretty arch of pillars delicately carved uprising at once vertically for nearly sIXty feet then arching oer o to form the complete arch This Is by far the most delicately arch In the entire area The archis pan lies east and v eat cst ard ald the arch is presented full vi w only when one takes I a southerly position Where the Double Arch e exceeds any of the others I is ira In the re PC of a double span ln from crom a sIngle Lingle buttress this bridge exceeds all of the others In sheer rising of each leg of the thea II a- a Ii 11 and the delicacy of the carving Tn Ta one place on the east leg the pillar Is almost cut In tv two 0 Five miles mUes away tram from the rim of Salt Valley I first saw the shadow of this arch ISit on the cliff wall all so stupendous IS it and so clearly cut In the glasses that shadow was very distinct and distance formed a broad line whIch at that die dis- lance tance pierto seemed a straight bar from pier to cliff wall It looks precisely to borrow the terminology of the cow camps like a 11 bow legged s I at the top for at the top a bar or band of stone set sets off the arch exactly ex like the waist line The entire area Is replete with In- In Interest interest terest On one trail leading dov down from this bloomers arch Mr showed me a petrified tree fullY three feet In diameter and us as much as twenty t five feet of It exposed one end looked s as If a woman oman had out outa outa a lea fe chips from It or a lazy chore bo had dug out II a half bushel of chips ere he gave up his but ork a otherwise other the tree is unbroken One larga larg limb now md bG be seen here a limb now gone once took off from the main mainI I trunk and a few feet hJ higher her up a smaller limb also had once been on the tree sceniC value arches back back- background background ground ancIent Indian evidences dino- dino dinosaur bones end and petrified trees what |
