Show I Ir r A Anteater M Arch Near Willow Spring Sing M l Visitors are always welcome to our I camp the very purpose of the work is isto isto to make as many familiar with the scenic beautIes of the area as possible and thus to advertise it For as one I sees and becomes pleased others will wish to view that beauty and a ne never never- er- er erI ending chain is formed Thus is form form- formed formed ed tourist travel I We want as many citizens as possible to acquaint themselves with what they I have at theIr front doorstep so to toI I speak and as they are impressed that god Impression will spread until in due I measure Moab will benefIt with the tourist traffIc WhIch makes for pros pros- prosperIty prosperity On one visit of the family of Editor L L Taylor accompanied by Mrs You You- YouVon YouVon Von they were taken to the Anteater Arch which is 15 a little miniature charm catch v arch suitable for the mantelpIece so diminutIve IS it and andI I only four hundred hundl ed yards from Willow I Spring camp We are familiar m in the area with magnifIcent arches of scores of feet span and thousands and thousands of tons of rock mass in them but Ant Ant- Anteater Anteater eater Arch IS no taller than the young young- youngest est daughter of Mr and Mrs Taylor Mrs YouVon rests her hand on the head of the stone animal Seen from the sIde thIS small arch exactly depicts an anteater crouched on a sloping rock mass with his fore forefeet forefeet feet drawn up under him his right hip broken away with the actIOn of erOSIon its long neck bent downward to bring the snout to a mass of ants on the tiny hill the creature Is feeding upon A crack in the face may with the slightest of imagination become the animal ammal s eye the shape of the head is correct and the pose natural This is one of the oddities of a very interesting region From to miniature from the giant arch to a dwarf from arches one sees m in awe of the vast forces of nature to work on so huge a scale and then step to this tiny watch charm Is enchant enchant- enchanting enchanting ing A walk of five minutes takes on to it And in every detail this diminutive diminutive tive example is the exact counterpart of its big brothers brothers-a wind blown arch caused by the cutting action of wind wind- windblown windblown blown sand WhICh removes grain by grain over a span of years too great to tobe tobe be compared with human chronology When the Pyramid of was a- a this little arch was then it- it itself itself self begun the outcropping of sand sand- sEone rock was being cut by bv nature and the process has continued steadily is continuing now until it and the ith Great Pyramid of Egypt wi will bOth be reduced to n a crumbling mass of sand Dinosaur Bones on Display A half haIr mile east of s Wolf cabin Keith Wright dIscovered some dinosaur bones the photo shows Keith sitting down studying hIS finds In his hand he holds a end compare that bone in his hand to the splint bone of a horse which is the corresponding corres- corres corresponding bone and a comparison of the sIze of the hu huge e creature which once walked over those hills may be gained A sized good splint bone from troma froma a horse is 15 not much larger than a him him- 1 I r I I I II II I I I II I II I I f 1 y r I I II I II I r I Ir r t tl I II l I JACKS ll IY berman bermans berman's pencil and ard thIS bone Keith IS holding is a sized food handful Along the lad S leg are three verte- verte vertebra vertebra bra from the dinosaur the two out out- outside outside side ones are now on display in The I Times Independent office cement cemented d to- to together together gether To show the relative size the arrow points to the corresponding ver- ver verI vertebra I I tebra of a year old bull Just imagine how much bigger than that bull was the tailed long lizard creature crea- crea I ture whose huge vertebra are seen nearly the SIze of the young mans man's waist I The hollow of each bone in life wa was filled wIth cartilage gIving a yielding mass whereby from the artIculations the creature e could bend hIS back bone and whip that long length of tall tail abOut lust as the lizard doe does today But in his case that back bone was a dozen times as bi big as an ox's You will note on the right hand bone a stub of a pro pro- Ion f prof stub carried a spine Just as an ox's does or 01 other creature loUt out in the interval of f years ars that spine had broken We vv e found a few but search earh failed to find I of them that one single spine could safely be restored When fully assembled V th all the spines and pro pro- protuberances protuberances the complete would be nearly as large as a small center table In the home Ribs articulated with those vertebra and a huge barrel of a belly rounded out below below-a cavern cavern- cavernous cavernous ous depth which it was the creature s constant task to keep filled with nib nib- nibbling bling savory young twigs branches roots from flom below the surface water and Continued on page four s 4 d ANTEATER ARCH f Continued from fIrst page any ny of the lush vegetation which then luxuriated lu in that tropical semi clime Streams dried up vegetation failed th thO slime e lumbering ungainly dinosaur found md eIf unab unable e to gad about to fIll that huge and yawning cavern within hi hip hIs body pantry so to speak and gradually with climatic changes and loss of food he entirely disappeared from the earth No more of his kind exit But about the dose close of his rein reign a little zebra like animal anima was nibbling DIbbling off the grasses running about on five lve toes as he had to run farther upon and farther for his meals he lie got up on his toes and today he runs around on his middle finger nail and is called a horse horses s Perms Perkins Gilman says in In This Our World I I Then was once a little animal No bigner than a fo fox And on fIve toes he scampered I Over Tertiary rocks They called hIm I And they called hIm very small And they thou thought t hIm of no value value- When they trough h of him at all I For the lumpish oil olf And so 0 slow low Were the neavy lowI I In the days of long ago Said ittle I m going to be i 1 home And on my mIddle finger nail nails To run rum my earthly course I m going to have a flowIng tail I m going to have a crane I m going to stand fourteen hands high On the plain i The was horrified The was shocked And they chased young Eohippus But he skipped away and mocked They laughed enormous laughter And they groaned groans Said they You always were as small And mean as now we see And that s conclusIVe eVIdence That you re always going to be What Be a great tall handsome beast With hoofs to gallop on Why you d have to change your nature SaId the They considered him disposed of And retired with gait serene For that was the way they argued In the early Eocene As the camel had to hump himself to get by so little Eohippus had to get getup getup up on his toes and today Marv Turn Turn- bow rides a nag up over those very selfsame hills where the dinosaur glanced with scorn at a little insignificant insignificant cant mammal But the bl bid fellow went wider under while the scampering toed five little fellow just bunt built up until he be- be became became came a whoever hors rode a dinosaur Tacks Jacks Mummy l We didn't find in the Arches a real live mummy one ne that could talk In- In Indian Indian dian glibly but Jack Jaek YouVon did find finda a rock one Look at the flattened nose and the come hither look In the eye and that smug mouth WIth the under under- lip protruding like a kid pouting aft after r ra a visit to the woodshed Yes it Is a the mummy left hand edge of Turret Arch In the Arches sec sec- sector sector tor of the Monument and it will have to suffIce as archeological evidence of the eXIstence of the Indian there for lack of better tat rial |