Show MASTODON The Tile famed CARVING I l NOT RUINED AFTER ALL I The Tile famed I l p pictograph of ofa ofa ofa a mastodon located Km rn n th the canyon cliffs cUlls down the Colo Cob ratio do river four lour miles front Irom Moab l Is alive aUve ant anti ana well after a all Following three weeks of nationwide Publicity to the effect that first the drawing drawing ft had J been l by blast blast- ng and later that the destruction de de- of the artifact was the rc result ot of a nat natural ral rockslide rock rock- slide sime It now develops that the mastodon picture Is Intact Just as Bt fit has been for un sin known centuries The false report of the of-the the ruin of the drawing was made In lii the best of fa faith On March l Marchi 14 harry y Reed of Moab and Ralph ph 5 City i A. A M adger Badger o of Salt Lake hiked down the river to photograph the drawing Arriving Ar Ar- riving at what they believed to be the proper location thie they found found the thc face of the cliff had been shattered by bv what they thought to have been a dynamite explosion It had been a number of years since Mr Reed had visited the mastodon but after a thorough thor thor- ough search he became convinced con con- vinced that the famed at attraction attraction at- at traction had maliciously been destroyed In Its Issue of two weeks ago The Times Times-Inde pendent published a story re regarding regarding regarding re- re garding the discovery by the two men and this story was wu picked up by other oilier papers a and press associations and amt publicized throughout the country County and federal officers visited the RIte anti and after careful investigations expressed the thc opinion that the cliff had fallen down through natural cau causes s and not through blasting Ace Turner who had visit ed ell the pictograph as a boy piloted two officers to the scene of the lie He entertained some doubt that the cliff where the slide occurred occurred oc oc- was vas the thc correct location loca loca- tion of the drawing To satisfy satis satis- fy his own curiosity he made another trip down town the river Sunday and searched along the cliffs for some distance He lIe found the mastodon undisturbed un un- disturbed about a quarter of ofa a mile upstream from front the the- rockslide lie He states that the localities of the two places are very similar and that Mr l Reed had made a very natural na na- tural mistake While a slight crimson hue may be discernible on the faces of Mr l Reed and Th The Times Independent we are consoled by the thc fact that the Moab mastodon pictograph Is still in existence to intrigue the curiosity and study of sd- sd |