Show I IBy Theodore Theodores Theodore's Phenomenon o n. n B By M. M 1 M. M Smith Just one year ear ago o I wrote aril and the thc Duchesne Record published published pub pub- pub pub-I a n short article on the I I I peculiar rumbling rumbling- sounds that i tare are so frequently heard in iii this this' vicinity That I think was the mentioned in ip any auy paper The settlers had often heard it before but hut not no so 80 pronounce pronounced pro pro- and frequent It reSe resembled resembled re re- re- re Se distant thunder or blasting in a mine and provoked pro ok ed little comment lent until last winter and the previous spring Indeed it seems p partial partial par par- r- r to spring and nud winter and ancI andis andis is seldom in midsummer This Iltis winter in November the thc bombardment began beg and continued continued continued con con- daily to the present No Now an and f then hen it it takes H a i day off I have haye failed to hear nn any I reports for a w week ck now That the sounds are of greater volume vol vol- 01 ume and frequency this winter than ever e l before every settler will attest attest- st st. A single report comes to ones one's ears cars He lIe listens listens listens list list- ens and may Ulay count a r dozen shuts shots or explosions before they the cease ccase running about o 5 s seconds apart The sOl sound lId is heard hear at night as ns well One man asserts that he hc had heard hem it so loudly that it frightened his horses Farmers Farm Farm- ers around Rock Hock Creek claim that it often the dishes rattle on the shelves The disturbance seems to be he bemOit most central in and around iff Blacktail mountain perhaps perhaps twenty wiles miles n north rth west vest of The The- odore So much for the sound its habits and location What is isit isit isit it Speculation is rife and everybody everybody ev ev- has a n theory ly Jy one onea way a to determine what it might mig be bc is to analyze the different plausible theories and nd first find out what it is not After thorough investigation in and research interviewing a hundred persons living iving in different different dif dif- ferent sections of the belt of disturbance I have concluded ed and that seems now the prevailing pre ailing opinion that that it is is' not thunder it is not blasting of powder in n any mine wine or tunnel it is not cannonading in ill a n battle battle bat bat- bat I tle tIc for Pres Taft has ims told just I I us that hat we are at peace with all nIl I nations it is not meteoric explosions explosions ex ex- in iu the thc air This is a a. phenomenon without without with with- out a parallel in the known world so far as we have learn learn- ed A Aware ware that the U. U S. S weather bureau is interested in ill inthe inthe the study and publicity of earth arth tremors and acid other stran strange phenomena phenomena phenomena phe phe- I reported this matter to the local weather r people at Salt Lake last fall stating that 1 I thou thought ht I had discovered ered I something new and asked assistance assistance as as- I as-I in running it down into the earth 1 I suggested that the government go send a scientist armed with lith a 1 l fC u tinned on page i 4 |