Show ju THE ANCIENT INHABITANTS OF THE SAN JUAN VALLEY From a of Utah Bulletin by Dean Byron As man becomes more intimately acquainted with the formation of the earth's he realizes more forcibly how many ages have elapsed since the world emerged from apparent chaos on its march toward the goal of its present condition as a field for the development of the human Slowly and surely the wise Organizer has worked out his great ever giving time for changed conditions to become adjusted and harmonized and adapted to the maintenance of the higher forms of life that were continuously Every line in the book of nature points to the gradual development of the earth's form and the life it So the more thoroughly we study the human race and attempt to trace its the more forcibly are we convinced that its complete history starts with primitive life far back in the dim beginnings of things vital and that the creation of as we know is only the last great movement in this So also has the development of man from the time when he first appeared the image of the been a gradual an As he gained courage to raise himself to an erect look upon the sun and the moon as his and the forces about him as capable of becoming his he began an advance that has continued to the present Where conditions have been exceedingly favorable and forces at that seemed to challenge the best thought and effort of the progress has been almost when looked at from this great So we gaze in amazement upon massive structures of the ancient Egyptians and peruse with ever increasing admiration the record of the great wisdom and moral worth of the ancient Hebrews and the Hindus and are charmed by the artistic instinct and the grace of the ancient Greeks all manifestations of the wonderful progress of the human race under most favorable circumstances and But where there were no rich valleys of the the Euphrates and the and no sunny slopes and fertile picturesque plains such as border the eastern the advancement was far and were it not for the influences that have reached out from these more favored centers to awaken the frontiers to greater many more parts of the Old and the New World would be today in an exceedingly primitive state of But the favored spots of Asia and Africa were evidently not the only places in which man stopped lone enough to sit down and think a study his surroundings and utilize them in improving his conditions until he left a lasting impression upon the region of his habitation Parts of America also were favorable for this and have left their record of a man's awakening to a larger In Mexico and Central America a civilization has been uncovered tZ human extends far back into the beginning the development the Here were peoples whose architectural sculptural skill compare very favorably with tZ jf Egypt and who |