Show QUEER queen FISH beds covering hundreds of square miles round in colorado superintendent W 0 uart hart of the northern division of the colorado worlds fair mineral department recently returned from a trip in the northwestern part of the th state estate during his absence ence says the rocky mountain news mr hart made investigations leadin leading to one of the most remarkable geological ical discoveries cov co ever known in the fish beds co covering verin bund hundreds reds of square miles in northwestern colorado arc brought to light and cannot fail to awaken a great interest in scientific circles the beds so far as traced by mr hart extend a dist distance anee of one hundred and fifty miles in the region aerion 0 of tho tha green i liver iver country and when n traced to points more than one hundred miles mile toward the interior of the state scientists have known of the existence of primeval dc deposits posits of fish invy in wyoming borning ning but for the first time a discovery of a similar character is reported in this state the beds are ara one hundred and fifty to two hundred test feet thick to the ordinary observer their origin 0 would remain forever a mystery how untold millions of fish could be piled in distinct layers layen over a large larg area earea of country which is now five thousand to ten thousand f fact act above sea level is a problem which mi might ht sta stager 0 er the most profound geologist 0 after careful investigation vesti gation mr hart has arrived at a theory which at least appears plausible according to his theory there was a time when the region region of the fish deposits formed firmed the shore of a salt water ocean As the tides swept the waters against the rocky shores marshes were formed on the opposite side of the kocl rocky y barrier the tides surged against the barrier with such cuch force as to throw the fish into the shallow waters giving to the heated temperature of tho the air the water in the marshes evaporated before the tide again retura returned ed leaving 0 the fish to e expire entre in the mud tho the next how flow brou brought 4 bt a new supply of eshand after many centuries the beds of today to day were formed tho the deposit of each return of the tide Is as distinctly marl marked ceLl in the cliff J and on the sides of the canyons of the mountain streams tho the deposit was raised to its present eleva elevation tolon by the same hidden bidden forces which formed the mountains |