Show 1 I DRIPPING HOCK ROCK BOTTOMS i 4 L for the benefit of your reader readers and nd inqui inquiring rint friends friend fl I 1 will endea endeavor voi to better explain as to our exact local lly ity the advantages of the ame same and why the name there are many outward expressions hereabouts hereabout on the part of nature that seemingly inight jusufb ua tn ta began will say one thousand yards north of our residence there rises i beautiful symmetrical mound to an elev elevation atlon much higher than thai that of the immediate surroundings that might have served snake jahn and others as a signal station this little mound Is steps across it is in well wall covered with grasses and sage very near this and overlook overlooking irig the bottoms oms spoken of there are huge reefs ladair seemingly pa rifled tannon shells of various dimensions ranging from twenty four inches linches in damester da meter to that of a minnow ball these reefs on either side and in coront of the mound overlooking th the e country from the north swin swing 9 eastward and on around to the south and south southwest est thus making an ideal place to sight eight the enemy from the east if all this bespeaks bespeak il one time hostile relations it is then but left to the reasoning of the reader was it of pre age or an indication of subterranean effort and thus vel verity ing jules verne but let all this be ai air it may here we are domiciled in a halt half dugout dug out with two springs of splendid water on the premises at a point halt half way between the cragg road that cute cuts off twelve miles from jensen to rangley this valley of liberal dimensions begins nh the cragg vernal road at a point where here frank foster has filed a home stead thence with meandering meanderings southward passing the writer at four miles in ileff three farther tarther down the stream to the coal mines and here crossing the new dew cut off road spoken of thence to the white river we are in the center of a vast grazing territory many degrees warmer in winter than other locations hence sheep and cattle winter near us the bottoms throughout the summer are am covered with a mat of f beautiful green and we have haire no moe mosquitos to find us leave the amig road at a point I 1 mile east of james pierces Pl erces thence south four miles or leave the now road at tb the coal mines thence three miles milea north for or O 0 r taster er information write ja JU 1 E U usher er 1 M D jensen utah I 1 see we have a agop op up writing from the twin washes well why he pop up long ago aga and give us the news of the neighborhood still our enow snow continue continued this day of april pat lopez is 1 making substantial water improvements on his land located bated at mormon gap tildon manspeaker made a trip to roosevelt with a load of household goods for W K johnson on the night of april ath some unknown persons tied two of snellen suellen johnsons sheepherders while they killed and maimed nearly head of sheep the scene of the killing was near red wash some three miles south of the craig road the the sheep wagon was ajeo destroyed by tire geo ad matterson Is putting in a small tore store and road house at skull creek on the craig vernal road we are glad to note that our friend E V wall has returned to his homestead on willow creek everyone seems to be planning on a large crop thie this year james blackburn Is now our road I 1 boas from the K ranch to maybel A WONDERFUL FREAK one of the most wonderful freaks ever oyer known in the history of the animal world ie in recorded here A calf with two heads four front quarters two spine spines for forming milic a junction just in front of the hips two hind quarter and tro oro equally developed tails the property of W K johnson was born a few low days ago on an his ranch on skull creek the specimen was at once seny an to tc salt lake for moun mounting lIng many are interested and offers of fabulous price prices are reported to have been received the freak carries the hereford mark throughout |