Show ancient writings in local canyons of 0 national interest BY LEO 0 vernal Is 13 a fortunate cly city fortunate that it has 0 so o many inter esting natural and man made things to attract and educate the trai traveling eling public there are the tol fos ill sil quarries to the east and west with miles and miles of doear ing ng strata surrounding the valley our magnificent magniri cent canyons and to the north and cut east ot of us six of 0 them in all ali there aie ue the th wonderful formale for formation mall that attract the geologists i from ram a I 1 over the nation I 1 ul III leave all of the foregoing foree for or descriptive pens more able than mine and confine myself to th the man made monuments of dry fork rd ashley canyons these menu ments I 1 refer to t are the pictographs carved on the canyon walls and smooth faced boulders by dusky finger crumbled cr to dust these many hundreds oi of years these pic to graphs a a tell many stories but lev few are understandable to our n minds ands one in particular though out that all can read Is the from their severed pecks reeks and your imagination can hear the echoes of the s it r cry and the fliri shrieks 43 of 0 the victims down the canyon corridor corridors the north american indian originated the practice of 0 scalping these head huntone iceney must have been carved on ha cliffs comparatively short time after this nomadic people came ere before the ceto it ot of their homeland whether it as in asia or elsewhere had died out uke like in other histories the reader r can choose topics that plea please him vm best if you do not care for war move along the canyon wall will until antauer anit ber page comes into view there you will find some of these inc indent lents busy and in the hunt or view the gu wi i and rulers i n their rich and gaudy trappings we have only a faint idea of how ri llant and showy anese piato abhi p at sit one time for the I 1 intond decades of exposure to ele rents have faded and washed away he greater portions of the paints A q al I 1 it C 4 I 1 t r POU 40 atory of f the head hunter hunters a war there is 1 still left enough paint like people ho onre dwelt in show the caret A d observer that these calm and peaceful canyons of the groups group of carvings V vou 0 I 1 look a at t the figures curbing elaborately decorated and belr blood bloody trophies which are by thee these artists at the dawn depleted dripping the life blocs time if it you do not care for war hunti hunt i ins ing or pompous c ceremony there are agricultural wi cultural pictures to view at least one nf the cultures land and there ara at least three represent led ed in the various roupe r nf of picture as a tiller of the soli soil their old irritation irrigation d aches tan can still be bie traced for miles through the oun coun l try where they were made by a primitive people so long ago that three generations of the jack pinie pinea have hate lived and died in them we do not know to what extend they carried their farming but we do know that they railed raised corn beans beam and equal while HIMI mm of the corn found foun d li small CODS cota up to six and ot ore e half inches hi in length with twelve rows of kernels having been discovered squash shells over a foot in diameter nere ere dun dug out of a cave by the writer their deans begins were of many colors both speckled ineck led and plain and of various artous shapes there are groups of that appear to the writer as the expression of a purely artist artistic lo soul out tn in the more open olen ci a r try are to bel be found the remains of houses some of 0 hach bere e re baut of ticks sticks and mud and others hers of cobble rocks or on tome some dw dwelling elline sites it appears there was only enough rock for the foundations as there la 14 no evidence of or mud I 1 so e mint must conclude the houses were built of lop which have long since crumbled in de cay car |