Show ancient records found on rocks in state of utah it Is not kno knon n exactly how many 3 ears or hunch bundled eds of yew years or perhaps thousand of enra ears rigo a people pa e taw no once carided car led en on their pursuits of life en our american continent cuch tuch people did exist hun hunting ow our mountains drink inc 1 from ame river or ebbing spring nw row lone long dry or cultivating their cent corn in fertile valley valleys now loft lost by the hitting shifting of desert land sand in our desert deserts our mountains mount alna our valley valleys they lived ought fought their war built their tribal powers and died an let these them ancient people can not be 1 truly termed prehistoric for they have hae left with us Ms torice cs more enduring endur tnt than clay tablets of pyrus scrolls bo 80 fertile Is utah tn in this ancient lore and archeo logical specimens that dr jullin II 11 professor of an anthro apology at the university of or utah has been inspired to call thi this tote tate the nile valley of the new world the abi desert of north amer tea ica o 0 ado recent excavation at it momon Pr ocion tory binton an the northern rf rim m of great salt lake and in uio the sevier desert of central utah have thed shed new light on the life of the people who inhabited utah and part parts of TI evada arizona and california from one onis to five thousand thou sauld bears ao sigo true to every atoo of human life in which there Is a civilization rs es taUl thed however remote the date dabe or unpropitious the condition they have hare left their traces legends myth myths a picture pottery baA basketry ketry and even mu milled specimens of cd their bodies of the many traces which remain to tell us of these therse ancient their as 1 I tnie true with every ancient people li is on one of the most interesting this Is of two hindi kinds tho the autographs graphs painted in various bright coloe on riles mies skins or pottery and pictographs al called d aw cypha rubbed or chippy into the surface of larce large rocks or cliffs recorded on atone as a they are theae pictures hair frowned their silent tales of life her heroism olim adaven ture from the aluc ol uc on which they were caned called centuries ARO ago and ill continue cantin ve to exist tin ul they are lre erased bu the heer sheer force ef of mature eor or are molested molet ted til by vandals the pictures picture are of found round in ahr desert about 20 all Kout rout heit hAest of 0 billmore more atall the reelon te is now sandy waste broken only by several ril rows ros of alaric basalt cliffa 11 and barren bonen of all but the mort moot hardy desert d in diang water holm for cattle ears eln ago local ranee ranke men nen di discovered that benest b tile lif sheet allett of sand and abow the deeper atry floor ct of hard bard white clai there lay ivy a lode of flint and lobedan ob edan abw maits and wone alitt griat rl itt alik an indian settlement nestling nest linc at the foot of these hinric laa cliffs fertile valleys into the swamps of a R dece decedent dInt lake luch la ir the picture of live in at least one section or of utah some 2 years ago and oer overlooking looking thee nucy ure are hien whereof ve c write still whether nich p catuto writ arg 1 wa was an attempt at literature or merely the result of play or ant p wt tj aline me Is not known en E n the writ era ers present da descendants descend anta the american indians hae bae lost nil of thi this the rock bear ni nit the writing hp been and shown to several of pavant davant indians living within fifteen milea mile q of the location but thea denied any kno ledee of tradition cori cern frig the characters tradition cihos to its mysterious lom exis exist tience thero there Is a tradition om a ter fe tribes to the cifeca that in times there rsm to be en on obvert that muted the taci boulders at it could bo I 1 wen n bit its exact thap shap vows arcu it mould ork making sounds ike hammering and emit a IL light milain to t the that of a birely after fin finishing thing its als it would laigh I 1 acet e anian and then dappe ar tile tl ie next mor tris tho the lurt ari ar i would find another pictured roal in the utility where the object had been seen the night previous hut but p ae at de the tile elamer of the kev key to the 1 tion of these thew picture peri vIled long ion aeo ago with the author it I 1 li there fore forr not surprising that many marty theories hae alyen it to their possible ble meaning none of which hiah cilyo choly be discredited As ax no one kno knows a what the biting means out one theory whether advanced whay by rl 11 varr caird d tn in hi eltory tory or ill I 1 it t formed by the ho lone trapper e r alic he finds the pictures by chance in hi hl roaming must be gien the same coli consideration if it reached by sane and logical reasoning each own idea ide the er riding his hu range from day to da sees them ond rs about thew and in hie his spurt lews cuts figures out en an Inter pieta lion tier quite his own in term terms of 0 taken and drawings made the human figures appear to be chieftain the curious caned called lines may be maps of the local territory he the trees and concentric concen tria circles may be landmark landmarks and ull jl vohen hen prop erly riy divined ill III guide him who hohes the mystery to borne some hid den caie me containing bored food or e ten en treasure iuro ire 1 of the more fanciful futel ful turn of mind win will see fo adventure and romance tn in eiery the present writer has ha allied himself xyth ith thia this group and a has eden tone one so tar far a M to ta instruct a porm poem of some 0 ON dosda aich tells the thuc nery story ston an example of such a fictitious interpretation may proe interest ing ln in one picture the chief with a square squam headdress head dreu drets ie is apparently ruler of ft a lanc allae toh to alch ich he Is i poleung and in the center of which Is his council lodee lodge the tle people are lre agricultural acri cultural for the man below la seen drawing dragging an agricultural implement A oung hunter eem seen in another picture visits the village falls in im love e with the chief a daughter and steals her away aay thia this action takes place at night for tn in till another iother aj picture the two fret feet are in a horizontal position which might represent sleep bleep when the aim sun rles rises and the escape escare c Is in d wo covered scover vered rrt there Is a council counell and a party Is organized to follow them and restore the princess out into the detert go the fleeing pair for flie das dabs six ix esever dave clavis as bv by the cal calendar adar tick stick in another picture the pur party over overtakes takis them and there Is P battle in hichi the oune loer Is killed the pirl pid Is returned to the tile hoina homce of her father fattier ard the story ends thrig like ulm this ca bilde b ilde square dokmay door ay stand tho the cliff cliffs the door cl nay say rodia rocks I 1 lint tell a maiden i atory unon upon the tim cur colln nince daun late upon these ere written ethrice Et orice ct of a ro romance marice bitten foe f oe by poisoned vengeance irn leance bitten t 01 ol r riona on of tile nit ng pas an n to tin tte trained t horev fr pr the me story h 1 an entirely different we abr him here there 1 I no inter prota tim there IA 1 only a recognition an all malusis Tia ma lyela lysis and a poss ble com comparion parlon lson the ibe ill reco entre in the human form forms rep tit of idt felt es e impersonated bv by men of ahr tribe dread fd in uniforms or he may corn clude some of tic the figures to be totems effigies of the clan 8 mythical ancestor ancestors or even een mere scribbling amone among the animals lie will rec he the mountain sheep the large re curving horns honis of or the male of are a tricking tri king fully utilized in all p writing by the primitive artist although t e cukar rullar bar with ith its it many cros crosa haa has biers stilled ath signs that it IS I 1 a R calendar seems the roost most probable each cross erms a lunar or remnal period bee reek to U rr r r e the ill noe in the foot and hand prints print a sigm 1 common in stam el ens etchings of aest et ein america he may find it in irs to compare these limp rl rattle e single line drawings dran ings with la lab borate featured picture of the ancient roeta or enan deities rut nut tre preat Mit of the gist nt at present ii I 1 i to pre salle the tile data xich alie ethcie e human q offer aa cery rr he turn turns uie we in fine eil ril dence ct cf andall and allAni sm by extol latton t jhc thc he expand rig and contract 1111 of the outer abiell of t thee hete basalt fl due to chaapel li lit berul perit ture the tile pictures can be faella scaled off orr although it U highl ext rable that these attract ton be made aal lable for the touret tour lt ta ho Is 1 eier carroin of 0 neural ria tural wonders it will firt be ner eLary to make a complete comple tv scientific etula of thep P a ell as other picture in the state desert desm nes ne s |