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Show SKULL MUTE EVIDENCE OE THRONEMIIG Orcutt Reported That Human I!ones Were Found on Summit Sum-mit of ion Mountain. The following, by II. L. Reid, Zion park ranger-naturalis-t, gives the history of the climbing of the Great White Throne, which had been successfully scaled in years gone by by an unknown man, who never returned to report re-port his exploit: i According to me account g:v-j g:v-j en by Don Orcutt, who, on June ' 30, 1931. made the climb to the summit of the Great White Throne, he was not the first man to reach the top of that famous monolith. "Mr. Orcutt reported that on the top of the Throne lie discovered discov-ered a portion of a human skull, yellow and brittle with age. No record remains to tell the story 1 connected with that skull, and: one is left to conjecture how it might have reached there. Per-; haps in days forgotten some ven- j tnresonie Indian, perhaps of the cliff dwelling nation, made bis v.-!v to the tip. lint ei ft fr reaching reach-ing th -re fen red to make the I descent iii.il r' Kiri'-tl. a wa it ing i the rescue parly whi-h never came. "The Ftojy of the :ii;:!.;;is of the Great While Throne c;in w -11 he summarized as fni;n"-.-.: r-;, man. name ,-ind date unknown, success f ully reached i,e top. I never to return, leaving s I; m ! ; as evidence. j ( '.'nr. i :in:e. n o) j MUTE EVIDENCE (Continued from page 1) "A second man, William H. W. Evans of Pasadena, Calif. r on June 2S, 1927, succeeded in reaching the top, only to slip and fall. He rolled or slid for a considerable distance badly bruising bruis-ing himself and had to be carried car-ried out by the rangers. "A third man, Don Orcutt, of Los Angeles, reached the top on June 30, 1931, and returned successfully. suc-cessfully. I |