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Show SOUTHEASTEflN UTAH IS RET IB VAST HISTORIC GEflLQGlCJVONDERUND Hy C. 11. DltJKUOW Once uiion a tlmo th region which cumprlHOH tho Wuyno Woiulorland, Zion unit Dryco Cimyons ami tho Suu Juan Ujihln was iieopUid by a ruco woll advanced ad-vanced towurd what we cull tlio hko of sclonce and art. Today tho nomadic Nuvajn trulls his tJu't'i over mounds that mark tho nlte ot am-tunt cttlos.' Tho liordHinan ntakta Lis nlKht vIkII In Korpos whero the fortresnes of cliff dwellora cling, high up In the canyon walla. In this land of mystery the tiund of the archooloRlst Is gradually grad-ually ltftliiK the curtain of the centuries that so Ions have concealed con-cealed the tory of vanished peoples. peo-ples. Eons agt thin portion of tho North American Continent wuh a part of the wea. Somewhere Some-where a eatlclymlc disturbance canned tho bottom of tho ocean to sink. upthriiHta formed mountain moun-tain ranges, and huge areas were lifted utiove the. waters. In this aice Uie-Cre1acHous-dlnosaurs and other forma vf reptilian life, lived In and around the. swamps. Gradually Grad-ually the waters leached or evap-! orated and left tho bones of these early forms of life embeded In the nandstone. Thousands of years later the progenitors of the present day Indians, In a effort to escape possibly (or In all probability) from the tremendous convulsions of Votber Karth, made their homes In this hnne graveyard of the Ago of Reptiles. At any rate, race succeeded race, and thanks to the preservative qualities of the dry desert air many, even of the most fragile examples ot the handiwork of these aborlglns, remain re-main mixed with tho debris that Utters caves and rude atone buildings. Although elnce the time of the conqulstadore tales have been rife of aolden chles far op la the fastnesses ot tho mountains drained by the great river, the first published account of this region re-gion appeared In 1874. Since that time every season marks additional ad-ditional discoveries, 1930 and 1932 were no exceptions to thte rule. The latest findB Include war shields as yet not Identified as belonging to any known culture, cul-ture, samples ot the basket makers' mak-ers' art that carry Egyptian designs de-signs and fragments of pottery closely akin to those found In Yucatan. During 1931 an exploration ex-ploration of the fossil beds of Emery County, I'tuh, vastly Increased In-creased the area known to con- tulll tllKHO (lopoHltloiiH, unil It Is lit'llcvod that tlilii roKlon coiUIkii-oiih coiUIkii-oiih to tho Kan ltaphuol Hwull Will IH'OVU to III! U tl'OUHIll'O trovo for tho iialiiontolotilsU. 1934 will uiuloulidly wltntiHu an Intolll-K, Intolll-K, i'ii t HyHtoinutlc oxiiloratlon of this country out motor roads aro licliiK ox'ih1 tliroiiKh tho lioart of tho huHln. l.ct mo conjiiio up thcHo tro-niotulous tro-niotulous folds In tho cur til's nur-fuco nur-fuco as vlowod from TIioiihiukI .alto Mountain. Tho huge fouull bed cent of Cusllodulo cliimoru for attention. The oyo wunJurs toward Torroy and Fruits, and memory Intorruntis with visions of tho lloldun Thront), I'll Ccmtln-i'llo, Ccmtln-i'llo, t'upltal Korgo and tho Krulta Natural llrldge. Time lu forgotten forgot-ten and those trimscondent gorg-oh gorg-oh ki'iiiii again to b pooplod with the red mim who havo left such remarkable uvldonco of their culture cul-ture In this district. Kroin Noltain, looking wot, the huge unllcllnu riven and gashed when tho earth was young rises like a mun-bullt wall to onclose that gem of valleys through which tho Fremont River Riv-er wandons. To the oast the Henry Mountains beckon. To the south, Kalparowltz pluateau In outlined as a strouk of blue, and Just beyond theso majestic elevations the Colorado IUver, deep below the surface of tho plain winds Its tortuous coui-towurd coui-towurd the raclflc. The Kulparowltt plateau and Circle Cliffs are archeologleal trvasuro trovee. On the east aide of tho Colorado, tho Natural Hi id row National Monument Is the gateway to a country equally equal-ly as gorgeous as the region In which Zlon and Ilryco I'arkB are embraced. Unfortunately, however, how-ever, no extended eiploratlon or adequately financed expeditions have searched Sun Juan County for tho purpose of unraveling the mystery of the mounds which may hold the key to a culture of which very little Is known. i |