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Show 1a.j. ) garded as beginning in 1776. When the padres camped at Reed (Santa Brigida) October 7 and south of Milford (San Rustico) the next night, then went on as I have said. Thus the present site of Milford is between the two camping places of the Dominguez-Escalante party in that area. Sincerely, Carlton Culmsee Professor Emeritus of American Civilization (Formerly Dean, College Col-lege of Humanities and Arts, USU) By the way, when I was a boy living at Nada, about 1910, a man drilled into the hot springs hill - and struck a geyser of boiling water that shot up 75 to 100 feet every couple of minutes. In a year or two the minerals clogged up that outlet, forcing the water to emerge elsewhere on the hill. But it was a roaring, belching Old Faithful while it lasted. Dear Editor: Congratulations on winning a number of awards in the USPA contests. Two items in your latest issue came together in my mind. One was the possibility of drilling for geothermal power. The other was the fact that Governor Rampton plans to attend the Milford Centennial program August 8. How do they tie up? One likely site for such drilling is, as you have pointed out previously, pre-viously, the hot springs between Thermo and Nada, about 18 miles south of Milford. Fathers Escalante and Dominguez camped camp-ed a little south of the site of Milford the night of October 8, 1776. Next day they went on and rode to the top of the little hill made by the hot springs. We can locate the place with precision because they speak of the boiling springs bubbling out of the hill. The next day they went on to a place between Blue Knoll and the site of Lund where they "gambled" to settle an argument between the priests and the laymen as to whether they should go on to Monterey, Monter-ey, California or double back to Santa Fe, N. M. The lot-casting lot-casting determined that they would in truth double back. So I am starting a little campaign cam-paign to get those hot springs named Dominguez Springs as he was head of the party, superior su-perior to Escalante. It's right, I think, that Escalante should steal the show because he was the man who produced a highly useful journal. But we could properly give a modest honor to the head of the party. I imagine you folks are planning plan-ning to give a bit of recognition to The Dominguez-Escalante exploration ex-ploration on August 8, since Milford's history could be re- |