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Show EMERY NEWS and Mrs Dale Peacock of Placer, ff MrCal. came to St. George lift Wed- ville, nesday to attend commencement for their eon Ross. They came to Emery and look, ed in on their old home and visited with relatives and friends before leaving for Idaho where they will visit their son Fr. ancis and family. Spectacular Goblin Valley is easily reached via paved (highway a short distance from Hanksville, Utah, The warm weather of early spring will ft Mr and Mrs Max Williams of Albuquerque, New Mexico visited recently with a brother Coy and Nettie Williams, ft Mr and Mrs Orval Sorensen returned home last week after spending two weeks in Oroflno, Idaho with their daughter and family, Buela and Hal Worthen. On their way home they visited a brother, Clinton and Pearl Olsen of Nyasa, Oregon. Belva Mortensen of SLC spent last week visiting with her parents Clyde and Jenel Mortensen. tf Mr and Mrs Norris Lewis and of SLC are on vacation and have family spent Emery some time with parents Mr and Mrs L- uDean Maxfield. of Jerry and Marg-r- et ft Raelyn, daughter Mangum of Orem has been vacation-in- g here this past week with grandparents Mr and Mrs Edger Sorensen, and Beth Maxwell and famff ofGilbert a few days with her SLC visited ily folks, Mr and Mr Derail Jacobson, ff Weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Coy Williams were daughters Carina and Don Nicols and family of Kearns and Vivian & Lee Zundell and family of SLC, Sons Clark and family, Layton and Stewait & family of Hunter. Memorial Day visitoR of the Williams' were Mr LaVera SLC, Mrs Ada Jensen (Smithy) and daughter, Richfield, Mr and Mr Byron Peacock, West Jordon, ff Sandra and Scott Mortensen vacationed last week in SLC at the home of an aunt and uncle Mr and Mr Clell Mortensen. of the f f Mr Rose Olsen received word death of a sister-in-la- w Mr Zina Burr of Salina. She accompanied Mr and Mrs Homer Jensen to the funeral services Saturday. ff Mr and Mrs Harold Olm stead of Roy visited last week with her mother Mr Verda Broderick. f f Mr and Mr Phillip Mortensen and family were SLC visitors at the home of her mother, Mrs Mary Arnold. ff Sunday guests of Mr Pearl Peterson were her daughter and family, Clara and Clifford Clark of Spanish Fork. They find scores of visitors hiking through that covered the Goblin Valley area more than 100 million years ago. Some of them stood 23 feet high and weighed thirty to forty tons and were 103 feet in length. Unknown until a lew years ago (except to a few wandering cowboys and prospectors) Goblin Valley is now less than an hours drive north from Hanksville over a paved road. If you like to leave the crowded highway to search out the rare and unusual, you will be delighted with this eerie liittle valley filled with hundreds of grotesque figures carved by the artful fingers of rain and wind from sandstone. 'Hidden away among the crags and buttes of eastern Utahs wild and colorful Zane Grey country, this geological museum was first photographed in 1949, end was christened Goblin Valley by the unanimous decision of those who first stumbled upon it. Just recently it was made part of the Utah State Park System. A few minutes drive southwest cf Temple Mountain (Junction on Utah Highway 24, brings you dose to the north rim erf the valley. You wont need a second glance to know why this Startling spot has been laibled Valley of The Goblins, Hoodoo Heaven, Godly Gully and other equally exclamatory names. The level, pavmenl-lik- e floor is crowded with a most amazing collection of start nisl-oolor- ed w ling statuary this side of planet. When you descend into the valley to wander among mishapen fim-ioCi- gures you leave the everyday world behind. Its obvious that Nature, sometime in her dim, dark past, must have waved a magic wand and instantly transformed the grotesque creatures of this little world into stone, and here they have remained motionless ever since. Story-Boo- Character k As you roam this fantastic sandstone museum it takes very little imagination to see story-boocharacters by the dozen; one-eye- d witches, three-eye- d goblins, mythical monsters, legendary beasts, gruesome gargoyles and scores of creatures that might have popped right out of Alice in Wonderland. Some of these figures are eerie and sinister - looking while others are downright hidl.orius. Some of them appear to be waiting impatiently for you to pass on out of sight. At times you suspect that if you sneak up on them, or turn your head suddenly, you will catch more than one of the squat figures shuffling stealthily out of sight around a comer. Some of the more bizarre figures stand on pedestals like statues in a weird art-galk l- . m ery, while other furtive characters on conical hats huddle in groups as though conferring nervously about what to do with the sightseers who have invaded tiieir private domain. Carved from the walls along the border of the valley are small bays or coves shaped like miniature where an1 audience of stony creatures stand motionless as though listening to a silent symphony. Two miles south of this valley is another, even larger basin filled with spires, minarets and more goblin-lik- e figures. It may be reached by foot following a dry wash that takes off from the southern end df Goblin Valley. (From a high point above this section Hows a tiny stream known as Stinking Spring Creek. ampi-Iheatr- es Zane Grey Country Goblin Valley is surrounded by a spectacular area that is fascinating scenically geoand historically. logically The maps of this part cf eastern Utah are dotted with such strange sounding names as Hidden Splendor, Dead World, Pinto Hills, Cathedral Valley and Hells Backbone. This land of purple shadows with its hidden canyons, isolated valleys and color-bandebuttes, was the locale and (inspiration of some of Zane Greys western novels. In fact, the wild stallion Wildfire was captured in this area by Charlie Gibbons from Hanksville. To Zane Grey d th's was the corrugated world of distance. To the Mormon pioneers this rugged region was a pJe of rocks that couldnt sprout a kemal or feed a yellow-and-pur-p- beast! le To modem ers it offers solace explor- as a wonderful place for fugitives from frustration. Geologically this entire region, with its rainbow-tinte- d cliffs, mesas, and canyons, is most fascinating. It has been variously described as a geologists nightmare, a prospectors dream and a rock hounds paradise. To the Indians it was the Land of the Sleeping Rainbow,, a name thalt Ch'inle period came to an end when the dimate changed. The streams and marshlands dried up, the vegetation withered and died,, the describes the startling colors displayed by the Chinle, Wingate, Kaj-entand Navajo formations that are exposed in many places throughout this area. Shin-arum- p, a, Sandstone Formations The Shimcrump conglomerate that lies below the varicolored Chinle, Is the source of much of the uranium found in this part of the stake. At the foot of Temple Mountain, just a few miles northeast of Goblin Valley a uranium mine penetrates the same formation. The Oiinle formation contains the bones and footprints of dinosaurs and other creatures of the prehistoric past that once roamed this part of Utah. Evidence has been found that indicates at least eight different species of these enormous terrible lizards once wandered through the humid swampland . dinosaurs disappeared and over this ancient desert spread the shifting sands and shallow seas that formed what we call the Wingate, Kayenta and Navajo Sandstone. These sandstone strata are responsible for many of the lofty djtffe and buttes of this region. The Navajo formation is made up of cross bedded (windblown) sand cemented by lime and interspersed with layers of clay and dolomite laid down by freshwater lakes that once covered the area and then receded. The earth in the vicinity of Goblin Valley slowly lowered untjil it was covered by the sea coming in from the north. Above the Navajo formation, the Carmel limestone and limey shales woe deposited by the sea. Again the surface of the land was slowly elevated, the sea receded and the Entrada rust-re- d sandstone was laid down. Examinations of the goblins in Goblin Valley reveals that they are composed of remnants of this Entrada Sandstone that once covered the valley and adjacent areas. Since the sandstone is harder and more resistant to erosion than the softer Camel limestone below, it has protected the soft base material while the surrounding unprotected material has been worn away by wind and water. Although rains are rare in this region, it has been estimated that a twenty minute downpour on this barren landscape will wash away more material than an entire rainy season in greener areas. A close look at the mud-fal- ls on the sides of Horse Mesa is Wild ncaity dramatic proof of that estimate. Ancient Art Gallery West of Goblin Valley a series of broken ledges angle upward to merge with a shattered, rocky slope that forms the eastern edge of the San Rafael Swell. As one of the most spectacular geological features of the area, the Swell is a titantic rock dome that encompases some of the (most fantastically eroded on the globe. It is scenery an area thats the epitome Of harsh and loriy desolation. An immense wasteland scarred by dusty washes, precipitous canyons, spires and monoliths. Squaw skirted buttes, their ruffled borders banded with gray and brown and maroon, rise abruptly out of isolated basins. Naked hills hunch their backbones against the sky in sdlhouttes like ancient prehistoric monsters. This Is a land of sun and silence, fascinating and still little known. Here you can find the Sinbad Desert, a dotted with jutting monoliths in every conceivable shape and color,- or the Devils Stewpot, thousands oi rc-g:- on - mounds that ret semble a giants soup bowl 'Here is Lon Chaney Peak, hollowed-ou- Cargo Avf. ?CAT, (SrA- - Jn &UNNY Forest fires burn more then tress. P8 cy'J VS6A--' rx A Fuu-- Cur the Mountain with a and faces, as well as Printed Carpets Hoo- Ardi, a natural arch t. shaped Iks the loop of a Here, too, are found Hidden Splendor, a region of doo lar-'ja- colored tumbled brightly rocks of stone, and Buckhom Canyon, with its prehistoric art gallery displaying huge undeciphered pictographs. Although this part Of Utah was bypassed by early routes em:-- , , of the westward-boun- d grants, the region surrounding Goblin Valley has its own peculiar niche in history. These templed mountains and lonely canyons have seen the winking campfires of roving Indians bands, explorers, wagon trains, outlaws and prospectors. On canyon walls and in caves have been found petroglyphs and laitJacts that date back to the Basketmakers. Escalante Expedition an expedition headed by Father Escalante crossed the Green River east of here and wandered among the buttes and canyons north while of Goblin Valley, searching for a route from Santa Fe to Monterey. The Old Spanish Trail, opened in 183) between Santa Fe and California passes not far north of Goblin Valley. Portions of its corkscrew route can still be seen. Through this land passed Fremont in 1854 and left his name on a river that provides irrigation for all Hanksville farms. Major John Wesley Powell passed this way in 1875 and he desorbed1 the ariea as a strange, weird, grand region. The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock, cliffs of rocks, crags of rocks, tables of rocks ten thousand strangely carved forms., In 1776, years this part of Utah has been a land because much of it was unexplored, unUntil Sort hr, Peterson returned home with them for a short visit. grotesque rock formations of Goblin Valley, WAREHOUSE came for their daughter Lesa who has been visiting the past week. Maxcine the deep avenues found between the Dcnuiifful Goblin Volley is Easily Reached Mow on Paved Highways Reprinted by request of author By BARBARA EKKER 1971 Thursday, June rectont ed mapped and difficult to roach. The uranium hunters with their jeeps and ge:ger counters were the first white n men to see many of i's cansecret and valleys yons. 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