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Show Pag THE Sis SUN-ADVOCAT- of Museum Community Effort Went Into Many Aspects No part of Carbon College Prehistoric Museum represents community effort more than the show cases, burial pit, placards, and quarry which house and explain the various exhibits of the museum. One of the biggest problems in acstarting the museum was the this and show cases, of quisition matter came to be solved when the show cases at Kenilworth and Castle Gate stores were offered to the museum by Independent Coal and Coke Company. George Patterick located the show cases originally, and with Art Rasmussen, Lamont Kartchner, J. Eldon Dorman, moved them to the museum in December. As preparation of the museum continued, many individuals took part cleaning the cases, painting them, and making them useful for display. Frank Tomsic of Helper is especially to be commended for the amount of time he spent and the materials he donated in getting the glass replaced and repaired. Individuals who took part in cleaning and painting the show cases included : Blaine Barton, Ar- - EVERY ... KITCHEN The prehistoric Indians who inhabited the southeastern Utah ground their corn with a metate and mano like the one shown above. Several of these "conveniencss" of prehistoric times are on display at the Carbon College Prehistoric Museum. nel Downard, Byrd Gordon, Albert Heggen, Brent Housekeeper, Joseph Mason, James Naylor, Jack Patterson, John Sampinos, Alvin Swasey, John Westenscow, Kenneth Witten, Dr. Quinn A. Holly Bryner, Mack Whiting, Budge, Paul Cook, Dr. J. Eldon Dorman, Rex Guymon, Donald L. Burge, Frank Mabbutt, Dr. Sam L. Oliveto, Edward Piacitelli, William F. Reves, Frank Tomsic, Howard Norton, Boyd Marsing, Thuren Odendahl, Paul Sealey, John Smith and Lamont Kartch- ner. After the cases had been cleaned and painted, and after glass had been replaced, other individuals lined the floors and shelves of the cases with burlap, installed locks and light fixtures, and rendered the final finishing touches to the cases. These individuals, as well as certain of the people named above, included: Carl Kil-liWayne and Edith Johnston, Sam and Bertha Vance, Carry Sta. ley, Charles and Virginia Rudisell, Arthur and Alice Rasmussen, Edward and Bette Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. W. Douglas Wilson, Thelma Wilson, Brent Housekeeper, Holly Bryner and Richard Newberry. Lenar Peacock installed the lighting fixtures which provide an indirect light on the shelf of each case. Wallace Conover and Jack Forrester, as well as Ray Downard, participated in securing these fixtures at a minimum cost to the museum. Materials used in the preparation of the show cases were donated by Franks Glass Shop, Helper; Bertot Glass, Sears Roebuck and Company, Price Com- mission Company, Carbon Transfer and Supply Company, Downard Contractors, and possibly by others whose names have been Difficult Problem of Preserving is unintentionally overlooked. Show cases were donoted to the Inand shooting at them with fire A game of hide and seek for museum Veltri Drug and Chris dian pictographs near Cleveland-Lloy- d arms is not only illegal but also Jouflas. by Other show cases will is a in proDinosaur Quarry disgrace. be needed as the museum expands, tecting these priceless remains and businesses or individuals ownis vandalism a of acts from great ing show cases which are not of Burial Procedure one. use to them are requested to doResidents and visitors should be nate them to the museum so that Of Prehistoric to preserve petro-glyph- s encouraged they may be gathered and reand pictographs for posconditioned for future use. Times Shown terity. They cannot be replaced, and the painting of initials or of Ore Samples Displayed Th$ burial display suggested names and dates over the petro-glypL. Donald and designed by or near the pictographs, An interesting collection of Burge promises to be one of the uranium ores from the Yellow Cat most fascinating exhibits in the area and from other uranium proMost Beautiful Display museum. The burial simulates a ducing areas in southeastern Utah ledge within a cave such as was is on display as result of a loan One of the most beautiful disused for disposing of bodies durfrom Wayne E. Johnston who opplays in Carbon College PrehistorFremont times. ing exhibit is the erated a mine for a number of ic Museum priceless The display is recessed in a years. of agatized redwood gathered and a w'all and is viewed polished by William Branson. It window about three through feet six by it fills a whole show case, and Two in size. The window and case Burial contains many beautiful pieces. were built by Downard ContracPieces tors and the exhibit was preparPreparing Skeleton ed by Donald L. Burge, WillShown Museum The skeleton of the Allosaurus iam Branson and Richard Newdinosaur being assembled for Carberry. Two burials of infants of Frebon College Prehistoric Museum mont times are on display in the will be about twelve or fifteen of the archeological exhibit. These were feet long. About one-fift- h Model Dinosaur Quarry loaned to the museum by Dave bones for this skeleton have A replica of the Cleveland-Lloy- d Nordell and Francis Flaim. been received by the museum and Quarry will be a feaIn both instances the infants are being cleaned and prepared Dinosaur ture exhibit of Carbon College for assembly by Donald L. Burge. Prehistoric Museum. It will show w'ere encased in baskets, and one of the skeletons is in a how dinosaur bones are found in leather skin. Both wrapped are genuine a shale material which underlies Carbon Indian Carvings county prehistoric burials. a layer of limestone and w'ill give of an idea of how the digging In Nine Mile dinosaur bones is effected. to Take Infant If you had been an Indian liv- ing in southeastern Utah about 900 A.D. you might have been the artist who carved one of the in Nine Mile. In that case you also might have known You what the pictures mean. might be able to suggest the meaning of the hundred or more such pictures which are found in Nine Mile Canyon. If you examined them closely, even today, especially if youre an authority on the significance of surmodernistic, impressionistic, realistic or other paintings of the present time, you might be able to come up with some meaning. Petroglyphs and ruins left by the people who lived in this area about 1000 A.D. are abundant in Nine Mile Canyon. Pictures of these petroglyphs and photographs of other attractions of this area are on display in the museum. The ceremonial wedding cup in Carbon College Prehistoric Museum is a remarkable piece of pottery. The two cups are joined by a hollow tube such that liquid poured into one cup rises to a level identically the same as in the other. It is thought that this was a piece of pottery probably used to celebrate weddings, though the proof for such 'an idea is are there any other lacking thoughts as to what this piece of pottery might have been? on display Volunteers Sought To Oversee Museum Visiting C. W. Stubby" Petersen, member of the Board of Directors of Carbon College Prehistoric Museum, is charged with the responsibility of keeping the museum open during visiting hours. While the amount of traffic cannot be determined at the present time, and while potential traffic will not be known until more publicity has been developed, plans are that the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce will serve as attendant at the museum for part of each morning and that Mr. Petersen and his assistants will assume responsibility for keeping the museum open from about 1 :00 oclock each afternoon until probably as late as 8:00 oclock in the evening. It is thought that a number of local citizens will volunteer their services as museum attendants to supervise and deal with visitors to the museum and to care for the souvenir counter. Plans presently are being drawn to secure postcards and color slides, to have fragments of dinosaur bones and pottery available, and to secure plastic reproductions of dinosaurs and of figurines for sale as souvenirs. Other gift items which would appeal to tour- ists will likely be secured and placed in a souvenir counter just outside the door of the museum. Arthur Rasmussen, who has been a leading merchant in Price for more than twenty years, is in charge of merchandising. The sale of pottery pieces, bone fragments, post cards and souvenirs, will be such as to furnish the museum with some revenue but will not include items generally on sale elsewhere or of a competitive char- acter. items placed on exhibition were the collection of Indian artifacts loaned to the museum by District Judge Fred W. Keller. His loan, which was obtained by Dr. Quinn A. Whiting, broke the ice, and thus the remarkable collection of artifacts from Fremont times was begun. Plans for Future plan- ned for future times will feature the weapons prehistoric Indians used. This exhibit will probably have a sculpture of an Indian throwing a spear with an atlata, and in the case with the sculpture will be the projectile points, the spears, and an atlatal which have been found in the area as remnants of weapons used by the pre- historic Indians. are proud to be associated with the Great Eastern Utah Area We - - - Its Past, Its Present and Its Future - - - are of concern to us. SUCCESS TO LATEST CARBON PREHISTORIC is shown with the eleven figurines which he dis- covered in a cave in the Range Creek country eastern Carbon county in March of 1950. This collection is considered the most complete ' figures in a book published by Noel Morss of the Peabody Museum at Harvard. This collec-o- f tion has been loaned for display at the Car- bon College Prehistoric Museum. Contributions from Many Made Price Museum Possible If it were not for the donations from innumerable individuals and business firms as well as for the tremendous amounts of time spent by many individuals, Carbon College Prehistoric Museum would not have been built. First and foremost donation was that of Price Chamber of Commerce, when $1,000.00 of its savings account accumulated over the years was placed at the disposal of the committee for the purchase of cases and for the purpose of getting the museum organized. The second donation of size was the grant by Price Municipal Corporation of the use of a room in the city hall, rent free, decorated, and ready to go. Many business firms have made contributions in cash, including Carbon Fuel Company, First National Bank of Price, Heiner Coal Company, Helped State Bank, Independent Coal and Coke Company, Kelleys Price Drug Company, Liberty Fuel Company, Mission Auto Court, Nicholson Drug, Pioneer Fuel Company, R and C Drug Company, Seppi Motel, Spring Canyon Coal Company and Western Fuel Company. Cash funds have been used to participate in the operation of Cleveland-Lloy- d Dinosaur Quarry for the purpose of securing a dinosaur skeleton, and of course, there have been many demands for cash to buy paint, locks for show cases, supplies and other materials used in getting the museum underway. Local citizens who have donated cash to the project include Wilson Anderson, Holly Bryner, Dr. Leland K. Dayton, James J. Dr. J. Eldon Dorman, Ray Downard, Chris Jouflas, Carl Nyman, Harold O. Patterick, Citizens who would be willing to donate their services in keeping the museum open during the coming summer are asked to contact Mr. Petersen or the Chamber of Commerce so as to be placed on the roster of attendants. It is hoped that later this summer a slide show may be developed for presentation each evening to tourists at the museum; one part of which will be an explanation of how dinosaur bones came to be buried in the Cleveland-Lloy- d Sculpture Dinosaur uarry, how they Future Role remained there through all the millions of years which have inIn Museum Displays tervened until now, and how they came to be located so near the As Carbon College Prehistoric surface at the present time; and Museum grows in future years, the second part of which would Proper protection of fossils and emphasis will be placed on color- set forth the scenic attractions of of Indian artifacts, as well as of ful and dramatic exhibits instead of the area with pictures of the beau- geras and minerals loaned to the having cases filled with pottery tiful views to be seen at Buck-hor- n museum, proper identification to e and placards. It is planned that know who loaned or donated each Draw, Goblin Valley, a sculpture of a prehistoric womto the museum, proper deitem other and places. Canyon an busy with her chores of storing scription of each article so as to grains and preparing meals can distinguish it from others, and Dr. W. L. Stokes be obtained so as to show all of preparation of appropriate docuthe basketry and pottery she had ments evidencing the loan or gift at her disposal. These pieces Is Authority of each item to the museum is a would be shown in proportionate and an exacting On Prehistorics size in the sculpture, setting job, and it is one performed with around the Indian woman just as The Cleveland - Lloyd Dinosaur little fanfare. The individual rethough they were in use, and in Quarry near Cleveland is present- sponsible for this work is Assisthe same relative positions in the being operated by Dr. William tant Curator William Branson of show case would be the actual ly e collector of Lee Stokes, head of the depart- Helper, a storage vats, the water jugs, the ment of geology of the University fossils and of Indian artifacts. He cooking pots, the dippers, and the of Utah and a member of the was a member of the evening class baskets which have been obtained board of directors of Carbon Col- in geology when the idea of the by the museum and are on exhibit. lege Prehistoric Museum. He is museum first originated, and he the author of a number of books has met with the organizers from on geology and last fall his own the instant the cases first began Metafe and Mono text called Essentials of Earth to be placed in the museum and History, An Inrtiduction to His- artifacts began to be received. It Use Saved torical Geology was published by is he who places identfying numPrentice bers on fossils or artifacts and Hall, Iuc. Teeth of Indians This text will add to the wide who maintains a careful record In the old days grinding corn fame of Dr. Stokes and may well of the individuals to whom these the presented a problem. Chewing it become one of the foremost texts artifacts belong. He assumes whole was hard on teeth, if the on historical geology used in the responsibility for assuring collecperson had any, and dentists colleges and universities of North tors and owners that their preAmerica. cious materials will not be lost hadnt been invented. Dr. Stokes was bom at Hia- nor intermingled with items beThis was 990 A.D. throughout the southwest, and the prehis- watha and was reared at longing to others in such fashion as to lose identity. toric Indians who inhabited the Mr. Branson has not only conplains of southeastern Utah ground their com with a metate, and, as Fossilized Leaves tributed to the growth of the muis the case with housework toservA remarkable find of fossils of seum by performing these the furnished also day, the women enjoyed exclu- leaves was he but ices, prepared for display museum with a remarkable dissive rights in doing the grinding. last week by George Patterick, redA metate and mano (the hand Jr., Mack Budge, Alton Williams, play of beautiful agatized stone), in fact five or more of Dr. Dean Winters, Harold Cooper, wood, loaned the museum a fire them are on display. Com cobs and Edith Johnston and Er- carrier woven from tree bark and g which have survived from the day Wayne nest Hartman, who found them from fibers and used for the metate was used until the in a section of limestone in the a spark or flame from one present time (because of the arid Black Hawk formation in Hunt- going fire to a new one, and supconditions which exist) are also of folsom points and ington Canyon. The limestone was plied exhibits on display. tools as well as carefully split open along horizons awls and cutting other fossils. of carbon deposits and remarkable ammonites and One of the most extensive col- leaf impressions were thus dislections of arrowheads in Carbon closed. Included in the fossils was Placards for the archeological county is that belonging to Keith a large palm leaf impression, and fossil exhibits have been writHansen of Dragerton who has which emphasizes the lush vegeta- ten by Dr. Dorman and Donald L. gathered them all of his life. Most tion which existed during the Cre- Burge, and typed by Gwen Adams, of his collection is on display in taceous period when the coal beds Betty Hansen, Betty McArthur the museum were formed. and Saundra Thomas. Assistant Curator Dia-man- ti, William F. Reves, Dr. Orson B. Spencer, Robert M. von Storch, Ray Waiters and Dr. Quinn A. Whiting. Gifts of materials by various local firms for use in painting the murals in the museum, for reconditioning the showcases, and for other such purposes, include Bertot Glassy Carbon county. Carbon Transfer and Supply Company, Downard Contractors, Franks Glass, Hartman and Jensen Machine Shop, Kilfoyle Krafts, Mutual Lumber Company, Office Equipment Company, Price Commission Company, Prichard Transfer, Sears Roebuck and Company. Show cases have been donated by Food Center and Veltris Drug of Helper. The Bureau of Land Management has furnished signs for marking the road and furnished not only the materials, but also the labor, for installing a fence around the dinosaur quarry. George Wallace, custodian of city hall has located the materials for and has built and painted a sign for use on the highway east of Price advertising the museum. Joe O. Luke, instructor in junior high school at Helper, is preparing a tooled leather guest register to be used in the museum as a means of keeping a tally of visitors. His students have won many prizes in state competitions for the excellent leather work that they do. Probably innumerable other individuals have contributed their time or made donations of materials, and for one reason or another their donations have not been recorded. The museum has won the support of the whole community, and as a community project its success seems assured. lllllllllllllllllll!lllllllllll!llllll!llllllllll!ll!lllllll!lll!lll!!lllllllllllllllllllllll Has Job Ice Breaking Loan The first archeological Another dramatic exhibit 1, 1961 Thought to be Wedding Cup at Excite Imagination Thursday, Jun Piece of Pottery n, A MUST FOR PRICE. UTAH E, ACHIEVEMENTS COLLEGE MUSEUM EASTERN UTAH ELECTRIC COMPANY Of Marking Items Nine-Mil- time-consumi- long-tim- When you go plates travel with assurance that your car has the best in servicing. And for the best, stop at your Phillips 66 service station. Our congratulations to the Carbon lege Prehistoric Museum. Col- We invite motorists to stop in Price to see the museum and to take the many interesting side trips to points of scenic and educational interest in this area. And remember, your trip will afford greater pleasure when you travel with trans-ferin- Carl Nyman & Son Phone ME 93 Price, Utah |