Show QUESTION ESTION aU OF footprints YANOSH KANOSH millard county january jtb 1893 I 1 have bave been asked by a friend in fillmore to write for publication what I 1 know about the footprints in cherock the reck now to be seen at the office of the Worl worlds dile fair commission in the dooly block salt bait lake city my friend has been applied to for the information and knowing that I 1 was somewhat mooed through living here bere I 1 will give my view alowis on the subject through the RE a where everybody every bady will see it about one and a halt half miles due west from kanosh disconnected with any other Is ie a black lava mountain two or three hundred feet high easily climbed from the south booth and east but on the north it to la almost perpendicular and at its if base are scattered fragments of rook rock of various sizes izes 8 some very large from one of these fragments the footprints were taken cutout a year or so since by parties coming from another town to wn the people here bore felt quite outraged at what was wao considered a piece of vandalism as aa we your correspondent among the res looked upon them as genuine footprints made upon plastic matter and there grow grew a kind of manc wonder in our minds as aa to whom and by whom the impress was made mr M r E W penny one of our citi MM corresponded with the smith conlan institute about the footprints and they instructed a salt lake pro fessor to visit the locality tho the ren iten postponed his visit and the vandals came and carried off the trophy i to comply with the request of ray my friend I 1 got team and ladder and prevailed on OB nolab neighbor bor penney to go with me on january 2nd and to the desecrated spot and investigate as rumor had blid it that other foot prints could be found we did investigate and the result has been in we me tue the destruction of the plastic theory I 1 am not a geologist nor versed in archaeology but observe observation 0 L assisted by my limited amount of human reason has destroyed my ideal natures impress and replaced it with a grosser work of art this rook rock the fragment upon which foot prints were found to is quite a large muse mass I 1 measured it from the top it to is irregular in shape and it measured 24 feet by 12 fee feet in the center east and west north and south my ladder is foot feet long it did not reach the highest part of the rock by at least three feet standing on the south side of the rook rock close up it would touch the bottom part of a medium sized mans vest sloping from that to the base some three test feet and sloping northward and upward for several feet then rising perpendicular to the top it was on able northward slope that the footprints were found As you stood on the ground Ir ouid and looked look ed at them they had the appearance of having been formed by more than one person climbing up to the top of the rook rock there certainly were two different sized feet marks god and we thought one was that of a female apparently being assisted ase letea by her lover tiptoeing through the mud but this rock never waa in a plastic 0 condition 0 n where it now lay it is a laige fragment of millions of tons tone of the same material I 1 nearby near by with every sign of being broken off by internal violence as the mountain and the frog frag ment show footprints can easily be made upon properly conditioned mud but could that mud be transformed into lava rock molten boiled and bubbled as this country for hundreds Lund rede of miles has been and these same game foot prints become e a part of a solid mountains mountain baked and cooled off for a thousand years and then this mighty chunk kindly belched out by some violent aboa hock being broken just right to show us tin he be footprints made before the bu b altug process commenced A writer in the november calle it lava rook rockell what we call it he suggested that the 0 owner ner of the feet was la in a hurry burry while running over the partially soft boft laws lava as the imprint of the toes to is deeper than that of the heels beeb I 1 think partially soft lava would be exceed angly warm for bare feet and if the writer had bad our experience in a crudely constructed turkish bath heated from a tile floor he would have found that heat beat thus applied throws thrown a man back on his heels to halloo hoi loo near by the rook rock fr from m which the footprints were taken are several other rooks rocks fragments about the same size I 1 know knew of some markings upon one of these we mounted to the top upon which twenty five men could stand vve ve discovered and pointed out to friend penney one after another the markings under our feet a copy of which I 1 enclose made upon a postal ord card while upon the rook rock there are many other markings than those pre rented all are undoubtedly works of art common III over utah the black spots are holes in which you coulden could coul dan stand an egg there are other prints prinis of hands and I 1 am told some bove discovered the foot prints of children there can be no doubt that these then were made with a hard haid instrument in inhuman human hands on the south side glde of this rook are some peculiar characters ehara oters which I 1 would call having seen originals in the british museum and the book of abraham degenerate egyptian before getting down from this rock I 1 discovered upon the edge at the only place a person could crawl up notches making a kind of miniature battlement appearance sod god my idea to is that this abi rook rock was a kind of pul pulpit it shrine or altar upon which none no but ut the great or powerful might tread and from which the they harangued the common folk below I 1 think now how the same mine people that made ali the one other carvings so near no by 2 or 8 a rode also out the footprints in question and that they had some special use perhaps on festal days certain maidens would to teat their agility in climbing by placing their dainty feet in these prints printe and thus thug winning a claim dpn the he young warrior or prince that the footprints were made by human hands I 1 do believe not from an iconoclastic disposition for I 1 would rather have retained my ideal since out of the hoary past has come my confidence in the pre serit and courage to pass the curtains of the future I 1 admit being the one who with my bittle scimitar in the NEWS sought vengeance on the vandals who took this seal of antiquity from our view one gentleman got beneath my nom deplume de plume wd and made apology to him I 1 bow believing it loves labor lost loot my name is on the post card and any person who desires further information upon the subject that I 1 am able to obtain I 1 am at their service or any one wishing to investigate upon the apt for themselves I 1 will gladly take them down there and show all and more than I 1 have tried to describe dese ribe utah the pair fair is rich enough in truth and beauty to stand in her own shoes and attract the admiration of the world without seeking by doubtful footprints to deprive that great city of the th honor for which she has been noted A BIRD |