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Show Sun Advocate. Price. Utah - Tuesday. Mav 13, 1997 5A Archaeology group schedules rock art tour of hidden San Rafael Swell sites By LAYNE MILLER Staff writer A local archaeology group is planning a fundraising tour into little known rock art and historic sites in the San Rafael Swell. The Castle Valley Archaeotour will visit petroglyph sites in Big Hole Wash, a site located along the Old Spanish Trail and Cottonwood Draw on the east side of the rugged San Rafael Swell on logical Society May 24. We will also visit the old railroad grade that was built in the San Rafael Swell in 1881, said tour chairman Roberts Hackney. Over $200,000 was spent on the railroad grade but no track was ever laid. There are the remains of houses where the Chinese workers lived while working on the railroad and other historic sites there. The Old Spanish Trail was a heavily used route from California to old Mexico in the 1700s. One branch of it crossed the Green River at the town of Green River, then stretched north along the east side of the San Rafael Swell. It passed Big Hole Wash College of Eastern Utah Prehis- plete the multilayer certification toric Museum. Part of our by program. laws say we will support the This is a unique opportunity museum, explained Hackney. for those interested in archaeA high clearance vehicle, ology to learn more about the sturdy walking shoes, water, a subject and actually work at a camera with plenty of film and dig with professional archaeoloinsect repellant are recom- gists, said Hackney. It is a mended for people planning on great program. The tour will leave the Colparticipating in the tour. A Dutch oven lunch will be lege of Eastern Utah Museum provided for participants along parking lot in Price at 8 a.m. the tour route. For additional information out that Hackney pointed regarding the fundraising construction of a picnic facility event, contact the CEU mu2 in Nine Mile Canyon is now seum, Hackney at or Jeanette Evans in Wellington being constructed west of Canyon. Construction of by May 20. public restrooms is now underway and construction of a pavilion with picnic tables will soon begin. Plans call for a small amphitheater with concrete fire pit to be built and restoration of a historic cabin and ranch is also underway. Members of the archaeology society can become certified amateur archaeologists who can work hand in hand with profes! sionals at archaeology digs Dr around the state once they com 637-048- Ar-gy- le , PAIN RELIEF STRESS RELIEF where large holding tanks scoured in the sandstone can- Local artist sends purple heart to Washington Carbon County artist Gary Prazen prepares tall purple heart into a to put this eight-foot crate in preparation for shipment to Enumclaw, Wash. The giant colored award VFW BODY ALIGNMENT yon bottom provided water to the teamsters and their mules. Travelers eventually crossed over the northern part of the San Rafael Swell, then followed the present route of State Road 10 through Castle Valley. The trail followed Salina Canyon into Salina and on to California. The money we raise will go to the picnic facility now being built in Nine Mile Canyon and some will be donated to the group RELIEF FROM CHRONIC HEADACHES laudations' WHOLE I c$iatuli IHaue cJfhuxuda on yaux iecenl MASSAGE Integrated Bodywork Jack Kobe, &A L.M.T. 894 E. 100 N. 2 cHuott Sc of Price 637-200- accomplishment. utinnex uuih hex talent anil lev smile', tutd th laic 0 dmm S&micv was sculpted from bronze and steel and will be erected inside a wooden pavillion in a local park in Enumclaw. The project has taken about two years to complete. -. Mid May Monster Special Now under new ownership of Chet and Nicole Rackley Grand Opening Prizes to be given away DAILY Close Out 0r W Whirlpool Dryer or Whirlpool Washer jlerdster to ITin 'Si flr W O' GIFT GBEm5 to be given awzy StnrDry, May 17 (no purcharc ncccessary) Come in for FliBH Hot C: Coca-Co- la Dos, Ellisons on Saturday, May 17 EVERYTHING Bookshelf Stereo Canon Camcorder ISxZoom with IN THE MENS DEPARTMENT o o CD player o o o o o o o o o excluding accessories EVERYTHING La-z-b- At IN THE WOMENS DEPARTMENT oy Recliner ;fnt ;o 75 o o t excluding accessories Save $100 r 0 0 0 TrDOl CyuD00K D0 oo o o o o oo |