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Show Outdoor Feature SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1995 13 in Scouting The end of a mystery was a couple ofhatchet chipped and left, hoping that other adBy Royce Young 1918 late the boards that could have framed venturous souls will also leave Approximately Nellie Heaton of Orderville, the entrance. Could it have been an untouched atmosphere for the when but a girl, was searching boarded up at some time? Every thrill of others. Who knows? Its for one of her fathers cows or square foot of the cavern had illusive tendencies may fool one goats. It began to rain so she been probed with a bar or pick as a second time, but I already have maneuvered up against the Elk if looking for a soft place. a couple ofventurous scout troops Heart cliffs above Orderville She happened onto a small crevice and hoping to find shelter by an overhang or cliff, facing opposite the crawled in-n-ot realizing... she was sharing a drenching rain. She happened onto a small crevice and crawled in not realizing until her eyes adjusted to the blackness, that she was sharing a room with two human skeletons. You guessed right! She came out of there like a shot! When her courage returned (exactly WHEN is still a mystery), she could never find the cave again. This was the late room with two skeletons. Partially buried in the sand were: a prospectors hammer with the handle chewed off, a couple of rustic picks, a long hexagonal crowbar, an old shovel, and four glass jugs, full to the spigot with "Brighams Gold". I took pictures lined up who think they can find anything. Oh, by the way, BRIGHAMS GOLD is wheat. And who knows, could that wheat be a disguise for whats really in the jugs? Perhaps the mystery Camera flash lights up the rustic prospector tools and jugs of Gold". Photo by Royce Young. has only begun! nakebif Wendell Heatons recollection. Several years ago, Bill Cox of Glendale, who had some goats As the weather warms up and places where you cant see. get away from him below the white cliffs, recalled that some snakes become more active, Watch where youre walking and forty years previous hearing Utahns need to watch where wear proper clothing and boots. When someone gets bitten by from Nellies lips that the cave they put their hands and feet. Snakebites can make anyone a snake, several things need to was somewhere this side of the Sugar Knoll, and that there were miserable, but attempting to be remembered. You can get very Indian writings and relics of treat the bites without a doctor nervous, but its important to some kind hanging on the walls. can make things much worse, stay very calm. Bill had searched once but in according to a professor at First, stay calm and keep the bite below heart level. Next, kill vain. Then there was the rumor, Brigham Young University. A small amount of knowledge the snake since chances are it near the break-u- p of the United Order, of two gold miners who can be dangerous, said Profes- has not gone far. Many people had mysteriously disappeared. sor Bruce Woolley. You can who get bitten by snakes are Alter the snow gave way un- cause more problems if you do it helping someone else with a snakebite, Woolley said. To kill der a February thaw, the white wrong. Each year, 45,000 people are the snake, crush its head with cliffs beckoned me in search of a something. If this is not posparticular petroglyph panel. bitten by snakes. On the averfasible, however, make a point of Upon locating it (where it wasnt age only 10 bites a year are supposed to be!) I decided what tal usually for children but avoiding it. If two fang marks are not visthe heck, maybe theres another the effects of venom are never ible, do not assume the wound is one and continued looking. The pleasant. instinct of The three families of poison- not a snakebite. Sometimes only knowing where you have been, ous snakes in the United States one puncture mark is visible turned to good fortune. Glanc- are sea snakes, coral snakes and since the other fang has broken to four ing back at the path I had trod pit vipers rattlesnakes, copper- off, and sometimes up since visible be could revealed an unusual hole that head snakes and cottonmouth marks snakes generate new fangs with had the appearance of being snakes. man-madand as part of Bills Although Utah only has new skin before shedding. The second thing to do is put recollection of Nellies story, it rattlesnakes, they come in sevwas partially hidden by a pinion eral varieties, including the somethingtight between the bite tree. It was! Hidden from the desert sidewinder, the western and the heart. You want to rediamondback and the mohave strict the flow to the heart and whole valley below. The first obvious things about green rattlesnake. Caution is get them to the emergency this cave were: 1) No one had the number one recommenda- room. g Do not overdo been there for a long, long, time. tion for avoiding bites from treatments, however. Some 2) A wild goat had set up house- these snakes. Be very cautious, Woolley people use a tourniquet and ice keeping, sleeping in the back end said. Dont put your hands in on snakebites. Unfortunately, of the cave. The self-preservati- on e; blood-restrictin- not-so-obvio- us im? uixn imag Featuring Live Psychics, Sports Fix and Mora 24 Hours Live Psychics Ext. Sports Pix -9- 00-656-6000, . A. .r kV4 you snake venom constricts blood vessels, as do tourniquets and ice. Using both ice and a tourniquet on a snakebite can give the victim gangrene. After restricting the blood flow slightly, the victim should be taken to a doctor. This is important Regardless of whether the snake has actually injected venom into the wound or not. If the victim is too far from a doctor, it may be helpful to suck out the poison. Unfortunately, some people do not realize the of cut should only be an inch long and often give the victims gaping wounds in an attempt to help. After making a minuscule cut one-eigh- th Ext. $2.99 min. Must be 18 years. Pfocgg (jo. -V"VP 6236 Check out the inserts in this weeks paper for some great deals I Free Hearing Tests Scheduled at Kanab Clinic , Take advantage of the opportunity to have your hearing checked. Jeffrey Manwaring, a clinical audiologist, will be providing free hearing assessments at the Kanab Clinic. below the wound, suck the venom, spit it out and see a doctor as soon as possible. Another commonly misunderstood treatment for snakebites is Sometimes people on hiking trips take and feel secure. Unfortunately, is useone vial of less. Injecting four vials of antivenom would help, but the drug in this amount is harmful and should only be administered by a doctor. 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