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Show New Maps Of Kaiparowitz Plateau Place names like Cat Well, Scorpin, Setdown, Sooner, and Last Chance will now become recognized, authenic nomenclature among people who traverse for any purpose cliffs and gorges of the rough Kaip-arowitz Plateau country south and east of Escalante. Ron Whiting, project supervisor, and his assistant Harry Campbell are now completing a series of accurate maps of the region for the Topographic Division of the U.S. Geological Survey. For the past five months they have traveled by truck, motorcycle, horseback, and on foot over most of the 708 square miles of the terrain they have mapped. They have reviewed topographic maps previously made from aerial photographs, have studied one published list of place names, and have consulted more than twenty livestock owners who use the Rimini aa luugt v tie or have used It for sheep. Bureau of Land Management employees have also been helpful. One of their chief problems has been to ascertain authentic place names. Generally they have used older names employed by cowmen and sheep men In preference to those gratitously bestowed by visiting magazine writers, Boy Scout troops, even technical researchers, who, when they find canyons and natural arches and bridges unmarked by names, feel duty bound to christen them. Local people are alternately amused and annoyed by this practice. Other old and historically interesting names shown on the new maps include, for canyons and gulches: Rodgers, Reese, Roundy, Colletts, Davis, Batty, Fools, Paradise, Soda and Coyote. Natural bridges such as Stevens, Phipps, Lobo, Jug Handle, Gregory, Broken Bow, Nemo, Escalante, and Moqui Window are shown. Places like Smoky Mountain, Forty-mile Dance Hall Rock, and the Hole-ln-the-Rock road can be spotted. The area covered by the maps includes, besides the Kaiparowitz country, nearly all of the desert extending to the Escalante River on the north and east and to Wah-weap Creek and Horse Mountain, Just south of the Caanan Mountain on the west and south. Topographic maps such as these are made to be used by all those engaged in geologic those mainly concerned with mineral and water investigations. They facilitate study and application of flood control, soil conservation, range re-seeding, and reforestation Any persons, even pleasure seekers, can consult these maps with full confidence in exact location of all natural features, also of man-made features such as roads, trails, improved water-holes, and camp grounds. The maps will be available about May 1969. and can be obtained bv writing the Distribution Section. Geological Survey. Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 |