Show ili 1 I 4 4 4 f 4 4 j c ti I With The he Explorers 1 In Utah s Wonderland t I I By B BURL ARMSTRONG TT 4 Y Y 79 Y 7 Y 7 9 W Into a Region Almost Unknown Party Journeys to Land Landof 4 of Ruins MOAB THE GATEWAY TO WORLD OF RELICS The Haunts of Prehistoric Man Mane ManWill e Will Soon Be e Reached J by Searchers J rt Utah Juno June 22 t 2 Sai ah J ako e nice HIco others In the he ui kit rh I populated parts part of fir Utah have haYe a o o r 4 t no yin Idea elea of ot tho tha 0 1 J vast ast expanse ft cr territory that come comas within the he r f. f lIn lines linos s ane an and oven ovon tho most ardent b bu w erA ra rs t fI yr I Utah Ula havo sm conc conception r T tho th limitless advantages Is that will nm n I. I tIny day come am from portions of nt Ih the n el ti r now flOw least east known kon tracts of arid land 11 HP i I. 10 II In the tho southeastern part art Ill ui u i ir UM r Some day the magic wand of or hi-a- hi o tion will vIII transform it all Into j f and ranges that will put to sha sham sham- i 1 some of i ho boasted II pardons of W Wyrn- Wyrn om Ju fl Ing Colorado and arni Montana 1 on Ii IIer Herp lie lit tho po of or an nil rm m m I Tire piro c liver II copper and Ol ors orrs o a t leaser value aille and equal N necessity il walt wil wal t In Ill compart masses Is fn in mountains n tat ns tim thai Uta aro practically unknown Close to the Colorado line and not iut over 1 fifty mlle ml 1 I from th the nearest rolI point UK UH p Lisbon Valley and BI Big HIg Indian Cuppe J. J 4 companies I 31 are aro turning out high grade I ores 4 and before lit iho end 1 of f another year yelI a railroad 1 will bo he run LII to the mountain The Jhc Lisbon valley properties will iII rival HIngham a as ns u a copper camp Callip and tile the e es t s of ot the t to fl a n 11 new w mining section The rill rilla a vast 1 ranges upon which mo tIIt O now no herded thousands upon thousands holI c Vi Vir T t of artl and sheep she do not com coin par In expanse with the arid lands land tu r can an b be reclaimed with water watI mm the I Colorado tho Grand or III tilt the 1 1 Some one wants wants' to In Mop Imm I because our country J Is J 1 Je I J HJ r tJ hi ll 4 I fl I 4 l J lr QU f un- un e for Tor days without o encountering rin L 7 mor mohl than hon an nit occasional iona cattle il fi i seldom om u ted wa wagon on rond and nt at rare tnt Intervals a n ranch hou house hoti I I S The explorers I took a n trip aIo across the t desert lert It 1 Is a mere rc matter of or 70 iO r miles from loa to 1 ont c lIo This i j Is not ot the tho exact distance because no noone t F I one knows th the distance It Is t variously estimated and I think th the 70 jO mlle would hit il It and and that by as 09 nearl nearly a direct line as po possible A Al I r horseman n may lap ore off a few fw w miles v t from the tho wagon wag trail The nie party part left Moab Moal early In the I morning with a n slow freighter bound for or to get n a load loati of lum turn ber her At Poverty Flats Flat tOn ten miles I from fromI Moab the p party ut camped campell It want wasn't quIts quite time limp for fol dinner linner but the taking I of grub is rt regulated h by the location Yr of or water At Poverty Flat there ther I Is III a creek of melted snow now and It Is dirty 44 but hut It Is lit like lile th the la n ast t roadhouse on the I J d way wn oUI out o of town and w we e drank and hI filled oui ow walI bag C and nd ca canteens It or The sun vun un wi 1441 10 rid and the th trail wa was J S 4 S I 4 I J S S S 0 p. p 4 I A J S 'S ti 5 z J S 7 k S u II ri Tin TIll Tini i l nt iti i shown in ii llio t i ilion u per P I t I lion ion i OH of l 1 tins this Ii is ha tono 11 If show t two V views Ws S of the t Grand ail Valley nIley Looking Looking- through h a window window- I lik like liko opening o in I the lie solid rook rok tile the III pretty ty I towi OW own of oc r loah is js soon sern in the Ilic distance list ance This town is fa far from froni being being- baek- baek I ward j ward its its tS progress progressiveness veness being heing notable notwithstanding notwithstanding not not- I withstanding the fat fact apt that it is almost shut shutout I out ont from froni the tho world its only link with the tho restI rest rost I of or the tho world heing heinga a 1 stage SInge coach line carrying ex express ress and mails J Another view V O shows show's the thc fertile farm falIH lands n watered cd l by hY I the tho Grand LiV VW li J th 1 the fertility of b d lie iI l illO Ji 9 rth iii S ij ll ih till l d fe at the 6 o or l eol f fUR n v I town I Tn the tho lower pie hi re Professor Protessor stands with a fi native dipper in iii his hand This j dipper is woven from vegetable fibers and shows show the skill skin o of or the Cliff Dweller squaws sq sandy mu and dusty I IOnee Once Onee out of Ul the valley the fr freighter I wove Its wa way up through the tho canon canyons canyons can can- on and over the tho always climbing higher and often circumnavigating circum navigating na a canyon for fOI two miles to 10 get a quarter of a mile nearer the tI destination nat Ion The Th geological formation rapidly changes once one Is out of the Grand valley valle As the trail skirts the La Sal SalI range at a safe distance the red roil sandstone sandstone sand sand- I I stone changes to rocky precipitous us cliffs cHUB and ond canyons and antI to mesas covered coy cov I ered d with sagebrush and ond scrub pine I eo cedar eda and allt cactus Once past the La LL I J r-i r AWaN J I f h hI I J r t. t q N tI t i SIs the formation n lin 4 h hO I. I 1 I si then theio l Is th the t light i 1 d l 1 m lIld Ii In III round topped mounds h gi aWl walls valls barren of vegetation Often On a cliff rises to a sheer Cheer height of feet teN and at ut close range not a crack or flaw can be seen Th There re Is always In in this formation the effects of what must have been an earth- earth I submerging flood Mo Maybe b it tt was the flood that Noah rode Here and and- andI I there a corner Is lopped oft off a 0 big ble canyon wall and ond It may have been blen contact with the ark that loosed it Uv I S At one place pace the lines left apparent apparent- I l i h li fi Ind v nr JOT ersy p U nd a un n I i III l 1 l Uin lf lou and a It at gnal I hol Is torn lorn in th tho Ihl ruck reck an and It It too IOU Is worn won smooth b by the swirling cur cur- rent t. t j CUI Away Awny out on n a barren mesa inea stands stants Mirror l Rock flock It Is a gigantic mound I I o of sandstone with a n hole clear through it From th the trail nail the fht hole s seems Em feet felt In diameter and through It 1 0 one sees the sit sky beyond It looks like a n mirror but It Hence the name At night we wu camped at Hatch Hotch Wash Vo If It you have never be been en there ther you OU haven't missed anything If It you have you lOU can ean appreciate this story ston 55 1 J S. r JL 4 a r. r t who WIlO performed the tho greater part of the work in m and about their homes in the tho sides of the mountains so closely lese resembling lug a n honeycomb lh on edge On the improvised ed table are seen true Indian blankets r pottery and woven wo water jugs ings and other curios collected J 1 by Prof Williams in in the tho wonderful San Juan country Within the eire circle e Professor or ron Byron Cummings Cum Cum- ming R is soon spen with ou one oT ol tile the woven baskets strapped to hi his lus back hak in iii the manner they were carried by hy the hundreds squaws of years ago With these those h baskets on their hacks backs the T 1 I I i t r w 11 d rl ul lith th 1 9 4 S h d-h 1 tI 1 h 1 1 1 b h m m 1 lf ab-lf v r f provisions W lu eat car nod ried up the tho long rope ladders hilders and into the tho homes of the 01 first settlers settlors of or the tho wonderland in m that tita t corner of t I tho ho world whore w Utah ria h A Ari Arizona ri- ri zona and 1 Now New ew Mexico r xico form an nn angle of Junc hire ture S 1 out oLit of a a. low flat Int Is IA 1 n big rock loel long it is If- solid rock too and for fr the most J part alt after the trail lIall rises to lo the proper height the rock Is th the roadbed The fhe trail leads lends around the tho east ast end and then down into the wash t A wash Is u a shaped cup I Ir freak r ali of nature through which floods tear on a rampage rampage sometime A Along long tong range I leads ads Into the wash from tho the east and the tho wind vind gets a clear start across the sand We 0 who were on hor horseback had a fire ready for the I freighter and Its UR passengers ers when the they arrived It wa Wl dark dad and the horses hors's had a n hard trial descending tr Into tho thio wash Supper Stirrer was vas started and there started a fl conflict between n wind nod man to see C whether the grub would b be cooked with or 01 without sand Th The wind Wild won and to give ivo good measure I I threw In a cold pelting rain The supper was not pleasant The rho night I was wa-l spent In the tho sagebrush and on th the lee side at that but the sand and man mau drifted his material over ever every sleeper Cattle came caine to the wash along In inthe tho the night and stampeded the horses It was the first real experience of camping QUI and it didn't make anyone anyone any any- one So good d humored The trail was hit at sunrise with 35 r. r r Few Know Little and Many Nothing of This Phase of Western Life S STORES OF TREASURE AWAIT DEVELOPMENT Mineral Riches Unbounded Lie Hidden Hide In Mountains of ofSan ofSan ofSan San Juan County S SmIles t miles to and onel no go ho hI fresh sh wat water r left All iho the water vater between Wash and tho the mountains 30 10 o miles mile away lies 1111 In a tank Ju just t off the trall five mij miles from flom Hatch Wash ah This l S tank lank I In Is a natural r reservoir oll Iel Tho water Is III sta stagnant drink wh tIC nicy tiey want vant and LlIo the hf ret rest e Ye could lake Sake It ft or 0 Irl It If e SC c took S SS S hll riding ahead of oC S Sr the freighter ht i i r overtook I a a. r of oC cowboys and C e. Snow supervisor of tho ti-ic farest forest for far est rc reserves el c on th the La ra Sal al anel Blue DIlle mountains who was vas piloting renco a n new lIew forest foit t rangerS to his l post on the rl ridge g- g The rhe cow- cow hoy hOyM mid had a drove o of hOlg horses s and were ore taking them out on nil the tho cattle range ranse Xo No o one objected to a 3 tenderfoot JoinIng Join Join- tog Ing and we wo Jogged alon along through h several Ic chapters of a phase of oC wc western vestern t rn life that row fow have hav the Iho good fortune fortuno to experience Vo Vu killed rattlesnakes mak makI I I have o some rat rAttIe HOB to prove o that we n e did It ell lt rounded up and covered n n. whole lot Jot or o. ground Io In Ina a short time Wo In lii o 4 hours hour before the finish freighter tr tor with Pro Pro- fc lessor ss 01 and the tho rest a S i A At t the tho toot foot of of the thC Sha Shay mountains mountain S I whore where th the tho trail load leads uj Up through l Po- Po etT e- e tT ter tors s canyon the Carlisle Carll ranch we wo u up nt nU almost t I every bit or f Running Thom down null and clubbing thorn then a aP n. n P p j t. t il i th il-th UK ugh i t hi Il W was s HT f. f ti Yat l J ll MI M- M I rr If thu If-thu tho j r pushed Its lip up thru that cam canyon Canon on they the performed nn an alI atI al- al I most superhuman fi feat at Almost duo due t I vc t n-c- n st rc-st t 1 y th-y h. h cr cruised d tho thic Colorado rind and t the traversed COO country nt ry that t Won hi have broken l fn t the thO spirits of or Jc less s. s h hornier heroic I people rh The rho trail lends leads through h tho wildest portion n of oC tho the Near J the tho top wo we lodo rodo through a n cold rain S but at It th tho 6 summit we Coun found oun l 1 lu J of s I sheep sheen grazing In the sunshine and the scattered d hOIl houses p of oC the settlement settle settle- ment nent of off ott In the distance dis r Lance tance At the Carlisle ranch lanch one of tho largest t in the West cst an appetizing meal was wa set before us The ranch Is s live 11 miles es from TIll The freighter had barely been un unloaded tin un- loaded t when Fred Freel A A. A Scranton a ayoung ayoung young oung engineer of Salt Lake r reined his horse hOIse at Cummings camp He lie had ridden 45 43 miles R that day to overtake overtake over over- take the explorers Ho Lie I takes Ben IJen place in iii th the tho party ProfS Prof'S Professor or Hewelt Hp and Dr Ir McCurly are aro expected tomono and th expedition will put putt putout out our f. f for Bluff |