Show ll I WHERE WI-IERE A CIVILIZED PEOPLE DWELT T BEFORE THIS i I ERA WAS W AS THOUGHT OF I I i I I I I I I t. t t I Vt G I 1 p. n tI I C I ris UPON UPON- I PO Pr In St ti It BI I c- c 2 H. fl t H r ri OT r io FOR NOTHING C I G GI I I ft I TRIP INTO ivro THAT 1 V. IM jj n p AVY I Ii i if MAY LOOK LOOK XA M I Ii I I KIIN I uN n DAY Y lEX II I SRiV seix I PK h j L O THAT f is BIg vAir O roi IT ITS I II I 11 ga 1 r. I t. t io T o 01 Of 1 sc SE E nI of A AND O 1 TOR lOJ I 1111 MYS n- n l or 1 rn n TM I vr I. I A 1 r. r J Ii t J Ji ti L u 5 rL 1 f ri IT Irr E SIl I. I I i posH pos pos- OS AGO T re I S r i IRn rj i I ST Sl I IX U WORK 01 it H LL OP or rJ ix EX- OP 01 l' l I. XI or- or l I 7 1 CE OP Of THOSE Will WHO WOULD LIFT Till ritz 1 Pt I I I 00 ro 7 i I r lr I j. j t 1 i l 1 11 I i 1 I f r. f.- f. i I f I i. i It I. I U c o r. r ap 11 In L oS o- o S l tO rl t 4 1 I J Bl 1 f t F f iIo T Jj I t jl lJ 1 j 1 J I. I t H ot ott t 1 1 a p. p iL a 1 Wr j. j I tf I Y a I l. l R. R IA JJ 1 frO II r I Ii I. I l Hi it r 1 J N L oi 1 rII 2 L fj 1 q o iY Io i to r- r tt t- t Jj S r. r e i T i t t c. c 1 r 4 1 A 1 jj t.- t. r J 1 i tr t tl t- t t t b I. I l l ii I t t t sr I r. ly r a II i it II l- l rL l'-rL rt t TI Tm f CI t Ui l I LI Eli t pack p n c I animals an I ma l s cinched to 0 a tight squeeze and j c. c- r iy horse In fi heavy ha marching order orI Pint Prof Id- Id Ed Edgar C gay gar L. L H Hewett anti and Proto Prof t tyron Byron yron Cum m In led party from ron I Blu T this Ihl morning for 01 a most remarkable remark able ahl trip Into tilt the wilder regions of ofSan Q San Juan county count The length th of time tl-ne I to be lj 1 consumed among tho ruins of or this unknown put part of the country will III depend upon Ui discoveries ma math marl do lon canyon will be scanned for fot and the tho explorers c will continue con con- the profitable search started In In 1 can canyon la last t week eol I J BlUIt wore wr VCr n hed- hed no 10 to Journ earn of or th the Jn Jno r o In tot tot- o folh d hore lt lIt party arty has hasI I C an n l E-l t f i ih h by lY iT nho n n SC ev- ev l l ns have lm been In 11 1 and a great at deal of or pottery ottery ins ms beun been taken rom the hidIng hid hid- Ing ng place place- pt c of or centuries centuries- rhe The mounds OI lad iad wen boen given a haphazard probing T and ind here 1 re and there great gleat quantities of or pottery h had hll ll hon boon unearthed but the tho people had hall long ago given up hope hop of or finding anything more mon In the Immediate vicinity of or their village Prof I r. r Hewelt tt However el l Is an old enc euc minter aw anil l h no lH o has h Il as a I methodical Astern m of or excavating which seldom alls alis to bring hiring to sight of ot alue There Then Is always a burial mound lose Close to ti t tie ruins of oC ancient pueblos pueblo While many man of or these se mounds may ma have been dug Into Inlo unless a n rJ person understands their construction It Is Isery very try dlO difficult cult to find everything burled within it it without turning ov over r the I whole mound Prof Hewett's method is to block off the mound in six foot plots and dig systematically where other shovels have not been force forced In Inthis Inthis Inthis this manner by b digging Into one or two of or the six foot squares an and 1 with witha a knowledge of or the system of or burial used by the aborigines It can be quickly quick quick- ly ascertained SC where here the skeletons and antI the tho pottery potter lie The pot lOt hunters oC ot other othor days las dug dugat dugat at nt random In a mound and made malle no systematic search In many of oC the mounds they uncovered largo large collections collections of rare pottery pott l' l hut but the tho discoveries 1 cov- cov cries eries were due Ul to in accident more than to skill 1111 Abundance nice Si ill Left Lefi I Gi-c Gi Great at collections of or ancient ancl nt pottery have been heen taken from rein the San Juan drainage but there Is still In t tue wearth earth enough pottery to stock every museum In n the th country Only a systematic search earch through the countless ruins I that hat dot the canyons and tho sand fiats lats lIat will bring to light lIht all 11 the secrets of or the th ancl ancient nt peoples who were here before th tho Indian or the white man The aborigines had a peculiar method meth meth- od ati of burial The rhe body was bent bonn Into shape to lit fit tho the pattern of the torte undertaker The he legs were wele bent j I sot set at right anglos an- an an angles anglos an with the knees knoes glos with the trunk of the tho body hody The I lower ower limbs were bent back bucl and the under tho the hOlly body toes oes were curled up und r The arms alms were WE're crossed In tho the space halt half enclosed by legs l and hOlly body pottery pottery pottery pot pot- tery was vas laid Often the receptacle contained food a 4 custom you ou may re remember remember remember re- re member that is h still followed by hy the In s some mt mtr Chinese in th their lr own country tl decayed the Of r the tho dishes found with hones bones of ot human beings in the Ow mounds near nar Bluff Blurt we found decomposed matter matter mat mal ter tel in the bottom and aVi ah examination that it was foo food tL Most oC ot the IiO hows lm H r ft t 1 1 4 10 It fk skeletons M t were re i lI ail y y yu ou ama anu hooPs bonos could couIll not bo he fitted together An archaeological map man of or the San SanJuan SanJuan Juan Juani drainage Is now In the court course e ot of construction con This party Is making a amal map mal O of ot the uncharted canyons an and will ruins and ond the government It a CUI as soon as ns it has IH been n completed Many of oC the canyons In iii this drainage do not appear on the amp Geographically Geo GlO graphically they th y are arc not important because the they contain neither trail nor nOlO water The few that are arc blessed ll with vegetation are alo used for fOl or ranges by b the cattlemen in this section eUon ArchaeologIcally h however W CI these canyons are Important Im Im- ha- ha The They contain ruins of fallen relics or of prehistoric man cities the tIme the evidence of or ancient culture that thaI have great beating bearing upon American archaeology and antl am ethnology The Tho and Utes who how have been helping us dig Into the mounds ol of I Cottonwood canyon have havu taken n ij no- no Z I s i- i Ti t V rumbled ANnuli r lom culiar Interest In the work This hl in interest In- In h. h terest Lerest rest lags however ho when they dont don't find Why dont don't you ou dig em on bill hili asked Joe Bishop a 0 well known Ute lie pointed to Bluffs Bluff's little sorrow sorrow- field on a knoll west wesl of town 1 You catch em m plenty bones he added addel in Sn support of his suggestion You going to to be Mormon Joe I asked Prof Hewett No not that I know now of answered red the archaeologist Why hy You wear em m long whiskers replied replied re le re- re plied the Indian pointing to the protessor's professors professor's pro pro- I fessor's sprouting beard I Will Ill Chango I th lime tho Map I Four of oC the tile party part have completed surveys of Cottonwood anti and Recapture canyons mat king all the ruins and anti clift cliff dwellings The rite Recapture runs parallel to the tho Montezuma and extends almost to the Blue mountains To ro map It properly get every tributary in Its right place note all th the ruins and ond give notations on the g geological formations tofU form a n task that Is by no m means nnA ens easy Drown Brown and Scranton on op th their lr way I hack back from tile e head of or Recapture rode rodo I h rt Cross n Into V u C ma nta and found a tributary canyon in which there thero Is a fossil of or the lizard specter species nearly feet relt long Cowboys Cowboys Cow Cow- boys bys had lied chopped pieces of the antediluvian ante ante- but hut for the most part Iho tho body hOlly remains Intact The t. reptile is hl pt petrified Tho The toes ot of it its many maity legs are ale larger thun a marts mans head and its body Is partly burled In the earth carth It roam roamed over this section in another geological age In the San Juan drainage drain drain- I ago age there are arc many fossils though few of or them have been boen found And when whan Creations Creation's early work was done do What crude b beginnings OU out of It baos came came came- A formless nebula huJa n a t wavering Ha Hame me An comet a n. voracious sun And sUB Still unable to perfect Ills liis plan What awful cr creatures at at his hIli touch found Thoo protoplasmic monsters mom or of the thc earth That owned the UtO world before Tie ire fashioned fash lonell man The San Juan river Is a stream covering a broad area of quicksand quicksand quick sand and mud mull At tints this time of or thuy the thu I y yar ar the stream docs does not fill on Its Us be bed bod d but jut rambles ram hies across riffles rimes for hundred of or miles mile carrying can driftwood and mu mull Into tho the Colorado Th The Tho river r is as oc- oc centric an as It is unattractive East oi o of fluff Bluff about 26 25 miles some Nava on Oil the reservation atlon built hullt an Irrigation ditch across s a n long Hat lIat on the side Hide of oC the tite San Juan Not long afterwards after after- wards tho the river r overflowed It U hUm bank and cut through the ditch When tin th I HOIK had bad subsided tho the course of thet the t tam tn-am rutin was as through h the ditch litCh instead I i f 1 Ih the old run jun and about IOU families were wen l left Itt ft on omi the north side of the th San I Juan Th The Tho river ilven had hall been the north north- orn rn boundary of th the Navaho reserva reservation tion lion but because of the freakish turn nurn I a In the stream an agency was established and the tho line Ithe extended to Montc- Montc Kuma suma creek Solemn San Juan County I San Juan county is as os la lill rye as ns some eastern states slates Merely a small fragment ment has been be ll surveyed the rest I Is 16 d desert er mountains and arid mesa metla Down here the people count days as t s I we vc count hours In Salt Lake Lale Time is nothing to them Events transpire so I slowly in the lie simple life oC ot San Juan that when something happens happen here it marks marl a nt new w epoch and a new cycle is It opened Imagine a wasl wasted d expanse from the Colorado line on the east cast to the Colorado river r on the thee west ivest e t the tho th Lasal mountains on the north and the Arizona line lino on the thc south south here here and arI there ther a fertile spot now and then a 0 village of cattlemen n and their families but mostly a a. barren banen uninviting corner of th the earth Jt It tI Is far from rein l- l railroads ho a out of the way of or the world and as UZI remote re re- remote I 1 inthe in inthe mote as any anyone one could possibly get the United States Stater But this region is i full fail of promise and if it there Is promise In San Juan county count Utah there is I abundant promise anywhere rc In the trtat Besides the cattle and anti sheep beep raising now raising now u II profitable Industry Industry- and d the farming on the th ranches trY 1 In spots there is plenty of ot mineral here The fhE Golden Queen and other m mines nes arc finding enough nough gold to make the tho t earch Ich worth while At creek near n Bluff lurr there is of coal conil Copper Coppel is IK found In iii the tho Ln aJI and elsewhere in li the Ehe county have h have are found amethyst garnet variety sliver silver malachite and copper OPP 1 Placer gold cold mining Is la paying I well and antl south of or the tho San Juan west vest of Bluff there are arc ma many properties now no being Ing worked cd The rho M Mexican lint I company is panning gold ut Ut- Uta a handsome handsome hand hand- some profit After l looking on Duller Butter and ind Comb canyons canyon ten miles mite west of Bluff we leave ton for Moonlight l crossing the San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan at nt Comb putting southwesterly southwesterly south south- westerly across Iho tho Navaho reserva lion tion Wo We expect to reach rench John Veth trading post in two or three days This post l is h R th the tho farthest est st from railroad of or any in the United States Mr freights from Gallup N. N M. M and U H requires twenty t days clays to make tho the round lound trip The rhe distance distance dis dis- ls- ls tance is S 1 70 8 We Wo Vc will visit Monument Monument Mon Mon- valley which Is by far Cat lh th the mosi most beautiful natural park parI in the tho West Went Tho The Garden of the Gods in Colorado hoes does not begin to compare with Monument Mon Mon- park purk Some da day r the Government Govern ern mont ment will make malto It ii a national park anti lud then a a. stage line will cal carry ry toUrIs s Into the of or images Wo Vc wilt will lake iak In the ruins ot of I Moonlight ht gulch and und vork orl north to ih the Iw Sun Juan river ilver again a aln We Ve expect I Ito to continue through Grand gulch and through the natural bridge region rl lon go continue up UI through White While and Park Dark canyons and cross ClOS the Elk Elle ridge c on will be which Monticello the VU way to practically nome I Comb Ridge c Utah July G 5 with I Cummings exploration party t ThIs party This distances is a n country countr of magnificent I stood high up on ono one of the man many teeth tec-lh of Comb Ridge Hl S and looked looked- looked again and th then n round 1 a wonderland wonderland won won- derland unveiling un Itself before me The first glimpse one gets bC S upon reachIng reach reach- Ing log the topmost point of or t u U. U commanding command command- ing ridge c Is the tho rolling vista of or waste 1 wounds the wounds the The earth bares bare all lt It Its lasting scars sears of or a titanic geological I struggle Distance deceiving decel mesas ate are seamed and ond soared seared with wah canyon jutting jutting jut jut- ting Ung cliffs ell ITA and rolling roiling mesas of or sand sand- immediate surrounding as stone The Tho caught at nt first t glance shows the tho desert waste antI and a picturesque map of or washes and dry stream sti Moun Moun- better detail comes Then a loom up till In time the distance and Natures Nature's groat gre-at rent scheme of or drainage e bursts burst forth with convincing clearness No o map could show us clearly what elevation of can uan bo be g seen n from an feet feel cot in thi this tl desolate dr s date wn waste vaste te call called ll SanJuan Son San Juan Junn county To tIne tho north and amI west vest is 19 the tho Elk EIl ridge forty or 01 t fifty Ly miles away looming up UI like an Immense Immen e rocky rock wall vall topped with trees Leading awa away whose whosel of or canyons scores score from rem it are arc Identity l Is lo lost t in tho the labyrinth ol ot cliffs and find mesas Almost due north are the thc s or Blues as they are nr more commonly known an Immense pile splendid and t ma and a n landmark that one docs does n not t lose 1010 for hun hundreds of or miles nilles s The Tue mountains are blue and they the tho form orm a n harmonious part parl of ft n ma master naster picture in which rod red and gray sandstone blend hi end softly into the green of or the tho cell cedars u-s u and anti the green gray I of oC the and atul sagebrush I Sees SN'S Colorado and Arl J rl-iona rl To 10 the tIne cast away over o In Colorado the San Juan mountains proudly IRish l I their heir snow Capped peaks Into to tho the panorama pa pan a. a I is than HiO or orama of or beauty It more miles to 10 the i now line the source ol ur till the skyline sky sl- the tho San Ian Juan Junn river tr Following line lIno that bounds tho the San Sait J Juan drainage drain drain- ago age the tine Ute mountains almost title due last east thrust themselves es boldly into place Off orf to the south in Arizona ni arc the ilu lalli os a |