Show I Ancient ric ent Ruins Uncovered By Explorers in San Juan County Comity Ih II I Jt JI un 11 I f lot d f j jI I S S L S SS S 5 I I S iM S S I r 4 c S S rf r- r w S S e S j 7 4 S f fr i. i iI I I I II jA iL 14 f Z i 5 S S SS S P- P 5 4 5 J In Cave Cavo Springs Jul July 15 Have Have you ou ever forced a tired horse over o the soft soH K s. sands of oC a Southern desert Ila have you ou ever r for miles aft ater J sun sun- gwi to te find food oo and Wn vai l' l for irr IJ your our exhausted pack animals Have you fou ou ever e dug duJ in iii the hot sands sand of or a adry adry ary dry ry creek k bed in search of or water Have Ha you jou ever er followed for fOt days ars a adim adim aim dim im diminishing trail surrounded by never ever ending walls of oC cedar and cov- cov elc red ered by a n. similar path of blue sky sk Have avo you ever evet cusse cussed and coaxed a stubborn stubborn pack mule down the rough roush side of or a mesa canyon Have you ou ever tried to eat a meal cooked on the wind sw- sw s pt face of or a sandy plain Have you OU ever er spread your our blankets on the shifting shifting- sands of or a Southern mesa gazed d into the tho rare blue of oC a cloudless sk sky twinkling lIng with millions of star diamonds and slept the tho Untroubled untroubled untroubled un un- troubled sleep of or a child Have you ou enjoyed an any 0 ethe o j v i j. r u t In DI I If Ie you ha have you OU must certainly return In your our dreams to lo those e places that know not riot a white while mans man's voice olce to those places where herp the Jackrabbit starts with certain surprise from the thc shale of or a 0 sage bush b and eyes your our I approach with marked disapproval I to those places where here tho ho sad faced prairie dor doir OC blinks In contented ness from the brink o of ot his collar cellar home where the raven ra an and buzzard circle ceaselessly sly through h the clear heavens hea In search of their next carnon carrion carrion car car- rion non meal If II you ou would know such lands plc- plc turo ture for or yourself a vast area crossed by y dl dry water-cut water canyons canons whose I rims ms are arc fringed with cedars whoso whose alleys are carpeted with sa sage covered an sand ind an area surrounded ull by a faint purple urple horizon broken now and then theny b by y a n snow snow capped p peak ak and crowned by y a sky Iy never yet surpassed I IA A 5 Picture of nC Ulola Give your picture nn on nil air of oC utter de desolation with no life liCe movements other than the greeting of the tho cedars 10 o tho wind sighing through them anti and ho tho dl Inner of or the heat along the the sky k lines hues I nes Paint your picture ure wit with h absolute lack of or life lire yet yot make snake it Il con con- tam ain tain a mysterious something that holds one willingly In Its ita lap When hen this is done you ou have ha some some- tIling iR yet Cl lack e everything You lack Jack life lIe In tho lie trees In tho the sands in iii the v very ry rocks locks You lack hack tho the colors In Inthe inthe the tho mesas me In the Uw valleys alley In tho lit distant dist dist- ant mountains You have ha not painted the curious little lizards that seek seel flies flics on eu your back backi you lack their larger leuger brothers most beautiful yet et deadly poh poisonous onous you ou lack the tho rattler whose warning comes from from tho thio vacant earth You have hn a ti picture yet jet et It lacks those things which were to make I It realistic You have ha a picture and r et It I Is not y picture because It Is in incomplete No language or canvas as can a adequately reproduce Dime Dam NaS Natures Nature's Na Na- a- a S ture's tures handiwork S Old Saying l io The rhe old saying The prettiest things lungs are arc the hardest to get hot is again proven cn In the case of San Sari Juan county One can not deny dewy that difficulties await aft even the best est of the travelers yet it Is these very ery difficulties that make malee a trip really wo worth Those who have c hn hud had experience In such places must smile broadly ns as the they return return return re re- re- re turn mentally to tho the range The spirit of or the 1110 cowboy is fully described in these lines What care caro we if the trail be bo long If the mountain be cold an and bare o Yo can rido all day lay with a laughing son song And relish relish each evenings evening's fare tare I have said that the he difficulties of ofa ofa ofa a camping party are arc the pleasures of that part party rhe They are Who Vho has not laughed t to see ce ee his partner attempt the capture o cap turo of oC an nil unwilling horse Vho VIo h b has s n hot roared to to s a f iq pack laCk acl an iII r Ill ill tl i I who h ho l hins hs not done lone his best to 10 get a tenderfoot on a a. pitching pony pon Those These are aro the he pleasures s of camp camp not not at the tIll time time- but afterward for Cor for is not a a. pleasure asure a lasting delight N No doubt tho the greatest impediment to o travel In the lie whole hole Southwest is I the scarcity of oC grass and 11 tuter 1 Pro Provisions Pro Pro-I visions can bo be carried on hors horseback back hut but the h i C must t for foi thom them m- m sH e v To prevent pre their pulling out and yet to enable their gathering a scanty supper per the tile animals aJ are always hobbled as ns soon loon a an as camp Is made The loss less abundant the grass th the lie more mOTe apt tho tite horse Is IR to wander during the night Out of pure dislike for or tile the country sonic some ponies will travel fifteen or or tw miles in a n. single f evening The sympathy thy of the entire camp ROCS goes O R Rout out to tin 10 rno l r whose luty It IB is to tf gather th the lie horses harses s ai U such sUeh a time To ro human beings especially those from t the tho c North greatest hardship hardship hard hard- ship I ls Is the lack locI of or drinking water Water Vater of or any kind Is a n. rarity hut but water from rein a cool spring Is a a. luxury However C with experience one be- be u used el to such Much Inconveniences and takes el delight JI h I I In n the tile chance of ot getting water waler at his hlA next camp Every y bo boy d delights to lo pack a n. hOl horse hoise O to tie Ue a 0 diamond hitch Since a tenderfoot Is Is 18 In reality a boy lie he must of course take e pleasure in placIng placing pIne pIne- ing hl his own outfit upon his pack mules mulch If the animal be he a n veteran tinder the Dt nack I lie he wIll he begina ln n series of ot moans moan and groans as aR soon scion as he lie 11 sees 5 the pack saddle but Ir if his Ills knowledge Is limited he will vili try an entirely different scheme to discourage 3 ago age his owner S SAn An sonn soon as aR the saddle strikes him the horse attempts to dislodge It These attempts continue until tho the saddle sad sad- lie dle I is firmly tied in Its pla place c. c Moro More firc fireworks occur while the pack Is b being a adjusted an and the finale when the horse hOlso is untied and led pitching down Iowa the lie road Cou ho Co boy Ci While a cowboy boy will sometimes aid aidone aidone aidone one in saddling an outlaw packhorse he ha will sill never lose a 11 chanco chance to got get ct that same ame person on a Co bucking buckin bronco Why Is it According to tn his story it gives him more real amusement than limn any Now York play house Po Possibly the lie thins thing which tires lIres a n Horse quickest is the depth of sand In n places You can find sand any anyplace anyplace place but at times it is almost Impo im- im po possible to wn walk through it A Added to the tho depth of tho ho sand Mond Is tho the uninterrupted glare of or th the tho sun venting It Its till CUll power lOwer on Oil tho desert traveler 1 I have havo lavo found places so unbearably hot that hat tho sago sage brush was dried up that hat even tho the lIzar lizards s and ants could not live A Again tho the san sand forms Corms In dunes shifting here and there thero After Arter a n day of ot such travel tra a horse will vill usually be O content to sta stay whore you ou put pul him but you yo must first ilist find such uch a a. place Jace Where hero tho ho sand I Is deepest the tho grass rass Is scarcest an and 1 one must when possible have havo both grass nn and ind water Sen Search for Water n To had find water Is often harder than one nc would think Cowboys rely al almost almost al- al most rain standing stand stand- entirely upon water waler ing ng In tanks In the rocks If H there then are aro ro no rocks rock holes are aro dug due In the bed Led I of f some stream You must know that the lie washes contain water r only emily after I Ia a heavy rain For days dayI at a time one may bo 10 forced to drink such water vater and nd his chances are arc unusually shim i if IC there has been no rainfall for more than ban a month A supply of drinking iIlA ate vater is always alays carried on lie tho horses A contrast to the bare I r C t Jb hR W eem co One Onn iii fn l nn in ih t thigh v high point and look 1001 upon hundreds hundreds hun hun- of or miles of f mc a land an antha that tha t rolls a way away like th grays grass ra s covered cO knolls knoll of Kentucky In this clear 1111 atmosphere at at- one can se see more than a ahun hun hundred miles awa avav taint i ridges nf rf cedar stretching tr avav int Inn n infinity fY However r beautiful thi s groves of ce cedar ar and pinon may se seni m on one cart cart- 5 e 4 fI iIi iIiI I r 5 c r V S 'S 4 s v c 1 S' S 44 q II n MN 1 JN C Mill 11 I JT I IN SOLID sOLIn C Canyon on not escape tho the sand an and heat even on evenin In their depths Such cedar e Covered ridges arc are delightful parks to the wearied traveler Un Unbroken Forc t of or Cedar For four da days s at a n. tim timo the party porty has traveled through h an unbroken forest o of cedar trees In such places 8 a guide it is a necessity for COl one must find his wa way not by the trails traUs but by hy familiar landmarks Tho range rang cattie cattle cat cat- tie tIc feeding on the mesa tops make maize a a. network of trials and ros that thatis is indeed puzzling To turn into one of these paths an and after a mile or more sud suddenly en find oneself at r a a. Cater Catering ater- ater ing hole is no uncommon thing Of or course the only thing to do is to re retrace retrace retrace re- re trace your our steps until you find hill the lost trail and then proceed through h the cedars mile after acter nub mile until the rim Is reached reache Here often orten l is a aery avery avery very ery a akward trail Trail Trail- ibi Often Leading down own to tho the valley zigzagging zigzagging zig zig- zagging gln back bael an and forth around Im- Im n l rocs rooKs rocks and a qi no 1 1 t ii Uit H c t nt f rock the only gateway to the be be- e- e yond As en engineering accomplishments accomplish accomplish- ments the these o canyon trails are arc r ut r failures yet l on one feels a as if ho should like to shake hands hanIs with the hO man tuna wIt who first constructed the path Around bluffs on a road mud built of oC I piled II ell up rocks r oc planes places td with logs log one go goes s. s a always alway I avs in S I s c pc W 5 I 1 Jg r KOCK HOCI ix IN c ANYON in BD n iii HUISS S S W uder r f to find those faint nail l arkin s which tell ono one where horses have gone before beCore These are arc th the places where most animals show an nit absolute lack of ot Horse sense 1 cosely closely followed a 0 pack mule will turn turnaround around l land and it Ills Is usually an Impossibility to get sel him faced tho the other way without ex exciting ex- ex citing cHIng the tho whole pack train Pack and horse aro are gono forever fore if th the animal trios tries a short cut cul to the tho valley ulley below Sand ntH and Moro orl Sand After the valley Is reached It Is san sand sand that to never-to-be-gotten- rid of dread of ot footed firm-footed northern ers But that is not all After possIbly possibly possibly bly a dozen miles of or such travel a n adry adry dry camp on the open plain and anI after aCler that a a. meal cooked cooker In the same place Not that one dislikes th the idea of eating eat eat- ing nor nOl the food foo he cats hut but it Is the sand again not on the tile plain but in inthe inthe inthe the bread in the coffee in the tho meat and anti last of or all all In y your ur beth bed Yet after It Is over 01 one cannot help lookIng look look- In Ing back with js m j of or ril pleos- pleos M j 5 t S th h lip ti tin ori t oJ h hof a 1 ta of the party purt are studies in the he ex Ox- Ox x- x rome nut Hut there is pleasure real ical sat sat- ten ven on the bare plain To be able to look up into a clear sky whose those sky line even is unbroken and locate the lie different nt- nt constellations Is a pleasure not hot to be found In every land or to b be experienced every o night Countless Counties Million o of Stars or 01 tue lIle cl clearest Ulue countless countless count count- less millions of or stars stain not little sick sick- looking bodies but stars in inthe the true sense ne of the WOI word each erich one shining a as asif asif if Ie he would outshine every other And AmI then to crown It all comes sleep not the tossing troubled sl sleep ep of th the city but real well weil earned sleep a n. sloop p worth orth while These are the difficulties to be met mety by y the tenderfoot yet who tho ho could coul meet them hem ln and re regret Iet hl his experience Here Hele ono one is Next to Nature is In Iii Communion Com Cam mullion munion with her visible forms It has not been my Intention to lis cUs- an any po possible In Southern Utah far Car from Crom it If m my motives mo mo- tives were requested I should say that hint as a possibility of or enticing more mor people people peo pen into this wonderful c country this article was written It Il ha has he been n m my purpose not to exaggerate the trials trial of the tho country countr hut but rather to give gi a n corr correct ct representation n of or them For Form Formy Formy m my part a month spent in Southern Utah yearly would he be time line well wIll In Invested In- In vested As tho lie guille puts hilts it it This Thi here her country countr will male make a 0 man out of or oran an any boy As for COl the he people they are arc the thC saute same In this respect that lint they meN meet yu ou wherever you ou go with open arms so soto soto soto to speak Never ever have ha I met more fi friendly fondly young people never r more pa parental parental pa- pa rental old on ones s You meet friends on all sides and what th they y can do cIo for your you pleasure will vill not go o undone A trip through Southeastern tern Utah Is well WJ worth while |