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Show i A Flower Garden I a Million Years Old 9 ;h Tho following article wus written by Mr. Frank Evorsoll1 Wm vll wsd Tiinpanogos Cav'o recently, which no doubt will uB ' be of interest to the local people. Ifli ; Anybody who knows much of anything Ls wise to tho fact JJI; that the great Wasatch range of Utah in the result of tho H; greatest "fault" known to geological science. This h; neat crack can be traced from northern UUih to nj fho Grand Canyon of tho Colorado. Tho bed of (heat j i. Salt Lake is supposed at one time to have been nearly as I I j lB or on a lovol with the present peaks of tho Wasatch, but If I no d"y t fell with a loifd splash and loft a lot of dinosaurs ill!; -hit on their backs ' LI j Although I wasn't present nt tho 9; tlmo, I know that tho great crack wns mm' iittondcd by u lot ot Btnallcr cracks MM that shot both wnys from tho axis and 10 1 filled tho Wasatch mountains with jl I moro faults than all tho minors havo hH ' been nbl0 to locato since. Dofore and 819 1 after tho hot waters camo up from I way down deep nnd filled tho cro vices with tho Rold, sliver, copper and lead that we aro using today. Up near th0 top nt the mountain In American Fork Is ono of theao gigantic cracks that tho wators did not fill. Qod evidently reserved It for a special pur'pono and painted it up with crystals for tho delight of KB subsesuont gonerattonB and embryo Rf J mining engineer. Iffl TlnipuRogOR Cto ' Thoy tall it Tlmpanogos cava and M I It carrloB a wealth of crystal forma- m r tlons that mako It one of tho real at- U j tractions of tho nation. Tho hurried a nlghtsoor oxclulmc passionately that I I ' It's "real cute" or "simply beautiful." I - and hurries on, but I got a doso of It I that T 'will long romomber and tor n I i tlmo I was in communication with the IB 8 Creator as I looked upon His works I and stumbled along In tho footsteps jfl of long ago. gj Dana Parkinson ot tho U. S. for- I a estry sorvlco took me up thoro bo- jf i cause ho said they were fixing to I II change tho lighting system. Ho didn't Sjj know wliat he wns leading mo Into .j M or T guess ho wouldn't havo took and fl 91 done it. ! Anyway, wo arrived at the foot of the trail and here was Doc J. B. II Broaddui, than whom there Is bo il , more enthusiastic photographer In 'H - the worjd. He's an optician ty trade ilfi , and T guess ho makes money at It because ho had a lot of paraphenalla thoro that must hav0 cost money. Ho la ono of thoso who hoa tho fooling In his soul that Nature has done some beautiful things and he likes to bo out nnd look at 'em and take pictures of 'cm. Kvory onco In a whllo you will pick up a magnzlno and you will see sonio plcturo that Doc. took. Most r.ny day you will read In tho dally papers that ho dollvorcd a lecture Bomowhero and his thomo is always tho namo "Tho Natural DeautlCB of Utah." Ho likes thorn for what thoy aro part ot the best work that Na-turo Na-turo ovor accomplished. His pictures of Hryco canyon and Zlon canyon, p.nd hidden beauties in tho ohope ot waterfalls that ho hoa sought out will bo a rovolatlon to futuro gono-ratlons. gono-ratlons. Holl spend a wholo day climbing up and down with a heavy pack on tits back Just to got on good oxposuro of a vista that appeals to his oyo. He's boon , doing It for twelve yoars as a sldo issuo to his main business of selling glassca to peoplo and he Is now becoming recognized as an authority on what Utah has to otter to tho world. I asked him If he had any religion and ho said that tho rollglon of tho mountains moun-tains was good enough for him. UP THE THAIL Woll anyway, wo mot Doc and his eldo-klck, Al Pypor, at tho foot of tho trail and they had big reflectors of 160 candlo power and other Junk that goes la this photography1 game. It was a question or getting It up tho mountain and being too heavy for light work, I didn't Join until we had reached an altitudo of 40,000 feet. I got my second wind and carried ono of thoso roflootors tiabthor 60j000 feet to the portal or the cave. I looked llko oomothing that had bocn pulled out of a Turkish bath and whllo I wns madly mopping my fov-orcd fov-orcd brow, Doc calmly dlscoutEod as follows: "Look ovor yonder nt thot canyon wall. Did you over havo a falror prospect to gazo xupon7 Tho trail T Why that's n dbggono good trail built by th0 forestry servlco and it does ouch fat wallopers as you good to climb It." That was all tho satisfaction satisfac-tion I got nnd tho next day I could hardly lift my bones out of bed, but I folt bettor some way. I folt as though I had boon In communion with something great and glorious and part of tho dross of my bolng was sloughed off. I volunteered to holp Doc talro pictures pic-tures and I'm glad I did becauso I got some Inside Infprmatlon on tho cave that I never would havo gotten had I hurrlod through like most sightseers do. I learned, fbr Instance, that there aro beautiful crystal flowers growing In that cave that havo all tho contury plants In tho world beaten to a Scandinavian Scan-dinavian pulp becauso thoy havo boon growing for a million years and aro getting mora beautiful oil tho tlmo. Doo mado mo sit on a cold, wot stono for ton minutes at a stretch stret-ch playing tho light on tho formation and I had tlmo to look about me. Did you ovor boo a photograph of a snow-riako snow-riako with all Its dollcato tracory? Woll, thoro aro 840,000 snowflakcs In that cavo unloss I miscounted, and tho stolagmltos and stalactites stick up and down until It looks llko a fairy forest. Englncor Torgeson, who drove us up thoro, allowed as how somo of thoso talagmlteB might bo old enouglit to vot0 It It ovor bocamo a deadlock botwocn Democrats, no-publicans no-publicans and Bolshovlkl. Ab I sat thoro holding tho light I took a slant at tho thing as a wholo and by somo strango stroak of Imagination Imagi-nation was wattod baok Into the Unltod States district court where wo onco trlod n big mining case. Two big companlos woro fighting for a mlno and thoy brought In elaborato models showing volns, flssuros, faults, stopos and tunnels. Thoy used to Interest mo mightily becauso I havo llnd many a day droam about tho tlmo whon hot wators carrying metals met-als In solution camo up through tho oracks of tho earth under prossuro Irnd dcposltod their precious burden. "Chamber of Juno HrJdos" I I took anothor squint at tho walls iof Timpnnogos cavo and I soz to my-ttolf, my-ttolf, "This Ismclthor a worked out aiiagBwMwiyww'wff" mlno or a cavern that tho waters havo oaten out. It Is simply a groat crack and has bcon rosorved by N'aturo to show what alio can do with 1 1 mo oolu-tlons. oolu-tlons. It looks llko u model of a mlno," I soz, "and thoro are a lot of young mining engineers I know ,who ought to have a 'look at It, Kvldcntly Qod mado this place as a sort of exhibit ex-hibit of what Ho can do In tho way of breaking up tho earth's crust." Doc took his first plcturo In the Chombor of Juno Brides. That isn't tho namo ot it but I call It that bo-causo bo-causo I couldn't think of anything but Juno brides with lacey filaments falling from their heads and shoulders. shoul-ders. It was all laco work dono In hard crystal and tho flngors of Na-turo Na-turo had hovorod ovor tho loom for eons. Work Helng Denpollecl. Illght hero is a thot that I must put down lost wo forgot. Whll0 I sat thoro In those caverns holding tho light, Bcoros of parties of hight-scors hight-scors stopped and mado Inane ro-rcmarka ro-rcmarka and passed on their way. Wpmon nnd boys nnd oven full-grown mon childishly Inquired !f they might break off this or that particular pleco of glistening crystal that struck their funcy. Tho guldo emphatically told them that thoy could not, but when his back was trurned thoy would go ahoad and broak it anyway, I sat thero In sorrowful contemplation, saying that If I wrlto a story bout (thls place It will only bring moro of tho breed of cattl to dostory with ono blow a work that has taken thousands of years to accomplish. Unless something some-thing Is dono and dono drastically at onco, TImpanogos cavo will bo a do-ipolled do-ipolled troasuro house wjlthln tho year. Oawky kids, thoughtless women, wo-men, hard-boiled mon go In that cavo and try to carry away as many of Jiobo crystals an thoy can stuff In tholr pockots. I saw boys actually kicking olf pieces ot thai wonderful formation Just to hear It clink. Although Al-though tho towns bolow Amorlcan Fork ennyon havo put up monoy to light tho ctvo tholr chief duty Is to devLso somo mothod of punishment for vandals. Pretty soon they wont havo any cavo worthy of lighting. Wo destroy tho things wo love. Tho more beautiful a thing ls,tho more Intonso seems to bo our desire to roach forth clutching fingers and drag It down: Why that spirit of vandal-Ism vandal-Ism abldos In every human breast is too deep for mo, but It Is thoro and If wo aro to save anything from depredation de-predation wo must protect It, Last Sunday several hundred por-sons por-sons went through tho cavo nnd evory ono of them trlod to carry away something for a souvenir. Many ot thorn succeeded and nt tho present rato thoy will despoil tho cavo so quickly that It will mako tho heads ot thoso old mountain gods swim In bowlldormont. Doc took a number of pictures and after wo moved tho Junk down tho trail wo drovo up tho canyon. Doo cooked somo bacon and eggs ovor tho camp flro and mado tho coffco and the stream rushed by with an oxult-nnt oxult-nnt Bhout and tho sunlight filtered through tho leaves. I vas tired end sore In every Joint but was ablo to sit up- and tako notlco when thoy hollered hol-lered "Grub pllo." I dont think I over tasted anything so good In my llfo. Wo finally reachod Mutual Doll on tlie south fork which Is nothing but a natural mountain meadow and so wondortully Inviting that It makes you catch your breath. Doo took somo moro pictures while I lolled In tho moadowi grasses and lar.lly followed tho flight of u big bumblo boo plundering plund-ering mountain flowers. I watched that bandit stoallnc honoy but I know ho was carrying pollen from flower to flower and was following out his prescribed rolo In tho schomo of things. I also watched human bandits pulling up wild flowers flow-ers by tho armful, and throwing them awny. Doo says that If thoy keep It up thoro won't bo any wilt flowors In tho canyon In a fow years, |
