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Show Gem and Mineral Show Hosted by Cedar City Club The second annual Gem and Mineral Shovv of the Utah Feder-ated Feder-ated Gem and Mineral Society, will be held In Cedar City Friday, Fri-day, Saturday and Sunday with the Cedar City Rock Glub as hosts. The exhibits will be located locat-ed at the archeological museum of the College of Southern Utah and will be open to the public free of charge. The Cedar City Club annually sponsors the gem and mineral show, but this is the first time that the state organization has selected Cedar City as the site for its annual exhibit. Presl-det Presl-det of the UFGMS is Parley Dal-ley Dal-ley of Cedar City, professor emer-1 itus at College of Southern Utah. A number of special exhibits,' including the display now being shown at the CSU Science building, build-ing, will be featured In this second sec-ond annual show. Among the mineral and fossils will be a or! lection donated to CSU by Dr. C L. Ingleby, which was presented i by Mr. ar.d Mrs. W. H. Waldo of Salt Lake City. I Local displays will emphasize the rocks and minerals from the southwestern Utah area, especially espec-ially from the iron mines located west of Cedar City. Host members will display lapidary lap-idary work, articles and artifacts from both far and near. Another special feature will be a wide variety of thumb nail specimens and micromounts, and Prof. Dal-ley Dal-ley will display a cabinet of interesting in-teresting Indian artifacts, a collection col-lection of sea shells and ancient fossils. A display will be entered in ' the show of replicas of famous diamonds entered by the Christiansen Chris-tiansen Diamond Co.; Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Stout of Provo will display their beautiful jewel tables which features polished rocks set in plastics. An exceptional excep-tional quality of pertrified woods will be exhibited by Clark Shrum of Kanab of both raw and finished finish-ed materials and from Duck-water, Duck-water, Nev., Mrs. Joe Roberts will bring her famous pictures of rocks. Other displays will be entered by O. II. Moore of Salem, Utah, discover of Utah Wonder Stone in Salina Canyon, which will include in-clude this unusual stone set in p'astics on table tops and other artifacts; Mr. and Mrs. CTaude Milne of St. George w-ill display spr-clrTiriia oi Aiuriie Iwaiacnite from the Apex Mines, and Ken Tanner of Salt Lake City will display pheres, petrified woods, (Continued on Pag Eight) Gem-Mineral Show (Continued from Front Page) onyx, obsidlon and other semiprecious semi-precious materials. In addition to the display there will also be a series of lectures lec-tures throughout the three-day show and field trips as well. Lectures will include Jim Bean, Salt Lake City, member of the Wasatch Gem and Mineral Club, who will talk on Spereology; Mrs. Maurice Crichton of Cedar City, who has won national honors hon-ors for her micro-mounts, will discuss preparation of micro-mounts. A guided tour to Kane County to deposits of Seppario, often used in making book ends, will be conducted as well as a trip to an unusual deposit of petrified wood. The iron mines in Iron County will also be available for rock hounds during the show and trips to other areas will be out-lined out-lined to be toured either Individually Indiv-idually or collectively for visitors. visit-ors. the host club In Cedar City has Indicated that in preparation for an .influx of "rock hounds" into the area to attend the show, provisions have been made for parking space for campers and trailers. |
