Show party will search for historic mark sometime the lat last of this month a searching party dreaded by herbert B E bolton chairman of the department wf ot ihl dit story of the university of california will follow the trail ot of fattier father silvestre Sll vestre velez de 11 escalante through the southern and eastern part of utah and northern arizona kr izona in of an inscription found on oil a rock ta la 1884 by 11 L baldwin of salt lake city 70 year old veteran of the united states geological asur survey the inscription was found by mr baldwin lie was mapping ping the echo cliffs quadrangle for the survey over fifty years ago lie ile says saya that lie made a note of it in its ills report at the time and that after a careful car edul study of the diary of tile the famous Franci explorer and maps of the route that pat he was convinced that he be ha biad made an all I 1 important in 1 0 r t a n t discovery Ilo however wever lie lid did not disclose the fact until early this year if the inscription can be relocated and proven aut hente it will be valuable as it will be the birst in sc ripton found along the route traveled by father escalante and his party who in 1770 in an endeavor to to find a northern route to monterey california traveled north through utah as far as provo after a short stop with the indians there they turned south again traversing a route through southwestern utah to a point in I 1 arizona south of st george here due to scarcity sea id ty of provisions the they y abandoned the journey to california and turned taking a northeastern eastern i direction it la Is thought that the party came came back ciack into utah in 14 kane county east of ka nab passed over the north end of ad JJ nally 01 altex artex voine wandering in an effort to cross the abe colorado P they were directed by indian guides to a crossing in glen canyon on the borderline of kane county and arizona abich from that time on has been known as the crossing creasing of the fathers mr baldwin says gays he discovered the inscription as he was guiding his pack train to a water hole ile he recalls finding the water hole dry and while looking around found a rock ledge on which the name was inscribed he says that it was so located that sand may have drifted over IV it but was later uncovered again and that it was on a plateau 30 to 40 miles of the crossing of the fathers the search Is being promoted by the national ional forest service prom from reports horses will be used in crossing the desert area as the route does not follow a traveled highway |