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Show Takes Pleasant Outing In Millard Miss Dorothy Skidmore had as weekend guests Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wal-ter Rothaar, residents of Bloom-field, Bloom-field, N. J. ) Saturday evening, the relics, fossils fos-sils and photos on exhibit in the ! Chronicle were shown them, talked about, and views of Millard Coun- j ty shown in lantern slides, and plans for the morrow laid. Sunday morning two cars left Delta, one with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Al-bert Skidmore and family, and the other with Mr. and Mrs. Rothaar, E. D. Harris, Jr., Miss Dorothy Skidmore, Skid-more, and Frank Beckwith Sr. for a one-day tour of our area. On the top of the overpass the various locations lo-cations of objects of interest were located and pointed out, and the car driven to Old Fort Deseret, where the monument was discussed, discuss-ed, its many stone studied, and where sent from recited, the plaque read, and the history given, and then a thorough inspection of the old fort, with its history for the benefit of the eastern visitors. Then on to the Great Stone Face (Guardian of Deseret), where Mr. and Mrs. Rothaar were piloted to an outcropping of fossils of the Lake Bonneville period, many of which they gathered. These are fresh water gostropods (one shelled creatures, much like a heavy shelled shell-ed snail). Many millions of them fed in the sheltered nook where found, ate the abundant food then there, and died in vast numbers, giving an outcrop of some feet in thickness. Then to the Great Stone Face, which Ted climbed. Everything was spoken of, with all that can be implied in this re- markable natural phenomenon age, Bonneville water terrace near, ejecta at the time of eruption, and a general summary of all interest from that point of vantage. The petroglyphs on the hillside were visited, and remarks made as to possible age, what some of the designs may have meant, all of which was new to the eastern visitors. vis-itors. From there to Clear Lake, where lunch was had at the spring, and then to a point of vantage south of Pahvant Butte, and it talked about, the time of its eruption, age of its two lava flows, an older outer ring and the more recent island is-land from which built up to 950 feet high, partly' submerged in Lake Bonneville. Then on to the Devil's Kitchen (think of that group visitin with the devil in his kitchen on a Sunday Sun-day what are we comin' to!), and the very plain and beautiful fault close by, when the earth slipped in places sixty feet or so. What an earthquake shock that must have made. Then to the Ice Cave, which very fortunately was under exactly right conditions, for we found huge icicles as long as thirty-six inches, and pictures were taken as we sucked 'em like pop-cycles. Then on to Miter Crater, and next to famed Terrace Crater. Here the party met with a condition which Mr. Beckwith had never encountered en-countered in over thirty years of visitation the conduit down into the earth filled with water to within with-in four feet of the orifice, and a lake 60 by 45 feet in the outer pit of the crater proper. Never before be-fore has he seen water in the bottom bot-tom of the crater pit. That in the conduit was about 30 feet higher than that outside, leading to the supposition that two strata of sub-terannean sub-terannean water were tapped from below, one rising 30 feet higher than the other! Very interesting. Outside, at Flowell, lots of water oozing out on the land; a lake plainly seen between the craters and Meadow; seven shallow lakes in sight from the Great Stone Face, high water in every channel we encountered, en-countered, indicating a high water level in this valley. Is old Lake Bonneville coming back? Then a snack supper in the craters, crat-ers, with weinies toasted over a fire, the lunch safely tucked away inside, and home. A very pleasant day, and profitable. |