Show COMPLETES TRIP TO OATH GATH En EIt FOSSILS IN Somo Rare Specimens Found and anden en Re Regions lons Visited Smithsonian Sent Seine or of the thc Finds Frank Beckw i Senior and Mr Charles Kell Kelly or of Salt Lake City several days clays or of last week inthe In Inthe the west hills on a fossil gatherIng quest The the Up tip end ot of the Confusion COon Con fusion Range tn in the north end or of IVah Wah Wah Valley at J. J J. J Watsons Watson's Ranch at Ibex Rain conditions had been very trying there as for Cor twenty one days not a drop had fallen and andall i all reservoirs water holes and pock ets were dry oh dr nearly dry and cattle cat cat- tle had drifted away In search ot of water WIld horses In that region era alre a pest and deplete the tho farmers farmers' range feed and use lse up the tho stored water water wa- wa ter they should bo be systematically killed off Also the Ithe number or of sheep allowed in that region should be fixed fix fix- ed with relation to the amount ot of feed because as It is now run there Is a hurried rush In to beat the other Cell fellow ow gut it get out quIck and It if the range has been hurt that's pos Uncle Samuel must sometime guard us from tho predatory preda preda- tory grab it ft fellow whose greed hurts the natural resources or of the range A longer and more pronounced ced has not net there for many years And these men on the trip ho gath gather would have BUt suf- ered acutely had the same relative condItions prevailed and It been In August instead d or of In May They 1 found that water was wholly absent In the tho stone trough n Pass t and several tried to get water there 3 t both for themselves and car but gave It up De indiscriminate indis- indis criminate ate traffic halt half provIded with t water and outfitted will result t x In a or two It if all water holes and springs are not net kept open and f the r presence resende or of water marked that the weary traveller may get It i x Mr Beckwith and Mr Kelly found founds s i many fossIls ot of the OrdovIcian per per- t Sod Jod notably or of the Cephalopods a shell IShell halt ush whose closest now are squids cuttle fish ish and andt t sponges of t f ela and anI ot of the x this latter lattea exactly like a j t fled mushroom The top ot of it Is f marked lIke the seed pod 4 t oOt of a sunflower and hence In many manyX X of ot the text bookS Lt it Is called is-called d The Th t Sunflower Coral f They found a rare mare species Of tri tri- lobate different from anything ns as yet yet discovered In the region In that lit fit had a Ill much J h wider series of seg i to its tall tail sIze to that member and shape shapo uncommon 4 t They found fragments of coral which animals build up a reef of Hm as they live These were 3 i bored with Un tiny holes In which the i c polyps lived and under i tine microscope the pattern Is Inter inter- t esting They found what they think 4 were bodies and worm oe 4 I They found mud burrowing trilobites j bites bUes of which all tho an animal mal buthe but bu the hinder parts are gone just the I tail only being preserved aU all th rest or of the thO animal suffering destruction It If the tho animals lay with theIr tans tails burned In the tho mud watching for tor pney then when death came scavengers scavengers gers nr w wave ave action would detroy all parts or of Ithe animal not protected protected- hence they find now roily only the tail was W thus Some of or the mud burrowing animals ani- ani main mals were vare blind because not using the tho e eyes eIS the th organ ant and was later taken away oom am them It can cannat cannot not nat bo be noted whether these wore of too that were wro-e blind because the portions or of the tho animal mere not round found They visited the Crystal Peak which on the U. 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S Geological I map Is named as The White Cone This Is a grow white mass of white sandstone cemented with silica mida mJ- mJ da and In hiss fragments trag frag- ments or of white quartzite A few bits ot of dark are arc embedded In St it An analysis Is befog made to rind find out the composition and conjecturally horw it came to ta be placed there thero for tor it a a Cheep sided abrupt cone cona nearly as high as The Tho Sugar Loaf Butte jammed In among a bunch of bIg lima mountains So prominent Is It that on clear clem days It Is frequently frequent frequent- ly visible from the dUg dugway or of Cove Fort standing out like a sore thumb wrapped In a white mg And that distance In good only In which It may be seen is over one hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles milers so it to must be big From it Mt Belnap may be seen nearly miles away to the south southeast southeast east by east Mt WheeLer due tRiest and should one climb to the top or of the hIghest mou mountains ns thereabouts the View would be magnificent with Wr n Head visible farther south the highest point Ln in Southern Utah and Nebo up north A few rew rare fossils were found to Crystal tho not many There Is tely no scenery to catch the eye In il admiration noth ing but immense brooding over ov- ov er vastness incomprehensible Nor B nor listening lear ear an object finds t is as though the general pulse of life Ure stood still and nature made a paJu e en n an awful pause prophetic of at i hen end It gives a feller he aint uster They on a road which led but a short distance away to where a Mr Paul mat Ms luL death on that desert a number of years ago when his horsE got gOot away from him Paul was on a visit f om Kanosh to Garrison and died of t almost In sight from the spot on which the trio Beckwith Beckwith Beck Beck- with Kelly and Wat Watson on sat satto to mor- mor aliha on and drink in the extent extent ex- ex tent of creation They visited the Holes a small water pocket then their nearly dry In the excessive The of u the desert that speaks the loudest just before dawn when aU all is hush and Is the voice ot of fth the silence just proceeding sun up but the tho pitiless burning wrath of ar gods unappeased at who noon can the desert when Its spell vanishes u as soon as remarked on- on whose wb e qualities can only settle upon one in utter solitude As a sample lOt of the toll the desert takes Captain John W. W Gunnison and comrades seven were WEme food fo for coyotes coyote the morn a tragic surprIse Penney lost his life lite not far from Watsons Watson's Wat- Wat sons son's place many years yea ago Doom Canyon is 19 heavIly freighted with the legend gend at tour four men who lost their Jives hives In winter caught In a blindIng blinding blind blind- Ing snow storm scattered theIr horses and tin do their extremity they even even e- e ven burn bur sd d their wagon for fuel tuel to keep the last k ot of Ute life feebly war warmed ay they slowly died of star star- and only two yeaTS ago the younger ot of two m man Jl l loft his life alA al- anost in plain sight of thus Delta does th the d depart ert take exacting toll from m those who cross it Th The late George Bishop lay Insensible over over- overcome come oom wIth heat do n the bottom of his wagon and the th-e horses left to themselves them them- selves made for Jacks Jack's P per d when en near and Watson Watson Wat- Wat son went to the rescue G of the aged man ed him forced water onto the parched worked the glaze out o at the thle craz crazed l eyes and was dumbfounded to hear the ejaculation tIon brought out by his labors on the lost loot mop Where be I d the team not apt its own way tto Lo Jacks Jack's P prate Bishop hOP would have lost his life as toll toU to the tho inexorable desert desert-a mind you he h had travelled that dl di ert for tor forty years years- e rs- rs The party saw the justly noted l t trow row Head oOn on the San Francisco A 1 Anear near the town or of Newhouse thIs y vF perfect is so large es as mated at nearly ft high high that tIDIlY be readily seen for th thary y fi miles It Is a natural al ot of note At l Pass they round found a r. r fossil in Ithe thin shale some tug Fins White i the matrix shale and one Bred ered right on the dump the paint mine In Rainbow The men deport a a. trip full tun of hI hh work much climbing a great deal lugging gunny bags bang f flor of lor rocks big and the territory had been worked cons ably before ch succeeding trip aU all the harder to get anythIng At Pass some very f fi specimens ot of rock velvet giten gl gi ten also some made dripping water the whiter W ler rich in lit which blutt up as the water drops locally these ese are call petrified turtles though they a merely slot the build up ot of wit dropping drop by drop and the III hr hrit It making a circular mour moUI They visited The Craters wE w of Fi and got no a number photos at the Ice Cave Mr Beckwi got Ice the tho first tIme in five yea ym ho has always gotten goLlen in t. t Just after rise else had suite ed the but icicle this time he w the lucky Q Owing to the many photos take a quite complete record or of the tr trW W was taken and many notes nodes made I interesting Further study w be given to the specimens they tOt tai SoO so that in time the findings will l known Butt for lor Sugar Loaf Was studied and t sea cliff cutt and its ts peculiar and very I foam or erosion with sat lt stain was noted and pid uTes take Mr Beckwith hopes ho es in time to ha haa a complete survey ot of the things or of g interest In Millard l County |