Show LOCATING OR ORA A ARROWHEAD MATERIAL l f. f I went out Sunday with Emory John of Clear Lake to l locate cate some outcroppings of Obsidian which is the black like glass-like stone out of ot which the prehistoric Indian made arrowheads The common black arrow arrow arrow ar ar- ar- ar row tips we see In this region so 80 often often otten of ot- ten are made m of this material We We down about 70 miles mUes south of Delta Just past tho tiro station of Cruz and not quite to Pumice From the hill tops where we were working we could see Pumice and further south the big trees around Walter James' James farm an and Black Rock was tucked ou out of sight from tram us under the rim of the ledge of black rock from which It gets Its name The spring where we lunched they tell me is called Coyote spring The roads continues es over the hill hm and to Antelope Spring We found a great number of obsidIan obsidian obsidian ian pebbles from the size sire of a pea to that of a walnut In one place an ant anthill anthill anthill hill was composed entirely of rich black shiny obsidian and It looked like a bespangled Jewel in a crown so magically did it glisten in the sun Then from the size of walnuts the pebbles ran to that of a small le lemon on and up finally to 10 that of really large potatoes the chunks of stone weighing weighIng weighing weigh weigh- ing as much as over four tour pounds As we stood In that location a big passenger train puffed purred by and then soon Just slightly over ever us hummed an airplane Then I that Father Escalante's trail was right along the creek side we had Just left and that his diary notes that he stopped on the upper one of the two springs near near th of Walter Ja me meA meA meA A rifle would have shot from where we were In the mines if It that word can be used where the Indian got his supply of springs near the Walter James farm obsidian for the malting making of arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrow arrow- heads to the very trail Father Escalante Escalante Escalante Esca- Esca lante trod a hundred and fifty years ago Think toda today a railway train sped by and an airplane hummed aloft Quite a difference The ancient ancient ancient an an- Indian in his teepee crudely gaining a meager sustenance on Beaver Beaver Beaver Bea Bea- ver Creek with primitive agriculture agriculture ture or mayhap at times simply a I I I I i nomad and today milady reclining reclinIng reclining ing in an upholstered Pullman seat lazily complaining this pm pillow ow is you provide a soften one And scudding over the barren topography topography topography to to- a skimming bird above making more mileage in four hours than Escalante could traverse in two weeks From there we went back to the spring and then cut up east along tho old road that goes to the pumice mine In that canyon I found several severI sever sever- al pieces weighing more than four pounds in pure Jet black As we I II walked along I saw saw a whole hill side sido shining In the sun and Emory said Theres your outcrop Go over to it I I 1 i I The whole hill hm top was one solid saUd mass of outflow sheet precisely like Uke an outpouring of hot melted black candy Ing lug l like ke a sheet of glass But all of at that particular hill was of the variety varie varie- varle-I varle ty which has white round spot in it ft I of what Hick tells Davis-tells me is gypson gyp- gyp son sam crystals While prettier to look at it was not used b by the ancient Indian Indian Indian In In- dian because these white spots are softer than the other material and if on an edge would break o out t. t There were tons of It there We did not find yesterday an outcrop outcrop outcrop out out- crop to that but In pure obsidian obsidian obsidian ob ob- without the round spots of crystals mixed in with it it But we did find pebbles chunks and large boulders of it up to four or moro mono pounds in weight each We could have gathered fully as much as several hundred pounds as It was 1 r lugged home homo about pounds of It and sent a sample of ot each kind to Charley Charle Kelly In Salt Lake a fellow fellow fel fel- fellow low Knutt Emory found one or two small chunks of brown obsidian and one fragment in quite a reddish brown Rare But I have seen a few arrowheads arrowheads arrow arrow- heads made of It Hick Davis tells me that there is obsidian near Church Springs north 1 t f Holden and again out by White Mountain by the lava flow flout west oj og Meadow If anyone reading this knows of other sure outcroppings will you please write me briefly |