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Show FUNERAL- Panguitch Impressive Funeral services were held in the south ward chapel Monday afternoon at 3 O'clock for Mrs. Stella Josephine Lister Rog-erson, Rog-erson, who died Saturday .August 11, in the Holly Cross Hospital in Salt Lake City of kidney trouble. News The first impression of many people as they walk onto the rim of Bryce Canyon is that erosion of the cayon is very rapid. Before much of an examination of the cayon was made one very enthusiastic tourist made the remark," Why didn't the Union Pacific build tiieir lodge bock farther? farth-er? It will only take a few years until they will have to move the building, I because of the receiving cayon wall." After walking along the rim for a short distance the individual's attention atten-tion was called to a larae Roci.y Mountain Yellow Pine, Pinus Ponder-ossa Ponder-ossa brachyptera, that was growing on the edge of the rim. This tree was struggling to maintain its balance. bal-ance. Many of the roots on the canyon can-yon side were exposed and dead. How long they had been exposed was a real problem. Comparison of this tree with a stump near by of about the same diameter showed it to be about ninety years old. For exact age a boring should have been made. This age determination was made by counting the annual rings on the large end of the tree that had been cut previously. It is the natural thing for plants to send their roots downward and outward out-ward in the soil upon germination and growth of the seeding. The large pine tree on th rim with the now exposed roots certainly, in its earlier life, was' so situated that its roots were in the ground. It sent its roots .downward and outward in order to support and anchor the rapidly growing stem and branches. Allowing twenty or thirty years for the side roots to have made their outward out-ward growth in the soil to the point where they now stand exposed, tit leaves some sixty years for the bank to weather and erode up to the present pres-ent state. A measurement of the exposed ex-posed portion of several roots showed most of them to be six or seven feet long. The assumption is that it has taken sixty or seventy years to wear away the bank under the tree a distance dis-tance of sixty feet. If this be true, the rate of recession of the rim is about one inch a year. Other trees on the rim were observed in the same way with similar conclusions. Trees on the side rim of the cfiyon no doubt are in safer location, because the bank does not wear away as fast on the sides as it does at the head. If the conclusion drawn are anything any-thing near true, then we can assure our good friend of the road that the De Luxe cabin of the Bryce Cayon Lodge nearest the rim need not be distrubed for at least 37,669 years in the future. Garfield Co. News |