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Show A TRIP THROUGH THE CLEAR CREEK CANYON The editor of the The Chronicle wishes to say that for a short jaunt easily made from Delta, the scenery in Clear Creek canyon is well worth the slight effort to see it. ! Firm one comes to Cove Fort, which vw have grown careless in '.hir.kicg it nothing, until we ea it featured in the Union Pacific Magazine, Maga-zine, with photos and write up, and then we come to have more respect for this old landmark. When the pony expre.sg riders traversed from Fillmore to Braver, many is the r.mdfatfn r in this region and arouun Fillmore who can entertain you for an evening with the interesting inter-esting tales of those day3, and Indians In-dians of days when the old fort wa a n-cefisity. Certainly one would like a photo of that old landmark, more specially so if aue has heard of the by-gone days and its stirring events. The road up over the hill into Clear Creek is a Government road, well surfaced, and fine. Then the drop over the top takes one into Clear Creek canyon, only seventy-five seventy-five to eighty miles from Delta. First one sees the honeycomb rocks, cut by wind and water, gases and stream into large and small swallow nests, like the mud swallaw daubs on the cable. These are in every conceivable conceiva-ble form and shape. Here also is to be seen where Nature'8 face i pockmarked, pock-marked, still wearing the piti left from a siege on a huge scale, done eons ago. Down further one comes to the cliffs. Don't overlook the fact that good hieroglyphics exist in Clear Creel canyon, easily seen from the road and so accessible that without effort one may approach within fifteen fee The place is right across the road from the farm where the sign says "Belknap. '1 These hieroglyphics show a form of double whorl, in a quite regular geometric pattern with a well drawn dog' below, and a device which I can't make out what' it represents; and one drawing might resemble a rayed sun, or even the scared scarabeUB if one wished to mix nationalities in a wild orgy of imagining. The geometric thing looks like the patterns seen on the edges of earthenware, or Navajo blankets, as decorations. Off to the right, and seemingly a first effort, not drawn on the same scale as the others, is a large picture of what looks very like a sage chicken, about five feet high. Surmounting all the better work is a series of deep dots, like stars in the firmament. These heiroglyphics are well worth stopping stop-ping for. The w.riter was told by a resident there that there is a cave back in the canyons with painted work on the walls, and every evidence of having hav-ing been used by the Indians in the past, large enough so that everal families could be accommodated at once. The writer is going to arrange to take a couple of days off and look that place up. Then further down the canyon the chasm walls narrow down so that rock and water meet with the road almost shoved off, so little room is there to spare. A beautiful view. And takes a striking photo. This part is a typical "narrows" of a sheer cliff about three hundred feet high, dark red, stratified rock, with strata standing on end. Then nearly to the bottom the north walls again approach the creek and this also makes a striking pho- to, a copy of which may be seel: in the Tribune Road book. A forenoon sun is better for the" latter picture, and a mid-af ternocn sun for the former for-mer one. And the fishing good. Cars from Richfield and other towns are met at frequent intervals. As the road is a link of the Pike's Peak and Ocean to Ocean Highway, it i well travelel and kept up nicely Delta Chronicle |