Show DELTAN DEITAN VISITS LAVA HEDS BEDS CRATER WEST OF FILLMORE by prank frank beckwith continued front from last week we trudged out of the pit of tile the big crater I 1 wore out a perfectly good pair ot of shoes doing so now I 1 know tile the purpose of it all rul ons brother sells star brand shoes and it Is scheme to entice a party into the lava bed and utterly ruin their footwear lie he gets a commission too out of what trade ho he sends to the brother well ill get even ill have mine charged tin the small crater I 1 dont seo see how they can call call so big a crater a small crater it was large enough so BO large in fact that from tile tho pinnacle of the big crater distant several hundred feet tho angle of lit my lens which kibis ls standard found that the little crater was too big to be fully taken within my range area I 1 had to be content to take a part of it only down in the crater pit I 1 was walking along unheeding as blind as a bat not seeing anything when rulon called me to earth with hero here here frank this way youre missing something and there I 1 had walked right past a huge vent or blow nearly circular olgh tto ton feet in diameter leading down into a holo or cave into it we clambered A vivid green moss clung on oil the rocks show ing its wetness and that in a dry lava bed in ili an all arid desert down we went about 24 feet I 1 should say and stood on floor say 10 by 12 in tile the bottom of that floor was a well of water pure clear as crystal arid and rulon said highly impregnated with salt and possibly poisonous kid like ilke with my fifty summers I 1 simply had to have a drink of that stuff right then and there just because ho he sali sal eal I 1 it was poisonous so I 1 shook hands with them all anti and took a good gurgle had to tight fight away from my hand as I 1 lipped dipped it two living bugs of some kind swimming on the surface now dont spoil a good gond story by say ing that those living creatures were brought to that well by birds flying down or wind blowing them in or lodged in a rats fur who watered fd there como right out with a good story and say this proves conclusively that hero here wo we have the open end of a huge sy phoon or underground der ground passage connecting possibly with chalk creek or the com mon man source of tile the artesian ar water supply of the sinks and the latin name of at this bug Is Dumi fino wrig gi gailitis litis with bifurcated tall the are and a perfectly good story sory like that goes right on scientifically eup supported parted by latin names squelching incredulity survey marks in this cave some years ago rulon rulan was prowling around and he ran across a in can with as slip of paper with an address on it and a five cent piece the slip of paper said that tile the writer of it was Pro professor ressor gartner of at the university of at wisconsin taking his summer vacation studying this wonderful field aronna fill more and asked that the tinder finder correspond with him so our young school teacher rulon starley Star loy wrote to the man mail ana fur for three summers they carried on oil a correspondence ita wonderfully interesting to dig up these little incidents and jot them down in ili print the walls of that vont vent blow hole or und end of the subterranean choosing whichever designation tits fits your mind show very plainly that a blast of flames fl ames laden with burning grasses had burst uj up thru that late hole actually melting the rock into tiny or congealed drops just as glass molta into tiny rounds when held in tile the intense heat boat of a blow pipe some terrific heat must have belched out of that hole surely there was a volcano irr eruption scoria cinders and what not had been flung filing by that burst of pent up ill press rue ruo maybe when it had rallied rained out of this holo hole the falling debris had fallen into the flowing lava mass we had seen in ili the other place for bits of f fallen a blell fragments had dropped into tile the but slightly cooling mass and there stuck like peanuts thrown into candy calldy I 1 mentioned this before for the tao simile Is perfect perfo ct in my minds eye I 1 can see just what had occurred dame nature shook the grate of lier her big range on oil which was cooking things bilings lit in her ter kitchen and dumped lit in too much coal it choked tho the tiro fire and gases accumulated all of a sudden WOOF away flow the it lid blown high and smoke cinders alag scoria puffs of steam lot hot water and flames and gases shot up tip the land tor for miles awny away wai showered with the debris then the ribs of her stove sto ve gave way somewhere down below and the lava poured out thru those holes spreading lit in the great lava flow wo we find today all tho the way front from the Pa livant buttel butte sugar loaf to the end of the valley thus saving blowing the whole darned top and this lids off her stove when the fire in the grate went out the holes through which all tilts this flamo and heat anti and molten stuff had been belched remain now either hollow air vents or they connect with subterranean water it is most moat fascinating no sooner had we gotten out than rulon showed me a united states geological survey mark alark ausec sec 17 and the north and south mark and the year 1916 on it not but a short distance by auto away wo we cattle camo to range 6 west see sec 24 see sec 25 another saying township 21 south and range 5 west see sec 19 and see sec 30 delta is just six miles further west and eighteen lles fles norih non ii of that stake don dan holbrook 1 I the misfortune to lose his footing lit going down the slopes of tile tho big crater and the fall badly cut and bruised his face dy by best of good luck lie ho broke no bones in fit his tumble it is a dangerous place and ono one should not go romping down as it if to tea up in town I 1 again saw borgum being out of cane A primitive old fashioned method to bo be sure and yet in another generation those who aro are fortunate to have been engaged in that work aud and who were farsighted enough to have taken some real good sharp record pictures of 0 the process will havo have a treasure tro asuro they will highly ch cherish orish mr air starley boiled four barrels of juice tit in thirteen hours and out of 0 that four barrels lie ho got 41 gallons of sorghum now you soo see a manufactory in fit your door yard and edison works lit in n kitchen corner I 1 talked with john rogers that day mr air rogers was slightly under the weather and only when tile tho conversation ver satto it presented something inar due thing caused him to burst into merriment old indian sam was arrested for or par participating abing in the gunnison Gunn lson massacre lie been eating any too regular so when the old follow was waa given four years yeara lie ho ato ate throe three squire meals a day and enjoyed not hayi having tig a tap of work to do when tile tho turned him loose and sell sent thim him back down here lie ho hunted up ill lila his mormon friends and told it was a fair and square pro mise they agreed to take caro care of tile me tor for four yours years anti and I 1 want you to see that they do it and then I 1 learned tho distinction between tho the bad Merl cals and wo we good cormons mormons Mor mons rulon says a clintin of ills his was up tip around thoele tooele when tho the world war broks broka out the indians refused tho the draft tho the citizenry thought to impel them tile tho indians took to arms tho the white mob had it in six soldiers lit in uniform possibly nincompoops just away from ni mamas anias apron strings and not capable of hitting a flock of barns sitting but as soon been as the indians saw tho the dreaded power of your undo samuel symbolized lit in those uniforms they gave in and bloodshed was averted I 1 have a photo taken several years aap of tile tho language characters engraved in ii the keystone of the old holbrook barn at Fil fillmore linore lu lit the language which some of tho the more zealous Mur wished to adopt matter in thu the same characters there are those who have printed rulon t told I 1 me of tho the hunting episode lanio roy dame had with a mountain I 1 lion juit but as this Is getting to tile the limit set that story will have to wait and with it an all indian legend which rulon promises to put on oil paper for me if he ha will to do so I 1 will present it to tho the readers of the progress 1 I wish to thank tho editor tor for the space and the readers for their kind attention through the series wo have a wonderfully interesting county would wo we but make an effort to uncover its appeal for the material needs only to bo be sorted and jotted down sometimes it almost writes itself frank beckwith ex editor editors note being still a lit alo tl uncertain we questioned mr beckwith Heck with aru aro you positive there were no kitchen editors or ex editors lit in tile the devils davils oh suro sure afi t wy I 1 listened lit in on a conversation and there any of etheln there well then what was tile tho extra heat boat for that day casting up ill a gob of for doleans Dol tans already behind on oil orders all irvell Iv vell go 90 UP ehna |