Show FOSSIL GATHERING find of monster bite which it U restored might blight be a yard liongs largest in area will be passed to expert for study antelope north spring running I 1 had the pleasure of the hills fri frt day saturday and sunday out by antelope springs gathering fossils the search was after forms of ag costus but in that I 1 was very anfor dunate not getting but a 4 very mea ger and those mostly broken at the inter so that halves were found and a very few whole ones A field that prof R A morris and I 1 went to in april 1927 then so prolific 22 to yield me a tire five pound lard pail pall chock full ol 01 trilobites in than tour four hours and he h ft hat chohli full and to pocket handkerchiefs besides was now so depleted that by diligent hunting I 1 got scarcely a hundred evidently we cleaned cm em up when we first visited the spot in june I 1 went back to nearly the same spot with dr fred J pack and professor mathews and dr pack got a full quart now they are getting scarcer out of that area I 1 sent the sm smithsonian Smiths I 1 onlan S 3 specimens and exchanged with other collectors all over the country some clear back bick in massachusetts then this summer I 1 went in again with dr george 11 hansen professors tanner and cot tarn tam and again we got a sufficient quantity for their needs this time I 1 eatherd about a hun dred pounds of dirt bilich will be washed and greened and then out on white paper and searched sear cred tor for minute forms sometimes this yields choice specimens sometimes dismal failure questionable casts of in the fervor of imagination one Is apt to be carried oft off ones one s feet and see things that aren t there for five years at intervals I 1 have found casts in shape like a poached egg straight up the convex por tion higher than the rim which rim or rather margin Is most often bro ken off but plainly hinted at in the fragments and irregularities of the edges I 1 have thought these to be casts of a soft form of life some thing like a medusa or jelly fish that Is when the soft creature died the form it once occupied Is replaced by calcareous matter and in tact fact such forms are pictured in cham chain and salisbury and in and a monograph of others written by walcott but enthusiasm Is a mighty unsatisfactory collaborator in science needs the damper on too often so tar far the experts I 1 have shown the specimens to think them mere more concretions and wont take them seriously I 1 will die hard tho and wont give up the cherished hope until the hull is riddled metaphors are things aren t they in stead of helping a teller hurdle a thought over gracefully on the gal lop he too often stubs a toe and sprawls in error these forms are not found where drip would cause them but are il ways associated with cambrian life in 14 shale and the thought is very al luring if there is nothing to them well it will be disappointing that s all barclay and emory john told me that I 1 holud find material southeast of Antel poe on the knolls but to he the best efforts in hunting nothing came to hand worth while A monster in size then turning back to an abrupt corner of the mountain with a sharp ly rising limestone butte I 1 found fragments of the largest trilobite I 1 have ever seen markings of a on one rock from the center of the alabel la to the outward tip of the fixed I 1 cheek measured 4 inches on the scale of proportion of other sped mena mons this would give a creature ap proximately SEVENTEEN INCHES long A thoracic oracle th segment of adoth er specimen measures eleven inches long itself that in the scale of pro portion might possibly give this mon ster a size of over FORTY INCHES if that can be the case and I 1 will have the f finds submitted to an ex pert it Is certaine cert alny tainy a monster one of the evry largest and a f find ind worth the disappointment of the two pro pre beeding days of toll toil without rendit associated with the monster frag ments were a number of thin slabs packed close with hundreds upon hundreds of small crad cra didia idla or bly the full of a species I 1 did not recognize the preservation is poor and many lines lost it will require work to clean them up tit fit tor for study above the lime Is massive in lay ers which weather out to about two inches thick or less a few slightly thicker A few imprints of a ques tio tlona ble nature this area is not over feet wide by about 80 feet up the hill a very narrow patch indeed the sheep are all out of the area now I 1 noticed that the upper I 1 spring of antelope springs was run nine ning and down past the low er spring which Is seldom the case that mey not last long into the sum mer however it HUB mas cold up in the mountains and I 1 had to sleep with a sweater on and a coat over that an eskimo rolling into hia his iglo the first night out the wind blew from the top of swazey peak right smack down the back of my neck neek making the dry wisps on my bald spot scamper from the gale so the next night I 1 put the bed the other side of the car and blessed if it the wind dida t shift and blow from that direction while I 1 was sitting on the bare ground before the tire cooking la in a tomato can talk and grid toasting touting my bacot strip on a lon ions stick no trying frying pan up rode king george V of all england with his retinue and said to me my good man bally well will I 1 trade lots you S my crown and all its worry tor for your simple content are you on tor for a trade even up bookee here george bothin do in I 1 you can t pawn off that chunk 0 tin toll foil and a gob of worry onto this chicken its it a no go the king turned to the exchequer of the treasury and said settle a thousand pounds on the man no your majesty lie ile d have to go to the haunts of man to cash the dank bank of fingland Hin hingl gland ind note and that would give a bill collector a chance to pounce on him out here he and his tomato can are care tree free but I 1 d gladly trade said george and as I 1 gulped down a swig of cot tee fee he and his retinue rode tt wf and I 1 saw him scratch an idea out of his beard every rod or so till they were out of sight when creditors get to pressing there theres s always the hills right close area are fields 47 species of trilobites walcott worked this area three times it yielded to him forty seven different species of trilobites ed by him in various publications of the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution the shale is a little coarse grained and this roughness tends to lose minute detail so that in the area no appen dages no eye facets no limbs have been found preserved some of the best detail Is from imprints seen from the dorsal side some ca are excellently preserved it if all the conditions of weathering have been advantageous last week much of the area I 1 was in was not of good preserving quality and a number if specimens I 1 tossed back ion on the hill side as not worth carding home in the wheeler close to the convenient camp of antelope spring the best mens are being fast de plated and taken by collectors on ly seconds and smaller ones are ae left it which means to find the small ones much close application to the work at hand is somewhat rare Elrath Ei rathia fa rather abundant and it if more or less imperfect specimens are not objected to there still remains a fair quantity but the choice the nicest quality is fast going the newly worked road from west of hinckley to marcum pass Is very soft yet getting exceedingly dusty and unless rains come will begin to cut in that stretch about opposite the marshall project it if the work on it does not progress to surfacing it with gravel it will be somewhat bad by mid summer the road taking to antelope was good I 1 have not gone to swazey spring yet and wis tempted to this trip but the road didn dian t look exactly inviting and 1 I put it oft off in the wheeler Ampi theatre area I 1 t think that I 1 gathered about 9 specimens ts in all many of these were traded much given away and as stated before about 3 sped mens sent to the smithsonian Smiths onlan I 1 am now keeping my better spec linens for study well mounted for microscope use on cards which tell what family they belong to where found the formation and the age g geologically II 11 ia Is very inte and when fully learned willbe ot of great value scientifically somi f on this trip I 1 also found some very interesting specimens of a pope tha the indian name tor for an etching which ye we commonly call terns ferns at a later time I 1 will write in these calums what i t pope means and give the wording of indian informant and the effort my mv president wm win R palmer I 1 b etli two indians tu to come all the here from cedar city to find some without avail that day 7 j |