Show I 1 EDITOR GOES ON FOSSIL TRIP 11 itic TO GATHER MATERIAL frank beckwith senior left this week with doctor chas E kesser resser of 0 the united states national muse urn um of the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution of 0 washingto D C to visit the fossil fields in the house hange range and in the F mountains in the house range they will vis it antelope spring and gather mid die dle cambrian cateral in the wheeler amphitheatre explore the ledges on the high area and with the springs as a base of operations search the adjacent country they may go to swazey spring where doctor wal cott call found a number of interesting fossils of many varieties also vis it the shale knolls south of antel ope ape toward marcum pass they will go to the lime point where mr beck beek with found the ver big material and tian tan over that material to the smith conlan tor for determination for as it Is now it i unidentified As planned before starting they expect to go through antelope pass and down where doctor walcott was fortunate enough to find trilobite tracks and trails think of a sig nature of an animal written thirty million years ago written with its feet in sandy mud which turned to stone preserving it that you and I 1 may read it now were holding some bad checks in the office now signatures Jg natures nearly that old then the party expects to a swing south around the tip of the contus ion range where the ordovician ma aerial Is then possibly over to crys tal peak and some work done in the neighborhood of the Milford garri son road up to garrison and baker and then up by cowboy spring work a little there and home if they are alicky they expect to get trilobites brachiopods and as many varieties in the middle cambrian area as they can and then find brachiopods of later era later trilobites crinoids re of pods and other material about 1872 this field was dincov ered names famous in geology left their record by species named I 1 in n hon honor or of those pioneers hite meek wheeler and later walcott the finds were reported on by the early discoverers and then it slept as to the ordovician material now doctor resser wishes to study it ac curatelo cura tely and make notes on the ground so that science may have it adequately treated by an expert cap able of the task doctor resser has been in the area of the grand canyon of at the colora do tor for much of the summer he has the outfit and equipment furnished to members of the U S geological survey auto truck etc etc they will find it mighty dry in this acute drought upon their return sometime lat er we will give our readers a digest of the trip dr R endo of the javanese Jan anese im aerial railway who teaches geology at mukden manchuria accompanied dr resser after this field Is visit isit led ed doctors resser and endo will go to zion national park visit there and then go on an extended tour of lot athe yellowstone national park WA |