Show EDITOR GOES ON TRIP TO GATHER FOSSILS last saturday frank beckwith sr accompanied J J watson to his ranch at ibex about 91 miles yet of delta to gather fossils in that area this la is in the ordovician field and yields types ot of fossils of 0 that per tor for ingance we got AT IBEX brachiopods being a shell fish somewhat like a clam but small a hinge on the shells and the creature within with long branch ing arms arm s folded inside the shell as that fact gives it its name which means arm footed tooted it is like a mollusk the shells are sym symmetric symme metri trl cal several sizes and several kinds were folind the palomera omera troll bite which looks all the world like a spider burled buried in the mud all hid but its tall portion the omera breaks in two so easily at the juncture of tall to the body that this rear part la is all that Is usually found it al ways has five pairs of 0 f segments at cached so that it cant can t be mistaken mist iken when once seen we found a tew few imperfect A fragmentary piece ot of a ot of a cephalopod ceph alpod which Is called locally a petrified eel the area irea at ibex has by now from many visits been pretty well depleted I 1 did not find one single sometimes called sun flower coral and by others a sea urchin this I 1 particularly wanted to find then the next day mr watson kindly took me over to crystal peak sometimes called the white cone which stands out like a sore thumb tied up in a white rag in its sur roun soundings dings I 1 never tire of seeing crystal reals peak which is a natural phe of rare interest A push of volcanic mud white not too hard and yet not soft carrying tiny specks of other material was squeezed up between two mountains like tilling filling an alamo grease thingamabob until the grease squirts out at the edges hat a lust just how thia this white mud and cemented ash was forced up between the adjacent hills and there tt it pro brudes a brilliant white cone be tween e 0 cedar ridge on one side and a large combination quartzite hill capped with dark lime on it I 1 had been twice before to the NE corner and followed down the rough pass to the north and NW but this time we went to the SE corner we have yet to go to the SW corner go that once more I 1 may possibly go out there at crystal peak we got slabs of sine with several kinds of fossil life forms on them combinations of brachiopods omera trilobites and sometimes some branching bry on the same stone cross sec see tlona of 0 trilobites tiny little belee some Le perdita and a few good fragments of cephalopods mr watson let me say jack that a fi whole lot easier jack found and gave me one excellent or sunflower coral nicely marked worth the whole trip I 1 did not find a one jack was more fortunace fortu nae by that time we had about seventy y I 1 pounds or more of fossils so that al tho we felt we should go to the BE SE corner who wants to lug 70 ibs lbs of rocks on his back up a bill hill down again and then back when already tired hungry and about willing to r say lots let s not T 9 so we came home over the dog gundert road that ever went by that name washed out rocky we had to climb over brush detour find a crossing crossl ng here another there shovel down a bank yank stones out of the way and worry and fret and fume and cuss that night tt it rained and about I 1 10 0 a m it began to thunder and I 1 got to thinking I 1 d better beat the storm to it on the hard pan it rained somewhat hard before I 1 got there tho it was gently drizzling then and I 1 splashed thru an inch to an inch and a halt of water over the slickest stuff you ever saw doing movie stunts with the car waltzing balanc ing all and cavorting anywhere ex capt in the right direction then out of the rain but an awful road at the head of manjura mar jura pass this way mud in the road dry down further but lota lots of mud near hinckley and after I 1 got in a downpour in del ta and I 1 was glad I 1 was back and rain that night so it was a good de termination that I 1 got out of the hills when I 1 did I 1 was quite interested in some specimens ot of apus Glac lalis in the ponds near jack jacks 8 and watched them swim sometimes on their backs sometimes on their bellies as whim dictated and when feeding shooting out streams ot of mud behind they are near living relatives to the extinct and by some are dubbed living trilobites walcott writes of them and tells of their similarity to the ancient bites the fossils of which are found within two miles sheep range excellent feed tine fine I 1 may go once more and will then be b content frank beckwith Butk with S st |