Show KON GEOLOGIST VISIT MILL UW IN 1932 fossil collection of baica ind and em cr cra john of cleir clear lake attract in ing merited attention baichi lust in getting I 1 eminent luthor lut hont aa to I 1 libit isit 11 ikeie eie MAY FIND rind HOME IN MUSEUM john Bio theis II ne i ic callec t on in county count constantly laboi in ing to enrich if it TI tle e following letters are self ex placatory plan atory university princeton run ceton new oct 1 1930 department Delart dei artmont ment of geology mr barclay john clear lake millard county utah my dear mr john I 1 thank you tor for the newspaper clial ing containing the article by mr air beckwith which you kindly sent me I 1 have read it with great inter est I 1 chave have just returned from field boni in canada and I 1 look forward to examining the arnosti which mr air beckwith sent to me I 1 am in planning to spend the sum ar mer of 1932 in your part of the country partly so that I 1 can have an opportunity to meet you and to ex amine your collection of fossils very sincerely yours B F howell then barclay writes me from clear lake frank beckwith sr delta utah billy goats received ived your letter spent last week in antelope rain ed most of the time antelope springs alea is the wonderful mid die cambrian section in which the U S expedition surveying west of the meridian in the early started interest in this field which proved so rich in yield that the late charles D walcott for twenty five years the head of the smithsonian institution visited the field two or three times and wrote his findings into the publications pu of that tion he lists about forty six differ ent species many of bf which the john brothers have gotten rb sr barclay continues to say had good luck found where the Marju mia came from waid s museum ot of rochester N M Y burned last week with a loss of over 00 yours barclay ward s museum is an institution which buys a great deal of material re selling reselling it to schools museums and others interested to it barclay has sold in the past some of his mater ial now that it is lost in the flames there mey be an active active market to replace that loss cor other in may see the need of pur chasing here direct as the material is fast being depleted so many are actively engaged in obtaining it the rattler would flop down on the earth with each lunge like a piece of wet hose flung lown flatly at full sprawling length and each repeat of the strike would be just a slower hit tiring and with a cullel thud when SUDDENLY out shot the king snake snakes s head from the reserve loop he kept in readiness tor fot that eventuality eventual ty and grabbed the rattler behind the head when quicker than a flash there was i a wrap ping of coils about the dattler too rapid or the eye to follow and in a vise like grip the rattler was held harmless being unable to strike they fought intertwined tor for sev eral minutes moie lashing about like a man playing with a bull whip but all the time the death grip of the coils of the king snake were nev er loosened and its crunching effect began to tell tor for the rattler became more and more feeble finally when resist acne of the rattler ceased the king snake fin dished its work by a terrible squeeze of its coils and a stretching out of its rival like the stretching of an elastic and all was over the tight fight lasted I 1 thought about twenty minutes the king snake was to too 0 quick tor for the rattler did it eat the rattler I 1 asked no it slowly unwrapped its coils and then quite leisurely glided aw away other people who have seen such a fight say the king snake ate the ratler ratier I 1 don t know what it would have done if it I 1 hadn haan t been so close but I 1 was right by them intently watch ing maybe I 1 was too dolse tor for it to eat the killed rattler I 1 don t know what it would have done it if I 1 had been farther away |