Show 1 OUR UTAH MILLAR BITES BEGIN 11 11 IRD COUNT 1 A thice D ty tup amora the rocks to I 1 ind ancient I 1 eti 91 plis GOT AT BLACK ROCK roch get held U up by bind mud life of in aitor filled with roses ind MUD IUD I 1 left delta friday forenoon to go down near black rock station alo along the IT U P to toi try to find and get pictures of ancie it indian petro glyphs at P amice about six miles milen or so north ot of blick black porte I 1 found a very interesting series there were prim etive men forms men with wavy lines a vertical sky band it if it may be so called vcr vertical not hon liori contal and lookin exactly like a cutter bar oto oil a mower moner raised for non cutting some ostensible djs ja many rake leads called by bolme falling rain some large deer or some such animal one par pat ticul aily fine one etith ith a sun em blem a circle with rays radiating out from it lust just before the animal s nose a man holding such in em blem and two rathar large very in tere ting groups I 1 had searched thia this area before and coi knew in advance what to look tor for the first night out was passed in ta tie e greasewood greases about a halt half mile from pumice siding I 1 finished up the taking of es there saturday forenoon and moved down two miles or so stop jing ping frequently to search the rocks with a binocular tor for any others that might be found ju t at the curve in the railroad track where it rounds the point of the flow there isi is another ex tensile series many of the rocks having lone examples on them oth ers with alith small a few large groups with many characters in the group two or three are ex interesting some are rub bed so soi deeply or cut whatever the manner of making them may have been that they are in excellent preservation and take good plain photographs others are so dim leither from age or shallow cutting as to be almost entirely obliterated and a few so tar far gone as to be im lin poa po bible to photograph part of saturday morning was so very dark and overcast with clouds that the resultant pictures will be unsatisfactory then there came a clear sky and the pictures taken during that interval will be better saturday afternoon it began to rain farther south from me then to the west and then to the east tow ard cove port rort and kanosh but yet with no rain where I 1 was pottery I 1 aund it black rock black on gi gaii ij among it I 1 moved down to the north end of the union pacific fence at black rock station and there imagine my delight to find small fragments of ly pottery ottery gray average thickness a few smooth and one tiny piece of a beautiful indent PI 1 ware just like bhat I 1 had previously hound at bea ver mind you I 1 was then on bea ver creek and the pottery not fifty feet from the banks of the creek one piece but one only in my search was found which was dec orated with a design in black a good sample of black on gray ware that was a real pleasant surprise for it connects the length ot of bear ver creeel in similar pottery of a corresponding period from the place where beaver creek emerges from the mountains past milford on to black rock and at the mouth of beaded creek where it once en sevier lake at the mouth fit tot sevier river up by deseret and at hinckley again at kanosh all of a similar kind I 1 fragments rag ments of obsidian plentiful M mi be they blade made abrou heads here near pumice there is a series of of obsidian and it la Is my thought that the ancient indians got much os off their obsidian tor for mak ing arrowheads from these outcrop pings for at coyote springs there are thousands of fragments of that material ranging all the scale from the masa mass through flakes pieces chipped oft off pebbles down to nearly useable rejects and a few properly finished near the banks ot the beaver ot op 1 posits pumice I 1 thought from the great quantities ot of obsidian that it was the site of many a teepee vil lage where a smithy in making arrowheads tor for asse ube or tor for barter was actively carried on I 1 found no lourds nor evidences of rooms not that others wont tor for I 1 surely think they wall because at beaver the town there are the ruins of mounds and rooms ha hae have ve been excavated and at kanosh and i t grave suspicion that they might be found on the shores of sevier lake it all connects and shows the same occupancy I 1 climbed to the top of the lava flaw there and high up found some one a very pretty sun emblem and a very well drawn deer but no large groups would that a rosetta stone were thrown among us at black rock they were shearing sheep fifty two all hand wark they told me that an exper lence man would average 60 pelts a day an exceptionally fast man might go as high as eighty but that was an achievement to boast about A man mail was pointed out to me who got sixty the day before two thousand abad were sheared in an afternoon I 1 watched them tor for an hour or more how like treating humans it Is we come in we innocent young lambs like sucker to a bait and are fleeced as our human shacks do us and have done flown down the ages age and go away shorn wiser but only to grow another fleece to be shorn an other season how like the real es tate ate business it is isn t if the rain spoils the plans it had rained just a faw moments before I 1 got to black rock so do that the oads toads t idere ere very slippery and tin un inviting but anyway I 1 pushed on to black rock spring of the station and looked at those pet there I 1 ather escalante Esea lante it is IJ thought thou glat camped at that spring in 1776 when he came through it is ery probable he ile found the wa ter in beaver cheek where it ran iery blow slow and through much alka 11 II just of clear lake where he first encounters it eo so brackish that he hastened on and when the water nater became good in the creek re marked about it that spring would be exactly on his pathway it began too to rain on three sides of me and hard toward cove fort and kanosh so that I 1 gave up trying to get home by that route and turn ed back the way I 1 came 1 I 1 got as far as cruz and found it had rained there tor for a stretch of several miles during the afternoon and water was in the road and bad places were BAD I 1 came to the deep cut of the drain just a few hundred yards south of and saw it was going to be a villian so I 1 got out cut a lot of brush spread it in the tracks put brush in the bottom piled sticks on the sides of the slope and after working more than an hour finally took the chance I 1 went down into it in intermediate because low gear would spin the wheels but inter mediate was not low enough gear and the power t take the car up and out I 1 just fizzled budded and slid back intel into the hole supper and I 1 lugged my bedding over to the section house and asked mr and mrs D L espanola Espa it if I 1 could make my bed down in the dry on their front porch A rather ig jg ending of the exploits 0 ot a globe trotting world famous re search investigator sleeping out all night with a car stuck in the mud myself wet it gently drizzling and end spirits the lowest indebted for hospitality take pictures of twins sunday but halt half the worry Is not to heed it mr and mrs Epa epinosa insisted that I 1 come into the house at least until bed time and I 1 played with one of their twin girls six draw drawing pictures and reading with her great help the funnies ot of the denver post m which she knew right side up upside down front side be tore fore or any which way I 1 got along famously the next morning sunday I 1 hid breakfast with my hosts and while bating cpr the sun to dry out the roads so that I 1 could dare tackle it I 1 spent the forenoon playing in the water holes and mud puddles with the two twins carmen and chris tine fine the most energetic forceful lit tie tle tots imaginable and when the sun got strong I 1 took several 5 of them they had their photos published in the denver post when their parents lived in that city A sheep herder hitched his team to my chug chug cart yanked it out easily taking only a jiffy and about noon I 1 cautiously took the trail considerable mud but nothing worse than merely annoying lunch off the running board just this side of 0 clear lake with storms to the west but lifting over me dry and tailing falling again just beyond me I 1 was favored and so indian information is slowly laboriously and annoyingly gotten good mixed with bad it a 13 all in a life time and they tell me the first hundred years Is the worst nevertheless I 1 enjoy it will live longer fuller and hariper because of riding a hobby prid t be sane ane under a bet FB sr |