Show SHORT FOSSIL TRIP friday mr air and mrs charles kel ly ily of salt lake city came down to delta and mr kelly mr beckwith and mr harold V parker went out to disappio mountains to hunt for fossils the ma erial there which mr parker had seen and which he was told were fossils proved to be large concretions only so the party left that field and went across tule plats flats to dome can yon and to antelope spring while on tule flats they saw one of those very very bad windstorms in which a high gale lifts up tons and tons of dust and hurtles it through the air totally obscuring everything from vision in its path they avoided the path of the severest part of the storm and kept on the elges but even at that the whipping dust stung the face and back toward the worst of it ev grything ery thing was cut off from sight by the dust cloud one very interesting thing noted in the storm was the wind erosion the gale lifted the loose dirt from the ground but where the roots of a greasewood protected it that hump ivas was left and all over that part of the flats were thousands upon ands of hummocks or large cones 4 say 8 to 10 and 12 feet in diameter with a greasewood growing out of the top and the earth all around low ered below the normal level very aurous there was so much dust in the air that a successful photo could not be taken at antelope they worked tor for orna orria finding a few and the cache of re ejects which the john brothers of clear lake left for them a year or so ago then they went to the east side of wheeler Ampi theatre and hunted for Ne olenus finding a few fairly good specimens there they went from there to north canyon at the hock rock quarry finding one or two there but nothing important next they went to marcum pass delving in the old paint mine there in which mr kelly got by breaking apart the shale a few specimens of sunday night a slight and faint aurora borealis Dore alls northern lights they saw three antelope on the trip one very dark colored badger no rat tie snake for bedfellows and no scorpions shaken out of their shoes in fact no heroics |