Show E OF BRICE 1 ON 1876 18 the earliest known reference to edryce canyon was unearthed recent 15 from the files ot the public sur vey office at salt lake city by G D D kirkpatrick district cadastral engineer the description was writ ten by T C bailey deputy V U S 8 surveyor Sur velor on nov IS 18 1876 mr bailey was surveying a it guide merld I lan an and came to the place now 1 known as sunset point where the view so impressed him that be he in eluded the following in his field note notes immediately at the east and south of the last corner set th surface braaks off almost perpendicularly P 0 o a del belth th of several hundred feet it seems indeed as though the bottom had dropped out and left rocks standing in all shapes and forms as lone sentinels over the grotesque and slid picturesque scene there are thousands of red white and ier germillion mIllion colored rocks of all sizes resembling sentinels on the walls of castles monks and priests with their robes at end ants cath edrald and there are deep caneris resembling ruins of prisons castles churches with their guarded walls battlements spires steeples niches and recesses pre enting the wildest will dest and most wonder tul ful scene that the eye of man ever beheld in tact fact it Is one of the |