Show LF 1 SCHOOL TAKES TARES interesting TRIP last saturday E A harding prin cipal of the leamington leavington Lea school bro brot t down twenty five students and I 1 pi doted them to clear lake to hunt tor for indian relics relies I 1 we v e stopped first at old fort dea des eret read the bronze plaque on the monument and walked into the fort where the story was told ot of its build ing and incidents at the banquet and dance given by the losing squad from there we went to clear lake and on the first few feet hunting one of the girls found a bird ar bowhead small neat and then an other in a few minutes two tine fine pieces of pottery were found of the indented ware good type specimens and well worth the entire trip this indenting may not have been done by using cane as ita it looks a trifle lare lar and coarse tor for that procedure but it was not of the thumb nail k kind ind without study I 1 incline to think that it was indented with the kids grabbed up lizards one izard lizard broke his tall in two a trick hey they have tor for getting away but this one was snatched up again and tucked tor for keeps in a bottle A blow snake gopher snake was found later a longitudinally strip ed d blue racer 9 which may have just shed its skin tor for the last time 11 season for it stunk very badly the lubricant tor for shedding the skin smells something awful the kids wore these snakes en twined around their wrists and took them and the lizards home at clear lake there were combar actively few ducks no geese some pelicans water high and bad for is us we got into mud found no more indian belics of any kind ate lunen ind and went to the indian it at the old road which came down he the brink of the lava flow there we saw chief one feather hiet chief three feathers the bisected circle the four winds whirlwind scroll and all the glyphs there barclay john was then at clear lake and he gave mr harding a me tate a mano and a floor rub stone to take for the school oh ch while we were en on the west side of the lake between it and the big Pa hant butte I 1 told the class that we were then practically on the very spot which father escalante trod in 1776 as he came between the butte and the lake then follow ed up beaver creek and so out of millard county he was the first white person that we have a record r e cord of to set toot foot in millard county As I 1 talked all the while cleft mountain could be plainly seen to the south it was discussed and its mention by carvallo in the 1850 s recited there were some excellent ml mt rages seen during the day very life like water and one just as the pas frost on tuesday morning train pulled toward clear lake station the train seemingly floated on a deep lake drawn dr awn over the water like an aquaplane ne skim ming the surface very deceptive yet exceedingly interesting continuing our journey we went around the lava how flow by way of 0 des eret crossed the old river channel of the sevier and quickly came to the great stone face the guardian of deseret the striking resemblance to the profile portraits aits alts of joseph smith in the early 1830 s we stood by and studied the features and marvelled marvellee marvel led that the spew or core sculpturing a remnant of 0 erosion could form such a fascinating hu man face likeness of the lava rock mr harding was shown the pro TIO vo leel or terrace of old lake bon don neville just below us then the loca tion of the trilobites was pointed out the gold mining area where to paz mountain was the hot plug on crater bench mount belnap in very plain sight all covered with snow on its lofty head rearing 12 feet above sea level As it was that day white it was perfect tor for its indian name of tushar meaning white wearing tushar toots white hair on its summit there is much that can be talked about from that point of 0 vantage snail shells of the former fresh water lake so abundant that they were mined for and hard finish material for plastering the old moody salt marsh when the po got their salt from it notch peak where sevier lake was about 22 25 miles from us etc etc from there we went back to th the e first issue ot of the deseret news and told what the indians say it Is and means then around the cor ner to the many where we stopped at story bock rock at the goat glyphs before bisected circles and finished at pole that walks and discussed what it may represent in being a rude drawing of the in dian than dance drama now perfumed perfo med best at san domin go in which the head man carries a pole that is the pole walks and women and maidens in big tablets headdresses accompany the process ion from there we returned to delta the kids took a bite of supper and when it got dark I 1 showed them ju piter and his four moons and saturn and his ring through the small tele scope this completed the day |