Show I Three from Coalville Visit Old I Indian Ruins in Southern Utah t After years of looking at the map and nd wondering just what was wasi In Hat and why it was wasso I so named Glen Olen Blonquist Eugene Brooks and Ellsworth Robinson spent a week in Southern Utah to fo find out for themselves Points of Interest visited were Moab Moab Bla Blanding 1 Ung Bluff and Mexican Mex Max ican Hat I t L r MOKI RUINS They spent five days exploring Moki Indian ruins which are reported reported re- re I ported to be more than Joo years old The three found a burial crypt in Coombs Wash but were unable to o get inside of it It is 15 is' is believed that the Mold Moki of ot yesteryear yester eiter year purposely arranged the crypt so that It it is impossible to enter without special equipment They brought home a n. few fey broken broken brok brok- en pieces of ot fire pottery da dating ng I back to the e year 1000 corrugated ted pottery dating back to 1100 and I pOl chromate pottery from fron 1200 They learned a great deal about aboul the a tribe In which the I larg largest t. t man was was' only four lour feet tall The Mold Moki Indians left Southeastern Southeastern South SOuth- eastern Utah about 1250 AD A.D. be because because be- be cause of drought The country and canyons are full of the cliff dwellings they abandoned The Coalville men said sald there are places in the area area that white men have never reached because there are no ro roads c s and no water The canyons are arc too rugged to enter They y visited several modern modem day Indian trading posts and brought I back blankets rugs pottery and oth other r souvenirs They took many pictures movies color and black and white i FIRST WHITE MAN MANThe I The trio interviewed the first white settler of Blanding Albert J Lyman 88 a colorful figure He lIe has done almost everything from train I I cow puncher and lawyer to school teacher He lIe now runs a II museum I and tourist Information center centers The Summit County men men traveled trav traveled trav ZOO miles mUes on oiled highways I and aM on dirt roads ab about ut half of w which t h we Were nothing more than sheep and coy cow W trails After all aU this rough travel they had only one flat tire tre By pooling expenses they got by for lor or 8 65 each forI forgas for forgas I gas and 12 for food They drove a jeep and slept in a a trailer I I I |