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When control of the land around Lehman Cave passed from National Forest Service control the the National Park service, the Forest Service took "their chlorinators" out of the campgrounds and since no treated water supply is available, no fee is presently being charged to camp in some very beautiful campsites. Those campsites instantly remind a Pleasant Grove camper of sites found at Timpanookee up American Fork Canyon. A park ranger said "we expect to have new chlorinators in place soon and then will charge $4 per day for the use of the campsites." Lehman Cave tours cost $2 for adults and $1 for children and run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. A special "candle light" tour, limited to 15 people, is given each day at 12::i) nm After taking both, I recommend doing just that. The Cave is fascinating both ways and is well worth the time and money. Eating at our camp took on a new twist as we forgot utensils to eat with. Truly, fingers were invented before forks! The closest town, Baker, Nevada, is a sleepy one gas station spot, five miles from the Park entrance. Baker has the necessities, but little else. Ely is 68 miles further on and has better accommodations for those who don't like sleeping on the ground. If you have fought the crowds at Yellowstone or any of the other National Parks lately, a trip to Great Basin National Park might be a pleasant treat for the family. The Park has other features besides Lehman Cave. These include a bristlecone forest where the oldest living things, bristelcone pines grow, a 75 foot limestone arch, several beautiful alpine lakes and for the hardy, a climb up 13,063 foot Wheeler Peak. One story, with more than a bit of irony, was told by a cute Park Ranger named Betty at an evening fireside program. Betty, a student at James Madison University in Virginia, said that a "few years ago, when the bristlecone forest was under control of the National Forest Service, permission was given to a doctoral student to cut down a bristlecone pine to determine its age. The tree turned out to be 4,900 years old, meaning it started growing about the same time as the Egyptians were making plans for the Great Pyramids. Unfortunately, the Park service believes that the student cut down the oldest tree!" A cross section of the tree is on display in the Lehman Cave Visitor Center. We were unable to visit the bristlecone forest due to snow on the trail but will certainly do so on another visit to Great Basin National Park. By JACK HIM, Great Basin National Park. America's newest, is 20 miles across the Utah State line in Nevada on Highway just 95 miles west of Delta. From Pleasant Grove take south to Santaquin and then head west on a good two lane road through Elberta, Eureka and Delta to Baker, Nevada. The park is five miles up a gradual climb out of the desert into the mahogany covered foothills. The best known feature of Great Basin National Park is Lehman Caves. Named for their reported discoverer, Absalom Lehman, the cave is a fairlyand of stralagtites, stalamites and pillars. Stalagtites are rock formations that grow from the ceiling downward and stalamites grow from the floor upward. Both are the result of water dissolving and then depositing calcite. Lehman Cave, pronounced "Lay-man," in the professionally produced film shown at the visitors center just inside the park entrance, and "Lee-man- " by most of the park rangers, draws 20,000 visitors an-nually and that number is expected to grow now that the Cave is part of a national park. The man given credit for discovering the Cave, Abe Lehman, left his home in Ohio at the age of 22 to join the wild 1849 gold rush to California. Like most of the prospectors, he came up empty in the search for gold out of the earth but like an astute few, he decided that the best way to wealth was to mine the miners. With the profits from his supply store, Lehman bought a small ranch at the foot of 13,063 foot Wheeler Peak, planted an orchard and settled down. A few-ol-apricot trees planted by Lehman still grow in front of the Cave Visitor Center and are loaded this year with fruit. As a lifelong wanderer, Lehman continually explored his ranch and climbed to the top of Wheeler Peak where he was amazed to observe that he could, on a clear day, see all the way to Mt. Nebo in central Utah. The most reliable account states that while on one of his ranch explorations in 1869, a cold breeze coming from a hole in the ground, caused Lehman to lower himself into the Cave opening by rope. Soon Lehman was telling friends and the press about the cave and it wasn't many years before he was charging admission to see the wonders of the Cave. Archealogical digs in 1938 and 1964 indicate that Lehman was not the first human to discover the cave, but it was certainly Lehman who developed the cave for visitors. Newspaper stories of the 1880's give glowing descriptions of "Lehman's Wonderful Cave," and visitors came from all over to see the marvelous underground chamber. President Warren Harding made the cave a National Monument in 1922 and the National Park Service took over control of the Cave in 1933. Prior to passing into government hands, the Cave was owned by several private individuals and at one point, square dances were reportedly held in one of the larger cave rooms. From a National Monument to a National Park took 64 years of battling special interest groups and the enabling legislation that created Great Basin National Park in Oc-tober, 1986, has some special provisions. Cattle grazing is still allowed in the Park and there are still active mines within the Park boundaries. State provides food for camps Utah non-prof- it summer camps such as the Boy Scout and Girl Scout Councils, Jewish Community Center. Cystic Fibrosis and many, many more will be able to receive food commodities free thanks to a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Utah State Department of Social Service. The USDA donates commodities for use by non-prof- summer camps whose participants are between five and 18 years of age and which meet the civil rights requirements. In Utah, the distribution agency for these commodities is the Utah State Department of Social Services through the Federal Food Program. The variety and quantity of foods is limited and will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis. Organizations desiring more information may write the Utah State Department of Social Services or call 533-560- Girls clinics in volleyball and basketball to be offered All girl athletes in grades 7 through 12 are reminded that volleyball and basketball clinics will be held beginning next week. The volleyball clinic will be held July and the basketball clinic will be July 13 through 17, according to Coach Marie Bone who will conduct the clinics. Each clinic will be held at Pleasant Grove High School from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. each day. Basic skills will be stressed. Each clinic costs $20 per girl which can be paid the first day of the clinic. For further information call Coach Bone at 225-091- The gym will be open starting July 20 on every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. until noon for girls wating to play volleyball or basketball. High school volleyball tryouts will start Aug. 17 at 10 a.m. |