Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-08-22 | Page 1 | Prof. Cummings and Party off on Trip

Prof. Cummings And Party Off On Trip Prof. Byron Cummings, dean of the university of Utah, accompanied by his wife and son, Malcolm Cummings, Cum-mings, and nine other Utah men left Moab Monday afternoon for the natural bridges of San Juan county and the Navajo county of southern Utah and northern Arizona. The party will be gone five weeks. Prof. Cummings hopes to explore several large cliff dwellings which he discovered on previous trips and he will also make a s;tudy of thi houses and relics of the cliff dwell ers, in his endeavor to establisl more fully his contention that the Hopi Indians are the decendants of the ancient people. Those of the party besides the Cummings, are: Dr.. Straiton, Miss Brooks, W. W. Stratton, G. A. Rynearson, Lon Harper ana J. Stockman, of Salt Lake City; J. F. Anderson of Monroe, Utah; Leslie Frazer of Beaver, Utah; pnd A. C. Jensen of Mt. Pleasant, Utah. Grand Valley Times.