Show A visit vo 0 to clin liwe limp fj in wayne K by frank beckwith Beck nth delta I 1 went over ovar to wayne county recently e as the guest of a good friend who said I 1 might find things of in tei terest est in my hobby that thai of prowling around the habitation 1 I of the ancient indian and pee peering ring into his abode A kind of curious s occupation to be sure but teeming with int interest res t tile the nay ay to wayne county from delta is up over the divide which separates the great basin from tile the dr drainage a inage slopes slope of the pacific delta is in the area drained by tile the gr great eat basin in a region of hat flat floor like valleys hills growing g wing lower ind and valleys filling up but tile the drainage dia inage on the eastern part of ut utah ah forms a topography just the opposite immense mountains mo un fains deep gorges and gorge and cleft growing deeper all the time a rugged seamed much water worn area the hill was a hard climb ahti I 1 road passes just south of the fish lake road which is i proverbial for steepness and a full measure of it the motor was boiling just at the N ery cry crest the driver stopped the car and I 1 took the wat wal r bag to tile the radiator to do to the needful whet when the thought named after him the fremont Fremon fc river when major john W powell the one armed man mail of determination floated down the grand canyon of the colorado the unheralded feat of that time he entered at green river wyoming and proceeded down the stream to its confluence with the grand to make the colorado lorido Co at a point just helow below tile the junction of these two sti canis they stopped to camp near heie a little stream emptied into the colo lado ado powell and an assistance assi assis stano explored it a little and P powell owell said looking at the ruddy stream heavy with its load of mud in suspension what river is that 1 I dont know replied the other but its sure a dirty devil and dirty devil was as the rivers name from that time on if you vou will look at a large map of utah you will ill ses see that after the fremont river passes hanksville Hanks ville it becomes become the dirty devil river As a side trip we were driven by auto up the sides of thousand lake mountain un until tit we obtained a view of the painted desert from the other sije ue here roamed in the innumerable the highest of fliers the king of birds he can mount upward to the realm of those above and in in spirit the prayer entrusted to his feathers is IS lik likewise ewie winged ringed aloft mans ili ans eions thereby placed on the knees of the makers of of tile the paths of men I 1 t they hey who shape our lot after placing n t this prayer stick the indian went on oil about his work ork know hip high on the outside but dust and accumulation had filled up the inside to a depth of a little more than a foot dr janies james E talmadge of tile the L D S church had been a visitor there long before me and lie he had go gotten tt e n much two skeletons pottery bas basket k e t work and artifacts galore but the had h a d left cef t me n i e wealth greater than a k kings i n qs r ransom an s 0 for I 1 found on sifting the loose dirt a hollow reed once a part of a pipe steni stein some corri corn husks a piece of squash rind the object enclosed wi within t hin the ring of beans in the upper leit left of tile the photo from the back of which the former man had gnawed off the succulent bit and thrown the fragment to the floor his wife an untidy houge housekeeper keeper had left it there y Z t f C Z 4 aa v P V ct as V JI S f 1 YN I 1 I 1 lat the curios found in a cliff dwellers home in wane county corn on the cob a piece of squash rind surrounded by a group of beans a pumpkin stem a hollow pipe stem reed a bunch of feathers tied with ancient sinew cord a sowing sewing awl sharpened at one end made of bone four kinds of pottery fragment frag ment of buckshin buck slin in lower left corver corner occurred to me why here I 1 am standing on the very crest of the divide turning to in my host I 1 said jim if I 1 pour this water to the west it goes into the great basin and to delta if to the east it goes into the colorado and finds its way to the pacific which is ii true the few drops I 1 poured in each direction found their way one down the great hill we had just climbed to the sevier river and after doing its share toward irrigating near richfield flowed on to delta to do a second service of like kind and then to be lost in the seepage area of sevier lake the other few drops found a descent to the fremont river each holding up its heavy freightage of mud en route until it merged in the rio colorado and mingling in that mighty stream it was churned and lashed swirled in whirlpools tossed in cataracts lashed into a foam in the rapids and fought the sides of the gorge of the mighty grand canyon of the colorado until its force spent it emerged in the lower reaches a quiet and well behaved drop to add to the oceans mighty volume me then drawn by the sun in invisible aqueous vapor it was acted inland and condensed in rain on the mountains to again become water in a desert water bag and go through the same routine endlessly captain john C fremont seven miles beyond we came to a tiny river jim ji in my lost said r under yonder clump of cotton woods and he pointed out four stately trees captain john C fremont stopped on his return from C california alifornia going east and rested four days some of his party cut their initials in the bark of the cottonwoods cotton woods which still carry the ancient scars after a lapse of nearly eighty years the river is I 1 cavines ravines and bullies fit place for hiding more or less of a number of bad men bandits horse lust lers cattle thieves bad bank holdups hold ups blue I 1 john silvertip owen moore butch cassidy and others are reported to have made a rendezvous there and hid up until a time for a cortee was ia greed agreed on when they would sally forth turn the trick and again slink from sight roaming from robbers roost in the grand canyon up as far as jacksons Jock sons hole near the yellowstone I 1 trigger finger itch and lightning pull are terms of the past relegated to limbo their application long forgot except in movies A cliff dwelling we proceeded down the fremont river to torrey and I 1 had the pleasure of walking right into a formerly occupied real cliff dwelling the home of an ancient indian who lived there no one knows how many centuries ago the walls of the ruin were about ing formed of sinews and best of all A prayer stick what pray you readers will ask is a prayer stick when ane indian wanted canted rain for his corn he took a corn com cob stuck a stick into it see this so done next ne t to the bunch of feathers and dra draped e ed it with a tuft of feathers lie he tg then m took that plumed stick to a shrine praye prayed d and stuck the prayer stick into the roc rocks the feathers pointing fa upwards from the tips of which his prayer continued to stream upward to the gods supplicating them to send the blessing bess ing of a shower A light downy feather because it is wafted wafred upward by a mere breath symbolizes the prayer which ascends from the ardent heart upward to god and further those eagle feathers have another As the eagle is some beans nine of them came out of the same room still bright and shiny corn com on the cob think of that after at least six hundred and fifty years corn still on the cob some buckskin the folded object in the lower left corner of the photo still pliable in which was wrapped the bundle I 1 of feathers at the upper rig right h t tied I 1 with a twisted cord of his own making that the efficacy of the symbol surged his prayers heavenward that evening he came back to the shrine and renewed its potency likewise next morning eventually god heard his supplications ions and sent rain I 1 found two tavo of those player sticks of course the feathers which once draped them are gone but I 1 a bundle of feathers to drape them with myself and cant I 1 plume them all the wealth of sevier county ply me loose from the of those worthless scrubby dried old corn cobs each with a perfectly worthless little piece niece of stick pun punched clied up into it dont chide mrs housekeeper with untidiness for had the indian woman of the house of that day tidied up her room or swept her floor with a besom of buccan spines I 1 would never have been attracted to her ho home me nor would your readers be enjoying a recital of the finds she left lying loose it is just that untidiness wh which ell makes her home valuable I 1 will tell your readers in next weeks issue of a pair of sandals found worn borri so much they were patched four times on the botton a baby cradle an urn of the exact pattern used by rebecca at the well and the finding of a lot of baskets all older I 1 than the advent of the spaniards in 1540 to be continued next week |