| Show from axom the diary of a faithful contributor by GUESS WHO T dear jack I 1 have been on a big trip with the associated civic clubs of southern utah I 1 I 1 better tell you about it I 1 took lester peterson Pc terson with me we went over to moab by way of thistle and price lots of activity in the coal camps apparently happy days are arc here again in that section they close their business houses over in price just juat because their football team happened to be playing a championship game that afternoon ter noon I 1 like that spirit we arranged to be late for the meeting in moab where they were making a lot of speeches and still get there plenty early for the banquet where dish bish taylor who runs the moab paper fixed it for me so I 1 could get all I 1 could eat eal dish is a great guy the next morning a caravan started for the navajo indian reservation er frank martines gave me detailed instructions making a lot of statements some of them accurate he said I 1 would see more out of doors than I 1 had ever seen in one place before he was right he also told me that when he was pioneering in that country he built 19 roads of miles I 1 I 1 am not sure this is right we journeyed down through monticello blanding bluff and mexican hat in san juan county some of this route is rather rough two dug ways with barely room for a man to stand alongside the car 20 per cent grade winding and about a mile long with a foot drop to the bottom of a canyon if you leave out any of the numerous turns why jack the tim jim winn road is a city boulevard om to it but we made it and reached harry buildings Guil dins dings trading post near the arizona border sunday afternoon it la is true that on one occasion the sand got too deep for my car you know jack when the sand gets over the rim of your wheels it is difficult to make any headway 3 I 1 got a demonstration of the pushing qualities of the various members of the civic clubs it took the combined efforts of frank martines ray carr lester peterson sam cline bert a couple of fellows from salt lake and some stray nava to me out of the sand hole I 1 had dropped into I 1 can see aee now that when these birds get back of a proposition and start to push something has got to give harrys trading post is an interesting place if you can feature a bunch of red buttes towering from 1500 to 2000 feet above the desert forming a half circle for perhaps a mile a road built by harry H arry himself for several hundred feet on to a flat or mesa there he has leveled off enough ground to build a red rock store where he trades with the whites and the indians indiscriminately harry took us out across the sand into wonderful monumental valley I 1 have an extensive vocabulary and a fairly active imagination but I 1 cannot tell you about the fascination of this place so that you can see for yourself the picture I 1 saw but buc of course it is no place for a tenderfoot I 1 have heard and read of people raving about the beauties of a sunrise and a sunset on a desert well I 1 saw sav a glorious sunset and a moonrise but the sunrise is still hearsay with me while we were out on what is called lookout point where you can see the hills in the four states of utah arizona colorado and new mexico a navajo indian came up across the sand to our campfire As I 1 saw this navajo approach us through the brush all the indian stories I 1 had read when I 1 was a boy and those that jim ramsay had told me in later years flashed through my mind and m my magnificent supply of hair of them in fact promptly on end and I 1 rejoiced that league of nations and the no republicans around were operating era ting between the navajo and the present administration our host harry guilding an indian name which sounds bounds enez he and this began to carry on an conversation in the navajo language to an innocent bystander the navajo language seems to contain a lot of finger and arm movements the next morning we struck out across the reservation it is around miles across we saw indians everywhere I 1 was informed that there were of them on this reservation this may be a literary digest poll I 1 am not sure but I 1 saw plenty you can see their little dwellings everywhere they are called hogans and are arc built wherever the bucks fancy or the squaws squads whim di cates some are out on a dacso late patch of sand with no vegetation around it some in the brush some in the cedars and in the rocks there are signs that they are adopting modern modem civilization we saw many herds of goats and sheep small herds around 50 would generally be tended by tho the squaws squads larger herds by a buck or two and at the government indian school at kmenta we saw a group of small indian ind boys vigorously and lustily playing football in the sand we had a wonderful drive early one morning through a portion of the kaibab forest which is in re aliby one of gods masterpieces I 1 reached kanab in time for court although some of the people had difficulty difficulty in recognizing recognize rec mg i me due to the rainbow appearance of my beard caused from the red sands sanda from around harrys place the yellow sands from hyerta the blue sand from tuba city and jack the few streaks of gray that are arc in my beard are the dust duat from highway 89 in arizona but it was a great trip GUESS WHO |
