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Show Nine Mile Canyon Rock Writings Show Old Culture Nine Mile Canyon is 37 miles southeast of Myton and about fifty miles east of Price, Utah. The canyon floor, through which there runs a beneficient stream of clear water to join the muddy Green River, known as Minnie Maud Creek, is scarcely over a quarter of a mile in width anywhere. any-where. Bordering this narrow ribbon are walls with slight outward slopes that often exceed 500 feet in height, the edges of the adjacent mesas probably exceeding ex-ceeding 1,000 feet in elevation above the valley, while canyados cut the cliff -mesa walls at right angles to join the master canyon. The ancient inhabitants, basket maker, ' ancient Fremont culture people, and especially the Pueblos of Peueblo No. II times of this pitcuresque canyon left their rock writings on every suitable rock face that they could find. Among these almost innumerable innumer-able glyphs are numerous drawing draw-ing of snakes. In fact more than half of the pitcographic groups depict snakes. Several of which are the diamond-spotted rattlers. Many of these are much like and several exactly like the Southwestern South-western plumed horned or feathered feather-ed snake drawings, and conjectur-ally conjectur-ally somewhat like or at least suggestive of the "Great Plumed Serpent" drawings of Mexico and Yucatan. Some of the drawings of these plumed reptiles seem to be represented repre-sented as having been drawn on long strips of buckskin, or were wood carvings, which were either placed in front of the ceremonial actors or were carried in procession proces-sion in certain ceremonies. The drawings also seem to show that snakes, also lightning and possibly fire-dragon worship was a part of the worship of the ancient peoples of this region. Range land has been affected by the lack of moisture more than any other land. Even under this condition there has been considerable consid-erable conservation work done on the range. Help has been given to the ranchers to clear their land and to, reseed. 1400 acres were cleared of brush and 1100 acres reseeded on the rangeland. These practices will restore the grasses, but proper use of the range is necessary to keep it in good production. pro-duction. 25,000 acres of range land have been properly used during dur-ing the past year, but this is on,ly a small part of the total acreage. 1 85 Ponds Built v To help the rancher obtain proper use, there have been 85 stock ponds built to allow stock to utilize all available feed. In many cases the lack of water in an area results in little use of the grass in some spots and overuse over-use in others. There has been quite an interest this past year in private ponds for fish. A total of 30,000 fish were stocked in 40 ponds in the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District during the year. These ponds, if properly managed, will provide a lot of recreation to the farmers as, well as a great many pounds of fish. The District is proud of the conservation accomplishments during dur-ing the( past year, and is looking forward' to even more progress in 1957. There are still a lot of land operators in Uintah and Duchesne Counties who can profit from the services provided through the Soil Conservation District. The District and the Soil Conservation Con-servation Service join in thanking the people of the District for their support, cooperation and friendship friend-ship and look forward to further serving you in the conservation of America's number one asset good land and free people. |