Show UN map PED THE SPOT TO BE EXPLORED BY A vast district in utah and arizona A primeval wonderland to be investigated equal to anything in national parks at last san juan co county utah with u aart r of arizona contiguous from bluff to Kay ertta and on down into the iho fastness fast nesa in tile tho san juan river basin Is to be given a carefully care full study which it has never had bad last week we mentioned the fact that a california e expedition would spend the summer in the region so little known following la is a summary of oc the official program purpose exploration and scientific reconnaissance of to TOO square miles lying about miles northeast of tho the grand canyon some major feat ures such as monument valley nav ajo mountains rainbow bridge cliff dwellings of tile the Det De alcin keet seel and inscription house have been inspected I 1 spec ted dut but the greater part of the region Is practically unexplored it has been propped as a national park reports to be roade made topography and scenic features daso baso map to be made by alon and table work archaeological remains geological reconnaissance reports of flora and fauna scientific staff C latic lW tic an on en om of the U of cal chief of party and in charge of biological field studies dr chas L camp director of museum of paleontology of the U of cal dr herbert E gregory director of th the bishop Alu museum seum hawaii professor of geology at yale university and member ot of the U S G S archaeologist to be appointed T L mays in rhirie 0 of mapping and assembler dat dali on oil topography benjamin ri 01 1 nava navajo ja ater I 1 cpr and anson r P hall ogra nizer ot of expedition but may not bo be li tile the field work ten or more inore university graduates and students especially selected will take part and bear their portion of the cost ten weeks time will be spent travel will bo be by camping bus and wilt will leave berkeley cal june 3rd ard and after completing the main program will return via gracil caryan wid go through zion and bryce parks to salt lake city and return by way w ay ot of lako lake tahoe nevada 1 via GU dently antly this Is inspired largely by tile the visit made last summer into monument valley when director of nation al parks albright was with a group of 0 men just looking into the territory to see what they could see D C jackling the well known mining ruan man and geologist was with another group last year these and other parties went in from the arizona bide and made the 11 IL T goulding post headquarters down in ii monument valley while the entire region including sout southwestern western colorado part of new nevi mexico and a strip of arizona is abound h scenic ataw tr actions icons fractions tractions with utah sector it to a frue me that important wonders abound in that area of square ml claying laying mostly in utah the natural bridges the san juan river mexican hat monument valley and rainbow bridge are outlines of this unexplored section the part unmapped being between these known wonders an eastern dally daily paper gave quite a story last week under the caption blank spot on the map utah seems to know less about it than many another state |