Show midget horse found in nearby canyon this paper received a ing distance call from new york city last friday from the american weekly magazine viking for a story about the midget horse captured last month by grazier dalton meeks in one odthe of the in access ible canyons of acu hern utah ulah although we had no information about it at that time wo wa have air ce collected data and interviewed mr meeks in order to send he desired story on its way in brief the story follows ol lows while rounding up useless ar an 3 abandoned horses in accord with tha t h grazing service program ram a at mentioned in this paper in previous time mr meeks discovered the midget mare in the canyon A trail had to be built in order t U get the animal out but aside from froin this task it was easy to capture the horse which seemed unafraid onafra lie of the men the mare is but 3 feet high and weighs pounds accounting for the small size mr meeks thinks it is due clue to the difficult existence of its ancestors in that tha wild wila and barren section of the state the area lacks sufficient water for foe livestock and it is a mystery how any animal could survive in the dry season since the only available water cines from the san juan river w which h i c h hows flows through another inaccessible canyon nearby I 1 it is thought that the midget mid et horse might have lived its entire life of about five yeav year i in the canyon where it was found and that it could coald be a descendant of the early indian horses or astray from one of the types of hors borsi used by the early mormon settlers who made the trip across th the state estate nearly early years ago not noi fir from the p point 0 1 n t where the horse was found the mapelet was to monticello al ng with 40 othal horses and according to mr meeks meaks stood the trip even better than some of the larger animals not being accustomed to water it took five days to teach it to drink it was kept in a corral near the heber frost properties until last sunday when it was taken to salt lake city to be placed in a museum mr mi meeks has received a number of offers for the horse but refuse to sell it A complete story has been sen sent t t tj the new york office of the american weekly magai magazine ine |