The Dolores star., 1924-07-25

OF the nutionoI monuments chosen for ilustra-
tiOn Bryce Canyon has just been given hatl"hn'
park honors. A bill for its creation us the ot"i
National park was passed in the closing hours OF
the last session of congress. Its feature Is ooN
canyon three miles long and two miles wde' cut
1000 feet into the Paunsaugunt plateau of SOUTH
eastern Utah. There is wonderful variety OF
erosional form, which painted in every color,
shade and tint of the spectrum--reds pinks,
creams, tans, lavenders. puppies, blues, greens,
chocolates and whites 1t takes high rank among
natural wonders The act provides that before
Bryce Canyon becomes Utah National park, all
lands in the area must be conveyed to the United
States. Utah and the Union Pacific own $40 acres.
The Petrified Forest contains the most wonder
full collection of petrlfed trees in the world These
trees lie in three groups, which really are not for
ests mt all. for most of the trunks washed
to their present positions eroded plain by
prehistoric floods from forests far away Many
of the trunks exceed 100 feet in length One log,
III feet long, bridges canyon 40 feet wide. The
state Of naturalization of the wood almost places
1t among the precious stones. Not only chal-
cedony, opals and agates on view but jasper
and onyx.
The Devils Tower Is an extraordinary of
igneous rock and is of the most conspicuous
features of the Black Hills region of Wyoming. 1t
has been landmark from prehistoric times. First
there is the level plain, then rounded wooded
hill GOO feet high and top of that the tower GOO
feet high and mile in circumference. Its sides
are Huted by great columns which stand perpen-
dicular, except where they flare at the base
and in at the top. These columns. about feet in
diameter. are mostly pentagonal, but some are
four-sided and some sx-sded
Ell Moro National monument is landmark to
thrill good American. Two enormous connected
rocks of var-colored eroded sandstone rise abrupt
ly from the arid plain. One suggests a castle and
is called Ell Moro. The other is called Inscription
Rock because ii bears priceless historical records
For nearly four centuries ago these walls echoed
the clank of the steel harness of Conuuistadores
and the prayers of franciscan Martyrs There
was spring there and a shallow and soldier
and priest turned aside to them from the old Zunl
trail. And there they cut their names and the why
and wherefore of their comlngs and goings.
An Inscription perhaps as important any Is
this, cut by Don Juan de Onate IA years before
the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock:
Paso por aqui de adelantado don Juan de onate
del 1906.
Passed by here the provincial chief Don Juan de
Onate from the discovery of the South Sea the
18th of April 1906
This approximately fixes the date of the found
ing of SANTA Fe, as 1t is known Onate fixed his
capital there upon his return from the Gulf of
California
Scarcely less interesting is the Inscrjption here
with reproduced by Don Diego de Vargas Zapata
Lujan Ponce de Leon:
Aqui estaba ell Gen On Do de Vargas quen con-
auisto nestra santa fe la real corona todo al
nueva Mexico a su costa de 1892.
Here was the General Don Diego de Vargas who
CONQUERED TO our holy faith and the royal crown all
New Mexico at his own expense. year of 1892
Inc indians had risen against the Spaniards In
Santa Fe In 1850, massacred them and driven tban,
out, and destroyed far possible all traces of
civilization and Christianity. For twelve veors
they enjoyed their ancient independence IT wos
Diego de Vargas who reconluered the region in
1903. 7 :"
There are more than 80 of these InscrInt,o,s
Ihey contain names great in those times-Nieto
who escorted the first missionaries to Zun in 1000
Luoan, who avenged the murder of Fray Francisco
Letrado In 1882: Archuleta. Uribarrl--ond en- ~
GOWN INTO the first half Of the Eighteenth century
"nele IN al the world Is there more fascinat
ing historical relic than Inscription Rock,