The Coconino sun., 1927-06-24

search of the geological history OF
the Navajo country, IN 1913 discover
ing the garnet beds, 30 miles from
here, and determining their origin ano
how formed. From his observations
at that time he published book OF
statistics on the Navajo water sup
1 ply and has been instrumental in get
ting the artesiar wells started and
developed around here, which have
been SO beneficial to the Indians. On
Sunday Prof. Gregory departed for
Grand Canyon where the following
day he attended a meeting Of the
leading geologists and large part of
their program was the discussion Of
the oil situation in the southwest and
another feature comparing notes to
correct any mistakes that may have
been made in the geology of this part
of the country.
Harry Nurnberger and Hoffman
Birney spent Sunday at Cow Springs.
They took dinner with Mr.. and Mrs.
Luke Smythe and started home in
time to reach Kayenta by dark but
! the hard rain that day made the roads
heavy and the car became begged
down and the travellers were COM
PEELED to spend the night in hogan.
On the Bernheimer pack trip over
| the reservation last week several va
rieties of dinosaur tracks were found,
I as well as markings on out-of-the-
way cliffs that could not be explained.
The party explored several huge caves
and natural arches and a natural
bridge 150x125 feet was discovered in
Monumental Valley, 25 miles from
here.
J. B. Douglas went over to Bluff,
Utah, Sunday. Mr.. Douglas is of
Grand Canyon and had been here a
couple of weeks. He will stop at the
oil well Of the Navajo Petroleum cor
poration, near Mexican Hat, and look
after his interests.
Mrs. Ethel Gillespie, formerly cook
at the government school here, has ac-
cepted the position of club cook at
Tuba City.
Frank Wyatt and John Wetherill
left Wednesday for trip to Flag
staff.
James P. Fox and Charles L. Camp
of the museum of paleontology, Uni
versity of California, Berkeley, have
been working in this neighborhood
this week. On Thursday they de-
parted for Bluff.
Arriving in Kayenta Monday, Geo.
G. Cantwell and Paul E.. Trapier of
Palms, Colo, were busy men for few
days. They are members of the United
States biological survey and are max
ing trip Of investigation through the
state of Arizona gathering specimens
of birds, animals and reptiles. They
have very wonderful collection and
few people would dream such vari-
ETY. could be obtained in our commun-
ity. One reason for this is that most
of the desert animals are nocturnal IN
their habits Again it is brought
home to us that we live in a truly in
teresting spot of the globe. These
specimens are nicely mounted and
will be sent to the national museum
at Washington, d. c., where they will
be displayed with a life history of
each subject, when and where found,
what they feed on, where they make
their burrows, time of year they
breed, how many in litter, their rela-
ton to agriculture, their habits, or
any peculiar trait discovered Aside
from the interesting feature of such
a collection it has decided economic
value as we'll Occasionally plague
breaks out in some section OF the
country and the data is all ready to
be reviewed in deciding a campaign of
determination of these pests. This
state was surveyed about three years
ago but so many new phases have
developed that it was advisable to add
to that first obtained. The first col
lectors followed pretty much the
beaten paths so Mr. Cantwell and Mr..
Trapier are exploring the out-of-the
way regions. On this trip they have
crossed the state three times, filling
in the odd spots and not touching the
territory around Grand Canyon, which
has been thoroughly covered. All this
data will be published by the govern
ment in a regular bulletin for dis
tribution, North American Fauna"
series. In Preacher Smiths yard a
side-winder rattlesnake was captured,
a very poisonous, though not large,
reptile. While this snake is not par
ticularly rare in some places it is de-
cidedly uncommon in this part of the
desert, the gentlemen stating they had
no idea of finding one here and IN all
probability another would not be en-
countered out here in a lifetime. A
very rare bird Of the swift, or swal-
low, family was found in Blue Can
yon II is the nest of this same
variety that furnishes such a delicacy
as bird nest soup in China. The nest
was built on such an inaccessible cliff
it was impossible to get any of the
eggs, which are valued at $40 apiece.
Mr.. Cantwell gave little talk to the
children of the government school at
the manse Wednesday evening and
Thursday morning he and his assist
ant departed for the Lukachukai
mountains and they expect to complete
their work there by the 30th Of this
month, when they will return to head
quarters.
Mr.. Fox, Mr. Camp, Mr.. Birney and
Miss Marshall made a trip over to
Segi-hot-sosi Tuesday. On Thursday
Mr.. Birney and Miss Marshall left for
Flagstaff. At that place Mr.. Birney
will be joined by his wife and they
will drive to Pennington, n M. Miss
Marshall will take the train at Flag
staff for her home at Duluth, MINI.
Dick Dunaway was here from Chin
lee Friday.
Harold Hardy made a business trip
to Flagstaff this week returning Fri