Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1916 — CHILD’S SKELETON IN CAVE [ARTICLE]

CHILD’S SKELETON IN CAVE

Interesting Discoveries Made on a Farm In Dry Rock Canyon • in Utah.

Vernal. Utah.—A cave In which on a solid rock wall there is the Imprint of a human hand as If It were made when the rock was plastic has been discovered on the farm of John AV. Weist In L>ry lioek canyon, eight miles northwest of tills town. On the rock are all sorts of hieroglyphics and the cave contained the skeleton of a child wrapped in bark, Indian fashion. In removing asli heaps Weist found corncobs, a few grains of corn and an arrow of cane spiked with greasewood. He regrets now that he did not preserve the kernels of corn and plant them in hope that corn of an ancient culture might be again produced, but at the time he thought, of course, their presence nmong the ashes precluded the possibility of life germs being retained. “The arrow was kept, but the bark-wrapped skeleton was put into a five-gallon can and buried.