Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1919 — CARVED BY MOTHER NATURE [ARTICLE]

CARVED BY MOTHER NATURE

Remarkable Sctil ptured Face Visible-to-Traveiers in the Deserts of Southern Wyoming. . © Coming across a stretch of southern Wyoming desert hills the rider confronts a remarkable, hideous head, looming up from the sandstone rocks. He may be apt to think that he has made a mistake and' is in a Chinese wilderness, the land where huge dragoqs and grotesquely carved rock figures are found in the wildest and most unexpected places. This comparatlvely soft Wyoming sandstone contains layers and sections of a harder dark stone, which accounts for the heavy markings and the strange irregular shape in,to which the rock has been cut and carved by the erosion of rains of winter and the wlnd'whlpped storm of the " dry summers.The eyes of the "dragon" are small holes being eaten through the rock by the ceaseless sand blast, for the monument is quite thin and sharp if viewed from the side. Doubtless with continual sculpturing it will, before many years, lose its singular expression, and as the holes are enlarged the heavier capping will fall over and leave nothing which resembles the present picturesque head.