The big lake of warm water had been drained away. It had gone out
through the mountains by the present cañon of Green River, and of
the Big River. The old bed in the Toom-pin-to-weep is where the
warm lake waters were drained. Next, all the big deer and the big
oxen with white horns wandered eastward and perished from cold or
by the arrows of the Ute hunters. Soon after a big flood formed
Grand River Cañon. After this came a race of small people who
brought seed corn of a small kind, called Chiquito maize. They also
brought skin canoes. They had silver and gold in abundance, and
iron tools which they had gathered in the mountains to the
northeast.
These little people were almost white. They built stone houses in
the cliffs, and cultivated corn, beans, and pumpkins. They taught
the Utes how to make spears and bows. Soon big red Indians came
over from the northeast and drove off the little people, who went
south. The big red men also went away. These were the Apaches,
Navajos, Kiowas. Down among these tribes were found the big oxen
with white horns, and the grande lagarios (alligators). By-and-by
the country became dry and cold, and only the Utes were left on the
Big River and its branches. Then melted rocks were poured out and
the country was left desolate.
SYBEL NEWELL STONE.
SELAK, COLO.
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Questions and Answers.
Claude G. Smith, William F. Tillson, Hubbard Marsh, Lawrence Fraley,
Albert R. Bullman, Frances De Berard, Rolfe McCollom, G. Du Bois, and a
score or more others are reminded that the Table has no exchange column,
and cannot publish notices of trades, as of stamps, pictures, addresses,
printing-presses, and the like. We should be happy to oblige members in
this respect, but space does not permit. We do not give the addresses
because improper uses are often made of them by unscrupulous persons.
The only exceptions we make--and these we do not make often--are in
publishing the names of members in far-away countries, since advertisers
rarely use such, and cases where requests are purely educational, as in
getting seeds to plant and study, gathering mosses for a natural history
collection, etc. We repeat that we much regret that we cannot oblige you
in these respects. Charles W. Anderson and Charles Cohen apply for
Patents and give no addresses.
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