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Backwoods U, S.A. you say there was 1 war?

The tiny village of Fruita on the Fremont River i in southern Utah
was for many years the most isolated community in the United
States. Founded by a small group of Mormons and with virtually.
no access to the outside world, the villagers were for ycars unaware

that the First World War had taken place.

They had brought with them a few fruit trees and olive secdlings,
‘along with a bit of grain and a few head of livestock. They grew
sorghum as a source of sugar, used the water from the river for
irrigating a limited amount of arable land and found themselves
quite sclf-sufficient in their narrow, steep-walled canyon.

We left Capitol Reef and drove over the high Aquarius Plateau
with snow on cither side of the relatively new highway and
magnificent scenery on every side. Aspens, resplendent in
gicaming snow-white bark, stood majestically among towering
ycllow conifers decked with rounded hoods of bright, carly spring

green.

Sucams far below ran their intricate way into distant canyons,
their courses accented by the bright cottonwoods growing along
their banks where sufficient moisture was available in the

semi-desert lowlands.

At length, we reached Boulder, then Escalante and finally,
incredible Bryce Canyon with its myriad of richly colored rock
formations, its steep inviting trails, its wonderland of intriguing,

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B.C. Ferrics switched 10. ‘houily:

. sailings from Swartz Bay starting

“May 19, ‘in. time to handle the .
onslaught of traffic ‘over the long: |

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On Friday, ferrics carried 3,076

vehicles and 11,347. passengers
from. Swartz. Bay to Tsawwassen
and 3,698 vehicles and 14,406
passengers on the return voyages
from-Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay.

On: Saturday, there were 2,451.

vehicles and 9,588 passengers tra-
velling from Swartz Bay to. the
mainland and 3,380 vehicles plus
14,290 passengers coming to the
island from Tsawwassen, oe
On Sunday ‘there were 3,026
@chicles and 11,621 passengers
carried from. Swartz Bay to
Tsawwassen, Return trips
2,763. vehicles and 11,200 people
to Swarts Bay, 7

The heaviest traffic was Mon-»

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day," with: 3,553 vohibles and

~ 17,513 people : ‘traveling from

taking the ferry from Tsawwassen
‘to Swartz Bay. °. :

Ferries Icave Swartz Bay, and
Tsawwassen on the hour from 7

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thought-provoking forms. Towcring, richly tinted columns, walls of
“windows,”’ ‘‘Wall Street,” “fairy castles”: the “sinking ship,” the
“Queen’s Garden,” replete with Queen Victoria in flowing robes
of purest white, presiding majestically over her colorful, ornamen-
tal grounds.

Each day spent here with the play of light and shadow on the

ast assemblage of color was 24 hours too short. From Fairyland

Point to Sunrise, Sunset, Bryce and: Paria Views to Inspiration
Point the angle of the sun and reflecting surfaces dictated the depth
of hue while close-ups on the trails below added infinite textures.

Back from the rim of the superb canyon, we found ourselves ina
colony of prairie dog people which took us right back home.
Checky little prairie dog kids mingled with buxom madamics,
husky demanding daddies, venerable patriarchs, secure in their
fancied enviable positions of authority. ‘There were experimental
teenagers by the dozens, teen-agers cager to kick over the traces
and become conlorming non-conformists.

The broader-beamed mothers were more settled and staid, the |

~ solid core of the colony of rodents, the real decision makers who
saw all events in perspective and held. the reins of acceptable
behavior.
There was an element of give-and-talkc in their philosophy, an
element of flexibility which tended to insure the gencral stability
of the group and retain the membership in the viable community.

On one occasion, we noted an obviously lactating Mom
playfully nip her temporary, live-in boyfriend on the car as he
-stood upright upon their mound, intent: upon surveying a number
of chirping lassics frolicking in the sege a few yards away.

when he dropped to all. fours and made motions to join the girls,

she immediatcly threw her head back and barked sharply. Her tail, -
which appeared to be directly connecu2zd with her voice box, rose ..

and fell in unison-with the warning si gnals which she uttered. to’
the human observer, she seemed to be. saying, “Now, John, you’ve
seen girls before, so just act your age! Settle down and enjoy the
scenery.”

John sctiled, flaucning himself upon the mound and yawning.
prodigiously..He’d have a lite nap and perhaps a short dream,

recalling the Don Juan days when total. freedom permitted a more

permissive life-style.
And off to the left we noticed: a lean, particularly active fellow,

~ who’ scurried quickly about. He was digging shallow excavations

here and there as though marking suitable spots where-additioral

~ burrows might be dug. He looked for. all the: world ‘like thes -[-
_ « developer-lype, busily securing sites. for expansion ‘of the colony.

: reality percolation pits?: Were : a
they midden. sites?: Or: was: sihe just playing his ow ‘game? enon

Were his’ shallow: excavations’ in.

a.m.. until: 7. p.m. ‘daily ® with the

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