FEBRUARY, 1951 35 CENTS - Desert Magazine of the Southwest

or Jack Hillers subsequently returned
to Kanab and continued his photographic
work. In mid-February of
1873 the map was completed and was
taken to Salt Lake City by Dellenbaugh.
Concerning their stay in Kanab,
Thompson made the following entry
in his diary (Utah Historical Quarterly,
vol. 7, 1939:106): "Friday, November
29th. (The party) At work getting
ready to move north. Decided
that I would winter here, keep Fred,
and with him and John, make the best
map I could. Am to pay Fred $400.00
when he is through." Dellenbaugh
wrote: (see foot note page 107) "Prof,
concluded to make winter headquarters
in Kanab and a lot was rented for the
purpose. On December 3rd, we put
up a large tent in one corner, with two
small ones for rations and saddles.
The next day we put up one in the
other corner for Prof, and Mrs.
Thompson, and at the back of the lot
we arranged a corral for the horses or
mules we might want to catch. The
large tents were floored with pine
boards and along the sides heavy cedar
boughs were placed in crotches around
which the guy ropes were passed before
staking. The tents thus were dry
inside and could not blow down. A
conical iron stove on a boxing of
earth heated the large tent like a furnace.
In the middle of the general
tent we placed a long drafting-table
and were ready for work. Another
tent, half boards, was erected near
ours for kitchen and dining-room, and
Riley, who had turned up again, hired
as cook and master of this structure.
Prof, arranged for a supply of potatoes,
butter, meats, and everything
within reason, so we lived very well,
with an occasional dash of Dixie wine
to add zest."
Neither Thompson nor Dellenbaugh
make specific mention in their journals
of their activities on January 25,
1873, the date of the insignia, but
there can be little doubt that this is a
genuine Dellenbaugh inscription. The
date on the rock was near the time of
completion of the map and doubtless
Thompson was thinking of his next
project of extending the topographic
survey to the surrounding plateau
areas. He speaks of Jack starting for
Mt. Trumbull on January 24th with
an Indian. On Sunday, February 2nd,
he comments "Plotted trail up Kanab
Wash." It may be that Dellenbaugh
was doing some exploratory work in
this latter connection while awaiting
the completion of the map so he could
leave for Salt Lake City and this work
took him up Cave Lakes Canyon. Or
he may have had a day off and visited
the area. Two other names are associated
with Dellenbaugh's as may be
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To MT. CARMEL JCT, ZlON & BRYCE
Cave with t
Dellenbaugh's
Name
To PIPE SPRING NATIONAL MONUMENT
seen in the accompanying picture.
Fred Haycock was doubtless a relative
of Joseph Haycock who assisted
Thompson in the activities of 1873 in
mapping the country east to the Paria
and westward to the Pine Valley
Mountains. 1 have found no mention
of Vin Farnsworth who was probably
from Kanab. This latter name seems
to have been carved in the rock later.
We learned that John D. Lee's name
was supposed to be present in the cave
but we did not find it. It may have
weathered away. After first viewing
Dellenbaugh's name, we saw it subsequently
on other trips there on May
11, 1946, and December 30, 1946.
Finally on June 19, 1947, we returned
once again to photograph the inscription.
Bearing on the authenticity of the
To JACOB LAKE & CAMERON
inscription, Mrs. Hamblin "recently
wrote me as follows:
"Jesse L. Nusbaum, director of archeological
research for the U. S. Park
Service in the Southwest, excavated
for the Heye Foundation one of the
caves on our property in 1920 and
1922. The site was of the Basket-
Maker Culture and he later wrote a
monograph titled A Basket-Maker
Cave in Kane County, Utah.
"More recently Mr. Nusbaum visited
our ranch and during his brief stay
here he told me that knowing Mr.
Dellenbaugh he often wondered if the
inscription he observed here was authentic.
Before Mr. Dellenbaugh's
death he obtained from him a verification
in writing that the inscription
was genuine."