Rejected Manuscripts

Bouncing echoes

Flying over the Confusion Range with an oil scout.

Pl ploce cost 265 00 Then he gave me the treat of handing mesection of core which suchhead cuts The core taken at intervals 15 stutted am the findtnge carefully logged as it telle the foraations passed throughyad their characteristics -Some donthsterpicked up the Gedar Gity newspaper and Tead Such and such an oil company 1s drillingtest well near Rush Lake So far asknow no bouncing echoes were used in the preliminary work there-wings and grownd crews only Some land has been leased for oil rights in proxiuity to Delta and farther west small drilling owtfit rantest just north of the rantte Mountd ns butremembered the sjaculation sarlier of Donvant em and when that rig pulled quictly away thought it vas confisation of the setor scouts rejection 7After that scout had thoroughly flown over the Confusion Range he said Nav for older or pre-Mississippian material You take over told the pilot to cross ol Nos and go south above the Conger Range In Lese thanJiffy seeningly the scout said tot he pilot Therea very fine small anticline pitching down from far up the mountain to the plain Fly south behind the mountain to its end there and them cone dom to about k0O fet and go down that piteh holding the distance to 400 We passed over dandy fossil fields familiar me afoot and as we came the pleching anticline both scouts were glued to the windows murmurring approval aud as we swung around notes wers Jovted dawna nd charte marked we gained altitude the senior scout said Miherethe Or doviciantn South of King Canyon on new Highty No both ddes of the rato Grystal Peak We canmako it best by going south from here then turn Grystal Peak and go northeast Digital image 2004 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved