Rejected Manuscripts

Bouncing echoes

"WANTED": Every available house, rooms, or apartments in Delta. Party of 34 wishes housing for six weeks."

WINGS AND BOUNCING ECHOES S00UT FOR OIL By Frank Beckwith nen cameDelta and immediately went to the atrport sHave you facilivios for our private plane Yes Hangar space 1n bad weathert Yes Can we mke headquarters here forveekan YesIn day or to their plane cme with their pilot The two men want out in flights daily forenoon and afternoon scouting rom the Desp Greck Range sastward into White Valley Tule Valley and made notes and marked maps of the terrain with discussion a5 to polnte of interest They interspersed plane fligats with auto tripe to the bjectives seen fromt he air Then 4n due time we were amazed to get for our newspaperclasedfied ad reading mch like this WANTED Every available house rooms or apartments in Delta Party of 34 wishes houdng for six weeke And folloving closelycaravmof motor vehtcles cme to town trucks passenger cars with md without trailers and one honey oftruck thet vas an eyeful---prastically all glass fancy gadgets in vith the prettiest 1ot of machinery applisnces 1t one ever saw It contatnodselsmograph recording mechanicn to t4ne bounsing schoss thrown back from below ground crew would out toa to me that the ground panted It was explainedD gl chargsdymantce anddouonate Likely spot prefabiydome the mechantem would time and record the bounce-back from the strata underneath with all its characteristics Some bounce-babks are greatly absorbed 1f penetrating our soft sedimentary deposits of the 1ake bed of former Lake Bonneville but if strata close that Digital image 2004 Beckwith Family Al rights reserved