That doesn’t come out very well in the files.
It was a very important, significant thing because that’s when we discovered the underwater craters (14). And that’s when the depth was established at 1,932 feet.
The old depth was listed 1,996.
There was a Lieutenant Williams with the Coast and Geodetic Survey who was in charge, and that was a big project. The Park Service boat was used all that summer by them. An interesting side-light was that they ran ashore on the reef on the west side of Wizard Island. That was a very embarrassing thing for them, but they got it fixed without any Park Service help. Then it was a matter of putting their results on the topographic map for park.
I know there was a map about that time produced in the USGS national park series with topographic on the one side, and Howel Williams explanation of geology on the other.
In fact, I had something to do with getting the contours on that, as I recall. I think when I was in Washington in 1962 I remember spending some time with the Geological Survey on that.
I might talk a little bit about some of the people that were there. Want to do that?
Sure.
Slim and Juanita Mayberry with their four children were there. Slim retired as superintendent of Arches and now they still live in Moab.
Barbara: They were instrumental in getting the ski tow for employees.
Garfield?
No, Sleepy Hollow. Got a little rope tow put up there.
Barbara: Slim had been a professional ski instructor and so they were able to get support to put up this little tow and they were the ones, Slim and his wife, Juanita, had charge of teaching the kids skiing in wintertime. Friday afternoons was ski time at school.
Francis Jacot eventually ended up at some time, as I recall, at Glacier Bay, where I had been, too. He was in the Washington office at one time. And then at the Western Regional Office.
