The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-21
UP LITTLE SMOKY.
A PerVerse Pack HorSe-A Bear
Spared.
Moralizings by Il.
HALEY. september Z, 1882.

4 Editors Herald
] Should there ever be an honor.
able society Of trail makers inau.
gerated, your correspondent has GER
1 tain accidental claims he would
submit for consideration as EMIT
ling to membership. These claims
are embodied IN "a trip from Vienna
to the head of Little Smoky. About
three weeks ago Mr.. Ed. Finney, d
prominent livery man Of Vienna,
being about to make this trip, and
wishing to impart an e.ement.of
responsibility to the expedition,
proposed to your correspondent 10
accompany him, mentioning as an
inducement that the salmon being
in season, we should probably see
plenty of bears. He stated the dis
tance was between twenty and
thirty miles. l discovered after
we were under way that he had
never been over this route, but had
come in by the way of HALEY last
year, when he was lost for three
days.
Our directions were to go down
Big Smoky to the mouth Of Little
Smoky, and to follow it up. These
seemed definite enough, but neither
of us knew which Of the many
branches was Little Smoky, and
after trying several that we had to
abandon, took the wrong one.
1t would be tedious TO tell the
number Of game trails we followed.
until we naturally avoided them,
land the divides We Gro: sed. Sufficient
that we were seven days Iii making
distance Of thirty miles, and that
most Of the time, although we knew
we were in Idaho somewhere, were
in a manner lost. Our outfit con-
sisted Of three horses, provisions, d
Ballard rifle and revolver. Every
thing seemed unprOpitiOuS for the
trip; the country was on fire, and
the third day ont Nh. Finney met
with an accident. He had Wrenched
his foot some days before and
through some awkwardness on his
part the colt be was leading trod on
this member and stood there
seemingly undecided which way to
move. This no doubt was very
painful but could not possibly
justify the extreme expressions in
dulged in which included the hrrSe
and foot and country and the man
who struck it.
| seized the opportunity in the
interest of morality to administer
sharp reprOOf ard to recommend the
exercise of that patient fortiIude
which distinguished Livingstone in
his explorations, and am panied to
record theses efforts were not re-
.ceived in the proper spirit; just the
lreverse. Finney became more
violent in his ObjuTgatlons, threat
ened to shoot the colt and
even went so far as to intimate
that if [ did not dry up he would
take a shot at me. knowing the re-
morse sure to follow such Easty pro-
ceedingS / deemed it polite to re-
serve my labors. Our pack animal
was continually getting into trouble
through a disposition to make short
cuts. A little learning is a danger
Gus thing, and this horses rudimen-
tary knowledge of geometry came
near proving fatal in one instance.
In making one of these cuts-Off he
encountered a porphyry dyke he
could not possibly get over. He
turned square up the hill and slipped.
He was hardy beast and made a
lSupereQuine effort to regain his
| footing, but it was no use: the pack
turned and away he went.
[ have seen the rich merchant
stand surrounded by his weeping
family, while the fiery element
swept away the accumulatioHS of
years, the sum Of ten thousand per-
SuasiOns and as many presentations
and he made no sign, eYinced no
emotion. He was probably insured.
| thought Of this as I watched the
net results of a life of hardshipS,
except an album and few articles
of no monetary value, go end over
end through the perverSity of this
beast to certain damage, and more
than probable destruction. He
went endwise first, and then side
wise, and then over and over, Ind
by the merest luck brought up
/ against a iutting rock, where he lay
trembling and groaning, and utterly
Inundated. We cut the pack loose
and got him up: the -four was now
self rising, tke sugar and coffee in
separately united.
One evening we noticed, under
the shadow of a giant fir, the high
mound of q grave; some poor pros
pector who had found sleep. 1t
seemed a dreary place to be buried
IN; no tears would water the Sod
above him, none but the hardest
variety Of flowers could spring from
it. The incription read: "Here lies
the body of Patsy Marley; killed
by a bear, June 4, 1881; age IN
| known: an old Salt Laker." Ia
youth we are tau hit TO speak
kindly OF the dead, perhaps from an
old superstition that they have power
for evil; or more likely, as moder-
ately high authority has it, the last
act being in most cases so much the
best, it partially Tedeems the others.
Poor Patsy l knew him well-by
sight-his mere lineaments that,
once seen, are hard to forget. l had
: cna71 him in Hba o7.opo of4o1. fbn aT-