Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-09-29
TAINTED THE SPRING
HOW w-fs'lY CAP. Wy, GOT ITS
EECu-rER NAME.

Mountain stree. "a u as "a 'uumfna an
of Youth BIsp-llyd q, the True san
- of the BIcnd.aE Process.
One Of the historic places IL TIE west
is WHISKY Gav. NY. The uld ;Im.
jewellers Il mountain and pain .tlr
MyG W,.p fought Indians anil hlG'rl
bufal" rgt west during the OVERLAND
train days of The early sixties have
shrugged their Shout !crS N rEc u.au-
ton Il Whisky cap Tor nearly 80
years. This is the place. according 20
their belief, where rra! -urrwatr."
gushcl out Il the rocks iu "a beautiful
mountain spring ru qg-uyA Tie thirst
Of whole company yt lucI" Sans
trained Indian lighters. 1t was moth
ing hUt pure Sprin. water, they say.
n vcrirahlc fountain Of youth"
Colonel G. G. Cou,ant. the author OF:
a history of Wyoming ami tie pioneer
days oL.tlc west, Las learned tire true
story Of Whisky Gap To be somewhat
different from the fountain of youth
fable. According tu historical record
Of the early days along the govern
ment overland trail, Whisky Gap re-
ceivcd its name in ISL during tho
building Of the overland stage route
from Denver to Salt Lake City ami
the Pacific coast.
Tho people of Dguyer had long been
working to secure the regular overland
stage route. then connecting the east
and the west. In 1850 Ben Holiday,
veteran stage man, became proprie-
tor of the great overland line. and he
agreed upon a route running through
Denver TO the west. He decided to dis
continue that part Of the read running
up the North Platte and the Swy,twa-
ter rivers and across South Pass. Wy
The many Indian difficulties expert
enced on this route were the induce
mcnts to abandon it.
The new trail led by way Of Jules
burg. Colo. TO Denver and on over the
established wagon road To Fort Lup-
ton. and north across Laramie plains,
then due west through Bridge Pass,
Wy, joining the old trail leading
across the country to the Pacific coast.
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