The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-08
Notorious Rendezvous Is Now a
Milk Ranch.
DIVES ARE TORN DOWN
BLOoD-SPATTERED LOGS FOR
MINING TIMBERS.
Destruction of Buildings In Which
Many Murders Have Been Com
mitted--How the Indians Carried
on Patrick Gallagher's 81, 800 In
Gold-Recovered By Indian Police.
fspeoIaI Correspondencel

Price, Utah, Jan. eastern Utah
has at last gotten rid Of its greatest
plague spot and the people are happy
in consequence. The notorious strip, ="
a piece of land lying along the main
road from Price to Vernal. or at least
that portion Of it most familiar to
travellers, is 10 become a milk ranch.
Where the saloon and dance hall and
gambling and murder and fighting for
merly fiourishel the sturdy ranchman
is now to take up his home, and low
ing herds coyotes and wolves viii at
night take the place Of drunken lndi-
ans, tin-hOTn gamblers and Css peradoes
and soldiers from Fort D-cnesne, the
latter being stationed on the east SIDE
Of the strip" about a mile ana a half.
The logs that were used in the build
ings occupied as saloons. bawdy houses
and gambling dens have been sold 10
the st. Louis CIsonite company for
mining timbeIs and are now being
hauled from the scene with the blood
that is spatteIe ed over them, for of the
half dozen buildings theTeabOuts. each
one of item has seen one or more muir
ders. and no end of knife and fist
fighting.
The strip" as it is known. lies be
tween the two reservations, the Cintah
and UncOmpahgre, one and a half
miles to the east of Fort Duchesae, and
when the surveys We're made for the
two reservations was Intentionally or
otherwise left out Cf both, and later
became a kind of No Mans land 1t is
triangular in shape, three miles long
at its narrowest and six miles at the
widest point. On the ground which is
with water as fine agricultural land as
there is in Utah, is located vast depos-
its Of aspnaltum, from which all the
output of this part of the country at
present comes.
When the present Indian agent, II. p.
MytOn, took control he made up mis-
mind to drive out the whisky sellers,
who did their best business with the
Indians and sod eTs from the fort. They
were driven out and now the land upon
which the saloons stood has been taken
up as d ranch by Patrick Henry Gal
lagher, a well known character in that
country, who is being encouraged n
his enterprise by the agent and the
commander at Fort Duchesne. Gala
CHER is erecting new buildings and viii
take out iTrigating bitches. preparatory
to establishing a dairy to supply the
officers families and soldiers at the
is easily watered and now that a start
has been made it is expected others will
follow suit and in q short time all the
available land viii be taken up.
About the time Gallagher had gotten
fairly started he came near going into
voluntary bankruptcy through robbery.
He is something of a hermit and has
lived in that country for twelve or fif-
teen years. His savings when the dairy
proposition struck him amounted to
about 81 SEQ in gold, which he boarded
and kept buried in the dirt floor Of his
cabin. Some Of the bad Indians on the
reservation became possessed of this
knowledge and a few weeks ago while
Gallagher was away from home they
went to his cabin and dug up the gold
He reported the robbery to Agent My
ton, who put the Indian police on the
trail. and the result was the recovery
Of the mOney-every dollar of it. Gal
lagher reluctantly stood q reward Of
50 which the Indian agent gave one Of
the police for the trouble he went TO.
The people Of eastern Utah fell re-
lieved that the strip" as it was known,
is no more. The lawless element there
has directly and indirectly cost the
government much money and no end of
trouble to the soldiers and the various
Indian agents