The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-25
CHARTER WALKS
TO WIN FARM
Makes Trip of More Than 400 Miles
to File on Land.
SCORNS OFFER OF HORSE
IN TOO GREAT HURRY TO BOTH.
Err WITH sTEED.

Salt Lake men who have just re-
turned from AR overland trip to the
Untah reservation declare Arthur W
Charter OF Sandy. secretary of the
smeltermen's union, the champion
long-distanee pedestrian of Utah and
cite a recent arenarka bic record of his
as proof of the claim. They .solemnly
aver that Charter, bearing a load of
not less than forty pounds, left Sandy
on Sept. 5 and returned Sept~2l, after
having walked more than 400 miles His
average for the trip was IN excess of
twenty-five miles per day and he didn't
hurry himself at that
Load of Forty Pounds.
Now. I'll tell you what this man
did. said one of the Salt Lakers last
nisht. He drew No. 1.72S at Provo and
had to make his filing at Vernal on
Sept. II. He is a young and husky fell
low and figured il out that he would
save money and have a good expert
ence by just hoofing it over there from
Heller So he tucked SO in his pocket,
made up pack consisting of an axe,
] two blankets, a coffee pot and some
provisions, and started. He took the
train 10 Heber. From Heber he set
out alone and or foot and walked
down CuTant creek, looking over the
country as he went. From there he
walked to Red creek and from Red
creek hit straight out across twenty
two miles OF desert. where there isn't
a sign of water. He made the new
town of Duchesne on the other side
without turning a hair. Then he visit
ed the Blue Bench country, examined
the country on both sides of the river
moved on to the Dry Guich country.
east of Lake Fork, then moved on to
Myton and to Leland
Files on Good Site.
/ at Leland he saw d piece Of land that
/ looked good 10 him and decided to To-
cate it. ! believe ne got one of the best
farms on the whole reservation. He
! deserves the best one, anyhow. From
! Leland he walked to Fort Duchesne,
and from there to Vernal where he ar
rived in time to make his filing.
! Then he concluded to hunt up a job
/ in the neighbOrhood somewhere. and
/ tripped merrily over TO White Rocks,
/ where he heard there might be work
on a canal There was no work, so he
walked to Fort Duchesne. At Fort Du-
chesne he heard much of the Silsonlte
mines and concluded to crafty his Curl
/ osity by walking out 10 them. He had
lheard, incidentally, that there might
be work there. He lay over one day
There on a conditional promise of work,
4 but didn't get it.
/ He wasn't a bit annoyed He simply
picked Up his pack and chased over to
/ Leland 10 be sure that his farm was
still in place. 1t was. He met there a
number of men who told him he would
never be able 10 get water on his land.
/ Charter at once converted himself into
I a surveying instrument. He lay fiat
/ on the ground at the highest point on
/ his farm and looked up the Uintah.
/ From where he lay he could see the
/ bed of the river far above him. That
satisfied him that his place was not too
hign, so he told the audience that he
/ was not worried and started off again.
outfoots Fast Team.
/ He now concluded to drop in on
/ the folks at Myton 1t was about this
/ time that we ran foul of him. We
! had left Fort Duchesne Sunday morn
! ing ands had what we figured for d
/ fast team. He left Fort Duchesne Sun
J day noon. We were in camp at what
/ they call Starvation. on the headWa-
/ teTs of the strawberry, Monday night
/ when he caught us. Did you hear that?
I / tell you he caught no with us, tt
/ was dark when he bnew in. We heard
I him Whistling as he came and stopped
him. He supped with us and stayed in
our camp that night.
I'VE left ahead of him and made Cur
rant creek for the next camp. He
I passed us somewhere again. He must
have made race horse time across that
/ red desert He had a lift of four miles
/ on this day, the only riding he did on
the whole trip. We passed him next
day, while he was lying asleep in the
bush, as he informed us. We had just
finished supper i'm our camp at the
head of Daniels canyon when We heard
that cheerful whistle behind us again
and pretty soon Charter racked into
camp. He said il was a pleasant night
and he believed he would take a stroll.
With that he blew away In the dark
ness. We offered him a ride. but he
said that would load US down. He did
agree TO let us haul his pack for him.
Delay by overseeping.
L don't know where he put up that
night All I know is that he left camp
about Z O'Clock in the morning and,
with down hill road, made it to Heber
! in about four hours. This time we ran
him down, but he made twenty miles
| from the last camp before we caught
him He apologized by saying he had
! oversight a thing he seldom done
| He got back home that night, all
right
''Well that man is the limit He
stiii had money when we last saw him
wore the same shoes he started with
I and sWOre he had been having the time
! of his life I'll go broke that he can
run to death any two horses in the
state OF Utah. You'd think he would be
tired and footsore, but he was full of
| steam and music all the time.
Horse Too Slow for Him.
There is Ute Indian out there
| who tells a hard story on him. The
Indian saws he suddenly ran on to
| Charter on the road between Vernal
and White Rocks The sDectacle of a
| white man. bearing a large pack and
/ walking about five miles an hour
/ alone i'm the wilderness scared the In
dian and the Indians cayuse about to
/ death When the Indian had quoted
/ the pony he reviled Charter. Heap
/ long heavy walk. hey Mike?' said the
/ Indian. Charter told him to get off the
/ road and Quit ohstTuctipg traffic. Then
4 the Indian tried to sell the pony TO
! Charter but Charter explained that he
I didn't want a horse because he was in
I q hurry and waved the Indian aside
/ HE Is the most indeDendent fellow
/ 7 ever met la my life. lie looks TO be
/ about - or % wears did and is
{ strongly built man. 7 predict right here