The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-12

Nalo VIII oulld,n9 Monticello, Ill
noTynshsnd. It's proprietor. TO whom he
explained his need of money with which
! 20 biiN clothing appropriate TO walk the
. streets OF the western terminal OF the
stage route hs had chosen TO drive be-
Fownshcnd asked him how much he
! wanted and he replied that ii would re-
9ulre about $50 to supply his presen,
| demands. Tic proprietor went to the
safe and gave him the money. The APP
| preciative young stranger asked him IL
ne did not want his note as evidence
Of the appreciable obligation to which
his landlord replied: What In hell is
! the good OF a notc"'
In due season the young man repaid
| the obligation.
teresling career that lie was christened
by his friend and companion Flowers
| as Rush Ruben because OF the reCk-
less bravado he displayed in rushing his
string OF horses along the winding stage
road between Salt Lake and Echo. There
arc scores AND hundreds OF his good
friends now who greet him anectionately
as 'Rube' Dunn.
il was on one OF his trips cast Of
Echo with Flowers that his friend took
fancy 20 team OF black ponies he
| spied at Green River and remarked TO
Dunn that If he had the price. sl25, he
would buy them and send them in to
| Ben Halliday at New York for a pres,
%. snt This was ;3H! about ne time me .Sa, th9,
i
contract TO Halliday. who paid on AL
the Indebtedness financed the road and
put u on ? paying basis,
why don't YOU borrow the money
| from Bill Ashton, the tall gate keeper
at Green River" asked Dunn of Flowers,
10 which the latter replied. oh. Bill
is Mormon and wouldn't loan IT TO
| me-"
Dunn could not see the reason for it,
and rushed off down 10 the toll gate
and borrowed the Sl25 came back and
/ to l,TI
ponies and sent them on TO Mr Hal
! liday.
Long Years of Labor.
II was in April OF 1864 that Mr.. Dunn
| came 10 the Snake river valley, stopping
al Old Eagle Rock. two and half miles
north OF the present site OF Idaho Falls.
where he hired out as toll gate keeper
bridge Messrs, Richards, Massee and
| General Connor.
He remained in This employment until
the following August. when the bridge
was sold 10 Frank Lowe and - Nor
! gan (Mr. Dunn could not remember his
| first name). when he lett for the can
yon OF the Blackfoot river 10 construct
a ferry Of his Own over that stream at
p place twenty miles above here. where
the Lander trail crossed the Con
nor cutoff"
AS a matter OF history II may he SAID
Eagle Rock toll bridge 10 Matt Taylor.
who later. in 1855. disposed of half
interest in the bridge TO his brother-in-
member OF the firm OF Anderson BIoii-
ors J. c. his younger brother. being
the other member OF this firm,
In 1866 Mr.. Dunn. in partnership viii
Matt Taylor made a dugwey from this
| Rla ckfoot TOLL bridge constructed by Dunn
over around the hill TO the Portneuil
river west of Chesterfield and down to-
ward old Oneida, just below Mccain
| y,nS
Story of Lincoln Valley,
During the close OF this year Mr.. Dunn
located in Lincoln valley. so named IN
honor or Ace Lincoln by body OF
soldiers who spent the winter there,
over near the old For, ., tlsI! sShoo'' aoou'
In this valley at the early period lived
three families. Charles Iisham, beli
Miller and "Pealey Woods Here N
lsSs Of MI Mr. D"nd and Mas Mas mibssa liig%sm
In 1870 Mr.. Dunn moved over 10 Snake
| river locating some two and hal
miles above the present site OF thl ne
prospected the valley and located his
homestead over east five miles. consist
ing of 157 acres next 10 the foot hills ano
bordering on the stream the Blaclifoo
river He now owns In all 1Ilt acres o.
The rich soil Of the Snake river valley.
n was here in this homestead that hc
shoVeled out the ditch to convey the wat
used for irrigation purposes. While h'
was thus engaged his two associate
lneighborns pioneers, Burrell and stevens
rs ,,s iclnine him 10 make history b,
irrisating Mr imeIr respective farms nearb!
nf which more VIII be said in FUTURE
Mir, Dunn said today that the onl!
mon he now remembered az being II
ibat portion OF Snake river valley sur
rounding Blackfoot al that carly day Were
Fred stevens. John Garrett, Presto Bun
rcll. Joe Warren, Nels Just and Judg'
Shoemaker. ,
60 .,iI intact although forty wears nav,
passed by during which time 1t has con
rcyed it's iife-civing qualities 10 th
thirsiv desert now tceming win the boun
ties of plant llfe =,
TO-DAY Rush Ruben Dunn saddles M
horse and rides away TO his landed hold
inas five miles east of this grove city. ii
the enjoyment OF as perfect health a
any man who faces the approach or IN
.evouty-t1ird summer OF n rugged ljt
lived very close to nature.