The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-16

ure. He had been i'll for the past few
months Stricken down early last win
ter with an attack of bronchitis, and
from this he only partially recovered,
and for several months he had been
confined TO his home, able to walk
around, however, but not strong enough
TO go Tar from home.
Monday morning he was up at his
usual time and sat in his accustomed
place on the porch of his home and
read the papers. A few minutes before
8 o'clock no walked to his room and
lay down upon his bed. his wife fixing
him comfortable, and then passed from
the room out into the yard A mo-
with the family, heard faint moan in
Mr.. Hardness s room, and gong in
found Mr.. Harkness dying. He called
to Mrs Harkness, but before she could
get TO the room he was dead,
Pioneer of Salt Lake.
Martin Harkness was a pioneer OF
the Salt Lake valley. He came to Utah
sixty-one years ago when he was boy
IS years Of age, With an older brother
he made the long journey across this
plains. Born in Pelham, Mass. Novem-
Der 10, 1881. Educated at Amherst, hs
LEFT his home town III October, 1913. at
the age of II years, and went to Chi
cago. The inland metropolis then
A year later. in 1S49, stories of the
find of yellow metal on the Rio Sacra-
mento and its tributaries in California
reached the east. Mr.. Hardness and
his elder brother caught the gold fever.
The Mississippi river was the dividing
line between civilization and the wild
west. From the river to the westward
frp fn Nd fhn,a -rrnI6
Martin Hardness and his brother de-
cided to brave the trip across this
waste rather than the long voyage by
sea around the horn. Sixty days after
the departure from st. Joseph. Mo,
then the outfitting point, Salt Lake
City was reached. The trail was fol-
lowed via Fort Kearney, thence up the
South Platte river to its junction with
the North Platte, near which is now
North Platte, Neb,; thence up the
North Platte river to the Sweetwater
to near its fountain head at South Pass,
then to Fort Bridger and then to Salt
Lake.
Was Forty-Niner.
After rest of few days the jour
ney to California was resumed, This
took Mr.. Hardness over the old Fort
river to Goose lake, thence to Lassen
ranch on the Sacramento river and the
old Lassen trail Sixty-one days after
leaving Zion the mecca wns reached,
but the riches did not come. For TWEEN
ty years Martin Harkness prospected
and mined in the mining region of cen
trail and northern California. Then he
removed to Esmeralda county, New,
where he remained for nine wears
Then year was spent in the Puget
Sound country.
In 1870 Mr.. IIarkness returned to
Salt Lake and here he has resided since.
He was one Of the pioneer miners in
Little Cottonwood and WAS the original
locator Of the Frederick and Crown
Prince mines. He disposed of his in
tcrests TO Pittsburg capitalists and af
forwards directed the driving for them
of a 300O.foot tunnel He loved the
mining game and up until the last few
years he followed the lure of the game
Won Badge of Argonaut.
Hc was the only man living in Utah
who was entitled TO wear tho distinctive
badge OF the Argonauts, the golden
bear, which denoted member of tho
pioneers of California. and his death
marks another vacancy in the handful
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