The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-13

of the population had assembled to
greet her, and most of them were ac
tually prepared to stay in that part OF
the canyon until school closed.
In settlement of a half dozen fam.
lilies spreading in single file through
nearly forty miles Of canyon it was nat
urally impossible TO locate the school
house within walking distance Of more
than single family. For this reason,
the families are brought TO the vicinity
Of the school for the winter The near.
est family, a few rods away. had a full
house of their own children. but the big
hearted mother crowded them into the
corners and made room behind cur
tain for the school maam
4 number OF Young chaps residing q
dozen miles or 50 up and down the can
yon were encamped for the winter un-
der the cliff rocks in tents. One trio
of brothers, Norl. Raw and Harold War.
rem, had n seven by nine foot tent fitted
out like Il plav house. only it was grim
| reality to each one OF them. SO near To
! their hearts wa. it that they staunchly
declined to have the tent interior photo
graphed
NorI. who was lust past II.
and who Miss Manchester stated was
one of Der brightest pupils for his are,
was in the seventh grade and was do.
ing good school work - This vounq
mountain -tnamSter.t .trapper VIZ:
also the "parent - or guardian (for the
winter of his two Younger brothers. lie
saw that they not only assisted with tho
housekeeping. but he kept them at their
studies when necessary He was re
sponsible for their appearance and
cleanliness. and atop of il all he va:
the cook and commissary. besides get
tino on with his own lessons,
| Their dinner tHDlp-Oup fhPy buIII
| themselves--was iust outside the tent
aud thcv assembled themselves ahnu'
it more orderly and respectfully thar
many boys in sure-enouqh civilization
But here again. their hearts Law too
near the dining table and it's meal they
had prepared TO have it desecrated Will
a camera. And much as T wanted tht
picture T really did moi blame them.
A Big Kindergartner.
Seventeen years old, and only in tn,
seventh grade, we eXclaim and yet tha
boy has already met problems and car
ried responsibilities, and had 2 tra nins
that hundreds of thousands OF city boy
Will never have though they finish higl
school at this boys present age, WheI
he is not conducting this dormtory
for his brothers and himself, and Incl
dentally getting his own schooling TO
hNe months III the year. he farms, cut
alfalfa with a moving machine. cut
oats with self-binder, hauls supple
ont and in from Price, forty miles
which is a 6veday trip with load, an
does many another chore that woul
make the 17-year-old city cha
sorry he ever noticed this lad az
parent dullness in his studies, fac
attributable solely to the short schoo
sessions.
Another dormitory' at this board
ing school in the mountains is in charg
of widowed mother, farmer at that
Mrs. Thompson IS ranch is about sixtee
miles up the canyon, and when she re
moves to her winter camp near tn
Harper school at the opening Of tn
school, she is compelled to take no
only a great deal of her househol
goods for the use of her three childre
and herself, but she brings her COW:
horses, pigs. chickens and ducks-a
her chores and all her work. And {
show that she is unselfsh she takes tw
little BOYS extra to live with her Thes
little fellows, Van and Ellsworth Coz
live thirty-seven miles down the cal
Won, near the Green river, among th
cliff dwellers houses and ruins and i
land Of predatory animals. Thes
bovs are in the first grade. though bot
are old enough to handle team
The total school enrolment last wiz
ter was nineteen. and Miss Mancheste
/, SAYS every one Of them did good work