The chronicle=news., 1913-04-12
Ren,iniscences of
The Frontier Days
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Originally the West was popuiai-
ed by young men and SOS carce were
| the old fellows that their ahsenr"
was all III" more marked. Ont In the
eastern part OF Nevada. however,
, the seems TO have been III. reverse
, for tho country was occupied hy the
lgray-benrds who had becn there ever
since the war. In fact they constitute
eh IA lhrg. scattering o! refugees
from Prices army In Missouri. when
I the Colorado regiment captured n
lot oi ih's" rebels they wnr" given
III. rhoic" OF going To tn. federal
tfockadc as prisoners of war or they
, could go s.Oi-fr"e ny striking ont
w.st 10 fight indians with til. str,ig-
Cling regulars woh were trying 10
held down things IN this be,iddl.i
country.
So many of them accepted this al
formative THAI they formed quite
colony and sO In the cours. nf time
II was natural enough that they
should settle down for the nseiy.. in
IN" beautiful grnss valleys OF Nevada
which WIS iust then gailopinr along
on III" great 'omsiock and Virginia
soiidatad boom. We fgncmbar a
i'W W 'h'H' blt ! ne " NICK uhtkE iS
they looked twenty Years ago. They
.v"r" big stout fellows as strong %,
Hn oN ana ns hrav. ~ ~ hob-cai, fuil
of life and prun"s and seemingly OF
n mold that placed them among tho
Lords ahnolu'"d. They Possessed
that oii-fashoinch southern hospital
i'N which cogpi"i with tn. proven
'inl cp"n s"sam" Of III" rowiy west
surely mad" great characters al
them
!,ranp"i enough all they" folks
lik" the Hatch brothers and old man
f.ichun In Utah wen, Into III.
here breeding biiSinoss aud tn.
sicods they produced w.r. the mar
wells al "puin!mit, 20 fine and spirit
cd We're ih.r. Their stock seemed
superior To tn. famous Oregon horses
for size aud stamina ana ". suppose
they ares iii that way. BRADLEY aud
Mason ran stag. line from Wells 10
Sacra n"nto over III. Truckc" before
tho first 'ransroniin"nInl railway
was hull, along their trail. Tom
s hort In the RUBY valley was on" OF
:h"s our 'ioughs Once when a prizes,
wanted to chrisi"n his baby Tom
said: You can 'hri~'.n the Kid II
IA turn YOU will allow me tn chris-
ton all oi yuuts. aud this settled
III. ycriinr's chance for baptism.
At Elc" WIS an old .iS-fooi"r pius
ihra. or four inches and Hike n blue
'N"d cat he was deaf as a post hu,
rlways knew the Indian sign when
u. came tim. to liquor. lust give me
q little OF thar Kniniucky wine" h.
rscd to shy and the barkecp did tho
onors by passing ont the right bot
Tie. Whom asked why II was that
,hcv Were such "a splendid ioi OF big
husky men H4r, Mason Of Dccth war
Y ont 30 remark: "Thcy's nothing in
IN" ciimaf. hut the stuiI We are
rad" or ana II looked that way for
fair. One old whalchone In the
Ruby valley rode horse forty-fiv"
iiles In less than thrcc hours to
catch n train for Salt Lake whcr, his
wife was dying In a hospital
The Griswold brothers had n fine
herd Of horses running on the range
south OF Arthur. Jim Scott bought
Tour h,indfed and my Of trhsc for
s2i.a u head with one hundred o.
fhcmt brown In for the rut-back At
sii apiece and they were n prcat
bargain. Men cnme from all orcrN
the Union To soc these animals and
'rhy wcr. glad 10 buy the crop. The
hroomtails ran on the desert south !
Cf .hc Ely valley but they have been
described before. 4. e. Cleveland
was the mos, famous breeder in that
country. lie packed In on foot from
California before the war broke ont
and did not belong to Prices brigade
Ills ranch lined with long rows OF
Iombardy poplars was the finest !
place between Salt Lake and the Pa |
r!fic. They made men and bred
horses in those balmy days.-Field |
;nd Farm.
Ocean Trout: II mus, have been
about 1874 when the mining bust
rcss contcred around Georgetown In |.
Clear Creek county that General !
John A Logan the father OF the |
Grand Army. came out from Illinois
20 spend the summer in the hills try
ing to find something worth while. |
lie bought an interest In the Dives ,
on Republican mountain and took a
rrea, deal OF money out of that great |
old silver mine. His companion in
camp was that rabid old war-dog |
Commodore Decatur. who knew more
about gun-boats than pay streaks
end the two got along pretty well
together although rs we now review
the annals of their mining exploits
t. seems too had that they should
have Travelled so far to get so little.
hut this is no worse probably than
the best of us got.
One day the commodore growleh
10 Howard Chaplin OF the Barton
house that it was a shame they could |
no, have trout for dinner up there