Show MARYSVALE I 1 its attractions Resource sand early history BY BYJ J P F eipps PART VIL VII when the writer and hla his brother inlaw in law james A wellar melville tile in january 1879 reached the summit of tho the divide we looked out oha ona deep gray gra y orth north n south vista six miles distant dista lifto to the southwest south west along the west side of tho the narrow nabow valley the deeply gashed escarpment of the sevier fault rose to a li height bight ot at more than 2000 feet at the old very base basa of which the dumps of the deer trail mine wore were distinctly visible at a point some so in a ton ten miles distant dista fit from tho the brow of bf the escarpment the tha massive tushar range extends brick to the barren barran divido divide marked by peaks which rise into tho the zone zona of perpetual snow F from rom the writers loni long and intimate acquaintance with the mountain ranges ot of utah he knew what beautiful miniature valleys parks lakes and streams were concealed beneath that thin mantle of snow in ili the heart of that almost peerless uplift and which during the summer months would be very gems of scenic beauty so tar far as the writer was concerned it was a case ot of love at first sight and that love almost worship of tile the giant tushar has deepened and intensified with the swiftly passing years the object t of exir our dlatt waitto wag to determine the wisdom or iun of transferring from fillmore to marys vale our modest but prosperous bustness business of merchandising excepting three or tour tr ra anches liches the number of shacks that comprised the village of mary Marys marysvale aval vale could be counted on one hand and they were scattered over several quarter s close to the bridge just over tab river from the a bre present sent D R G ry hy station was a tog log shack of three frooms owned by an israelite named dusterberg he was a d cast out fro from his jewish brethren with bis small stock of groce groceries ribs and provisions he ran a booze department but is nothing air significant ant in ili that fact and the other fact that wo camped at Duster bergs griat night it was yet birly ea aly in the afternoon and be fore going on to the deer trail mine our objective point we wanted to get our beail bearings after caring tor for our team we strolled into dogbe Duster bergs r q 8 dive while chatting wit the he proprietor p an amusing and almost al oat tragic wald require an explanation ol of Incidents denta which led up to tha unpleasantness some pome two or three thre eyears years before duseberg had married a sanpete girl doiy fifteen years of at age for reasons foot necessary to state the girl wife obtained a divorce id and went to park city where she married a pretty decent miner Duster dusterberg berj was anxious to start a lunch imich and the thought occurred to him th abat his former alip wife would make a good cook and her husband could beio teio bar and do the chores Dust erbe a over colored ol 01 description of at marysvale Marys vale as a future great mining camp induced billie Bl llie and duster bergs former wife to come to marys vale DU dusty sty as he was locally known was very proud of his former fine looking wife and frequently introduced trod trad thusly Chent lemen leipen dis d a es my dot iss her ll 11 husband osband pointing painting t to billie Bl llie billie vad had frequently told dusty to cut out but that form ot of introduction a fe few minutes after our entrance a member of the walker shiker Broth brothers eTS company of salt lake Lako city and hla his party parts who were vere resuming from the henry mountain mining excitement entered the dive and ana called tor for drinks diffie billie was behind theban and in the acton act of putting a botsfo bettia on the bar when dusty spoke to walkers party cheatle men diss limmy iss my vite and dot iss her husband billie reached over the bar and within w t the fraction of ft t second secand dusty was staggering around ak aund the room blood and whisky ng down his face from an ugly wound on top of his head As soon as he could catch his breath dusty fairly screamed scein gott paille dof vas the pest vl ey such was our in reduction to marysvale Marys vale and dying many years selars thereafter the changing charil ng little camp was one of the wildest and woodiest woo liest places on earth yi the deer trail had be bean on a attadi steady shipper for more than a year and its surface ore was practically exhausted conditions didiot did not appeal to the less sentimental and aad more practical melville but I 1 looked up the giant escarpment carp ment and was impressed with the fact bytho although gh but a novice in geology that the great deer trail contact must continue a on under the mountain and chat was sum clent tent for or my innocence nce abroad a road understanding I 1 then en and therb resolved to cast castaw ray future with Mel melville villo and I 1 were warm friends and reluctantly he hb yielded to ariy riy my di ciston could 1 I 1 1 have loodea looked into the future could 1 1 have lived tn in imagination the dreary drha of tho the slow passing years the torture of triin mind when bankruptcy bankrupt cj came ra methe the irve jacking struggle and final defeat I 1 would have returned to good old aid Fint noro and remained ther their c I 1 this is not netah an autobiography but it vall I 1 be difficult to picture piet u tho the life of awse so eany ealy years without will 0 t intruding laore or oi less ofa my own personal k V p N 4 jy in the following fal lowing march wo we wera th the 6 calel and the chocker 6 xi lito life in aro an embryo min u camp began 71 I 1 ith pictures es 0 some ril without hose pioneers n of di werft ft 91 alot ol 01 61 real men roost most of whom could claim descent from tho the revolutionary fathers fathera Tho The small colon colony iWas atvas in continual danger bange r from ma bands ot of india indiana whose abiding places woke were in the rugged and almost unexplored wilds west and north odthe colorado river in ill southeastern south eastern utah nearly every man carried one or two guns and it was necessary james A stark among our earliest acquaintances was waa james A stark then probate judge of pluto county judge stark was wads about 6 5 teet 10 inches in stature and a fine spec specimen of the verile pioneering manhood so plentiful in those early days erect bract in his li bearing ar his keen heon grey blue eyes never wavered he always looked his fel lowman low man squarely in the oyes eyes ever conscious of his own manhood manh bod the following brief notice Is clipped from the marysvale Marys vale red book he was descended from revolutionary stock was born la in biscon wiscon wisconsin shi may alay 3 1843 and died in marysvale Marys vale valo april 7 1901 judge stark came to marys vale by IV way ay of S south pass wyoming where ho he remained a short time and engaged in mining and arrived in bullion canyon in 1872 where he again spent a few years in ill an effort to wring al a fortune from the everlasting hills the times were too slow and he turned to cattle raising in which lie he was successful judge starks introduction to the singular habits of the pestiferous mountain rats is somewhat amusing tho the miserly mountain rat will steal from a miners cabin everything but a i stove carry it to his cozy habitation and store it for a rainy day falth pebbles bles cactus pine needles and chips from the woodpile all look allice alike and possibly smell alike to tb mr rit rat the odor that emanates from an anark angry skunk is ottar attar of roses c compared to the awful not loud but deep seated smell that continuously exudes from the domicile of the mountain rat in those thase days dabs a large slab of tob acco cost the mhd helpless consumer close to 5 judge stark so edred cured a hot of a popular ch owing chewing brand after a few weeks lie he noticed th that at hi bis tobacco waa wa too tob disappearing As the thefts continued be became suspicious that his cabin mate was wiping the tobacco and ajo possibly sibly peddling it to the prospectors prospect ois org one day judge stark dropped a coin down the wide cracks of tho the cabin floor he flo pried up tho the board recovered recover od the coin then looked und under erthe the floor in ono one of the corners corner 3 nicely arranged in an orderly heap was waa about half a boot 1 tho the stolen tobacco tobi cco the rat 11 bad a d not acquired tile tho mans mams ma ns habit but scorned to have nn an idea that some time it might como in handy F fortunately or tuna tely for tho the tobacco fauline camino stricken prospectors the precious wood weed was rat odor odorless lees |