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Show I Henry I Paosi Is No lore. Heart Disease Caused His Death at Los An-JIo An-JIo Carried Mail, Pought Indians, Built First Livery Stablo and Made First Brick in Utah. LOS ANGBDTI3, Dec 10. H. J. Faust, supposed to bo a prominent resident resi-dent of Suit Lake City, was found dead in his bed at the Clifton house, North MB Broadway and Temple street, tnis HI morning, from heart disease. Fausrt ur- mfJl rived at the hotel two days ago. Let- jyjftl tcrs found in his pockets Indicated that , am he was prominent in Irrigation enter- . 'MB prises and It is thought that ho may mHb have been a delegate to the recent Ir- DH rlgatlon congress in El Paso. HH Henry J. Faust literally "broke trail" vUM for thousands wlio came after him and HH his fellows to settle the Rocky moun- MM tain "West. He carried mall across al- 9Hl kail plains and mountain ranges from jH Utah to the Pacific; ho fought Indians; Hfl ho wandered alone, lost, In the Great HH Salt Lako desert; he discovered the first ledge where marble is now being HH quarried at Deep creek; he made the HH first brick In Utah; built the first llv- HH ery stable in the Territory; imported HH first blooded live stock and helped HB build two of the trans-continental rall- IflH way lines. He was a pioneer In the HM truest sense o the word, and men live HH today throughout Utah who recall his HD name with tbo respect born from brave MM Got tbo Gold Fevor. HH Ho was born In 6ermany, June IS, H 1S31. His parents came to America HH when he was a little boy. While still HH ln 11 ls lccns 110 cot the gold fever and HjH crossed the continent ln '-10 to Califor- IHS nla. There he worked at saddlery, a HH business he had learned in the East. nHJ But he grew restless again and started HH back home. At Fillmore ho met the Hfl woman who became his wife. She was Hi on0 oi Uio Mormon settlers in that HA place. Young Faust forgot his home- HH plckness then. He was easily persuaded HUH to 8tay m Fillmore. Soon afterward HVJ 110 Joined the Church of Jesus Christ of HH Latter-day Saints. His wedding fol- HM Faust and his brido came to Salt Lake WW City. Here Brlgham Young came to HH know him. The president of tho church HUB saw promise in this man, and he "tried HH him out" after a fashion few would mBM fancy. He sent him an a mail carrier HJH between Salt Lake City and Los An- wUm geles. In Utah today you can find men HH Avno kneu Henry Faust then. They aro HH grey-haired men, but their cheeks still HH. show the deep bronze that wind and IflfflHr weather gave them. These men say ho BUM did not know the meaning of fear. HH ' Work for the Brave. HH A man had to be brave to carry tho HH mall over that trail. It went straight HH ucross deserts, where the white alkali HH dust lay like ashe9 beneath a burning HH smn, from water-hole to water-hole HH stretched mllo after mile of weary rid- HH lnB" 11 wound up between the frown- HH inS walls of deep canyons, higher and HH higher until it reached the summit of HH one ran&c onlv io' Plunge Into a valley HJH whence outlet must be found by a de- uHl ' file steeper than the Inst- Indians ln- H fested thfy trail. The mail carrier was HH always a prey worth their hunting. Be- BJH fore Faust took the route several riders RH had been killed by bullets or slow tor- H turc. He himself had many halr- RH breadth escapes. HUH , "When ho left tho mall it was to take BH ' a station on the pony express in Bush IIH valley. Previous to doing this he had H bought horses for Capt. Egan, who HH handled the route. This new station H offered nearly as many perils as tho fflH mail service, and Mrs, Faust shared IIH these dangers with her husband. Once OJM tne family was saved from massacre VH at the hands of a band of savages only HH by the friendship of an old chief who BH knew FausL H First Livory Stable. MH From this station Faust and his fam- ujK lly camo to Salt Lake City. Here he HH built the first livery trtable ln the Ter- HJH ritory. This stood on Second South HH street, between where tho "Wlleon and JBH Kenyon hotels arc now. It was a stone WBH building and cost $18,000. Later he MWl started the fitst race track ln Utah ffiHJll near where Fisher's brewery now HUH stands. Old-timers remember the pcr- HH formances ot Mormon Chief, Walker's HfflWJ Honest John and other trotters" on this HhJ track. It was at this time that Faust fflJHB began importing blooded stock, some- WW thing ho continued ln after years. His Hi efforts had a marked effect ln the fflJH broeding here. He built the first HH slaughter-house ln Salt Lake City In HH North Salt Lake. He was tho first con- HH tributor to the De.eret Agricultural and HJHJK Manufacturing society. HH Made Him Bishop. HH When the panic of '73 came he lost HJH his rcaI estate, all save a ranch ln jHJH Bush valley. He traded this for horses MM and went with these to Corinne, where MM! he established a stock ranclu Brigham UHK Young made him bishop oP-Corinno. HH This was the last ecclesiastical appolnt- HJH ment made by the president of the Mdr- HJH mon church ln his lifetime. The letter HKffl he wrote to FauBt soon after this was IflBffl his last epistle.. Tho two had been closo HB , Before this time Faust had carried hVH out a construction contract on the MH Union Pacific. Later he built a part IHJI of the Oregon Short Line botween HHJ Granger and Pocat'ello. At Corinne he Hn made tho first brick burned in Utah. HH Some of the buildings made from these HH 13 rick still stand. HH Discovery of Mnrblo. HH A curious thing had occurred to this HUB man during his earlier days, and this helped to enlarge hl income as old age , fll came on. When carrying the overland ;l mail he once was lost on the Great Salt '5 Lako'de8crt Ho rodo three days, both h and hifl horoo almost mad with i thirst. Finally he horso raised his head and pricked up his cara Faust knew the animal had smelt water, and gave him rein. He went to a spring. As they approached tho ridor noticed a white rock. After ho hnd slaked his thirst ho examined this. It was marble. Yeara afterward ho went back to tho Bpot and located tho ledge whence tho boulder had been carried. This lay at Deep creek, and here, during tho last ten years, moBt of Mr. Faust's Interests Inter-ests havo been centered. One of hlo sons lives at tho quarries there. Three weeko ago Mr. Faust went to tho National Irrigation congress at El Pao, Tex. He Journeyed thenco into Mexico and then went to Los Angeles, Cal. Henry J. Faust, Jr., received a letter a week ago from tho City of Mexico. The first news ho had of hlo father's arrival at Lob Angeles was ln a telegram yesterday announcing hl3 death there. Leaves Four Children.' Surviving Henry J. Faust aro four children: James A. Faust of Deep Creek; Henry J. Faust, Jr., president of the Faust Creamery company of Salt Lake; Elsie Ada Faust, who io studying study-ing medicine ln San Franciscd, and Mrs. George Tnysum, nee Grace Faust, of this city. The funeral will bo held In this city, but arrangements aro not yet completed. |
