Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-25 | Page 10 | Camp Floyd Cemetery

CAMP FLOYD CEMETERY, Place Where Bones of Soldiers Rest More Like Corral Than Cemetery. Camp Floyd 'cemetery, which thr Government Gov-ernment requests may be deeded back to tho United States by the Stato of Utah, so that It may be properly cared for, is described by a gentleman who visited it two " iu's ago as more ilk" a stork ror- rai than a burying ground, it is located about four miles from the junction of the San Pedro road and its Mercur branch The nearest-habitation of any description Is In the little town of Fi'nrlield, between three and four miles .iway. Thirty or fort soldiers were burled In the ground. At one time all tho graves were marked, but now the wooden slabs have loiie.J away and the marble shafts have been overturned The mounds are overgrown with weeds and sagebrush and have become 0 bedding place for cattle Sad range horses. As the, cemetery Is close to the Run-shine Run-shine pip. -Hi,. . it would be a simple mutter mut-ter to secure unough water to irrigate the little graveyard and keeii It green. Trees will grow and flourish in thi soil it is a matter of . uttlc work and attention rattier than of money to make the sleeping sleep-ing place of the Nation s di fendi rs one of the most attractive spots In Utah.