Show SALT LAKE SKETCHES ES Game QUine Once Plentiful in SL Ducks U Used ed to Be Thick on Sloughs West of City Pioneer Recalls Ducks pucks and jackrabbits were so thick hick that not a single step could be beaken betaken taken aken on the old black blackslough slough west of f Salt Lake City in pioneer days John ohn E R Lambourne 2794 Eleventh East street recalls Emigrating with his family from the he Missouri vall valley y in 1866 when he was only 2 years years' old this man who knows his birds has since lived in Salt Lake county Until two years ago he resided at Fourth avenue Indians often visited his home begging beg g. g ging for food Seldom did they become become become be be- come hostile Mr Mi- Lambourne sai said unless they were iso so hungry you couldn't talk em cm out of being ugly The he old city wall erected along fourth avenue avenue to keep back Indians bordered the Lambourne home The Indians were usually very frIendly he said Often I have wrestled with Indian boys DaYs and hupt- hupt ed deer with them Outstanding in Mr Lambourne's sto store of Pioneer f pio arc his hunting and fishing experience Streams in all the surrounding canyons were fun full of at native trout he said Bent 1 pins ins were used for tor tackle and never did lid fishermen return without all they could carr carry Mr Lambourne recalled Hunting was especially good out outon outon outon on the old black slough west of the city Ducks were so thick we couldn't step without frightening them Our shot were made home-made from le lead d or scrap scrap iron packed against powder and held into place by pieces of at cardboard cardboard card card- board paper or anything else we could find around home Manufactured Manufactured ammunition cost too much The extremely h hard rd econ economic times and shortage of money were made more evident by Mr Lambourne's explanation explanation explanation ex ex- ex- ex of how produce was used for tor admissions to dances and other entertainments We had no money for school The fee was 25 cents per week providIng providing provid provid- ing we could furnish o our r own books but we paid our way through with made home soap packages of te tea or produce Salt Lake valley may have been beena a sagebrush-covered sagebrush desert when the first party partS of Mormon pioneers came but but Mr Lambourne's recollection ol of early days is of at miles upon miles of sego lilies sweet peas slippery elm elmand elmand elmand and hundreds of varieties of other otherl wild flowers blanketing the east bench x Later years have gone fast for Mr Lambourne but have been kind to him Although almost 72 years old he looks barely more than 40 His employment has been varied as juvenile juvenile juvenile ju ju- venile court officer Utah Light and Traction and Liberty park attendant He boasts of being the conductor on the first street car into Fort Douglas and was on the runs when horse-drawn horse cars were replaced replaced re re- re placed by electric ones He was incensed incensed in in- censed when the local Old Folks' Folks club sent him a membership badge I didn't accept the badge because if f I ever went to their doings they I probably bly would have me tend to the theold theold theold old folks |