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Show j FIRST MEETING IN IISNY YEARS I Old Comrades in Old Pony j Express v Service, Acci-v' Acci-v' dentally Meet Here After Long Separation.' George C. Chambers of Salt Lake, a - stableman for the old Pacific Pony Express Ex-press company, now passed three-score and ten, but still hale and hearty, met j a former confederate, a rider for the ' company, . whom he had not seen since the early days. ' William Strepper was S a rider through Promontory, where j Chambers waa for many years the only j man. to care for the change station. S ' "Chambers now lives in Salt Lake, ) - where his real estate holdings keep him i with the necessities of life, while Strep- per is a large land owner and fruit i raiser In Centerville. Both have lived k In Salt Lake valley for many years, ' yet one did not know, of the existence of thm- other. . The meetinsr in the office ? f the general passenjjer agent of the I Short lone railroad was most pathetic, i ' A great friendship sprang up be-tween be-tween the 'two boys that were, but 'i Jhich had not in the least diminished, :f png from their actions jwhen they ' f t in the office of the earliest railroad ! rough this section. Beminiscences X "owed thick and fast for many minutes about the experiences met after sarat-' sarat-' lnsr, what they had been doing, or doing now. - Some people talk about times as changing, but the following will show that Chambers ia not far behind the times. Strepper asked Chambers what made him look so young. George replied, re-plied, 'I just pay my debts and Btop worrying." There is a moral that will appeal to a great many citizens of Salt |