Show n people and incidents I 1 4 by frank M young I 1 ve been feeling lonesome like these days things aie changing even in vernal it kind of makes a fellow think the biggest crowd to la er yonder I 1 can sit down and close cloge my eyes and look the valley over in my rumination and the good old days come back to me we had a few clumps of trees scattered here and there fro from the file hogs back where the old load came over wo we could nee bee uncle jakes trees that was vol nal tom caldwelle Cal dwells and carters trees marked the boundary of emerillis Me men rillis ills waid glines clump clunis was glines ward then Merk Mer leys kleya and hackings 11 and a few other sitt lers were the land maiks we had a great political or sept sectional ional fight before we succeeded in moving the cobit house or county seat beat from old ashley to vernal but the dench bench fellows won out there were many mofid sol id nien men aho vho helped to kill the snakes and ground dogs and watch the indians uncle jerry hatch isaac dark clark william ashton joseph black jake workman dr hullinger dick veltman nathan davis pete dillman S R bennion blythe and mitchell browne and erekson T kempton jos JOB booie and sonie some others they settled bottled way out hue on the bench beach and when the coop co op antoio was started and the blythe mitchell Allt chOl store was doing such a business that the old log loom had bad to be enlarged people began to think vernal had come to stay jim shelmerdine would drive into town with his team of blacks and we all had time to congregate on the vacant lot where johnsons coiner is there were plenty of vacant lots though it was a mighty dull day when we ne get up a pulling match and I 1 tell you the old freight teams could get down and dig foi dear life some times a tenderfoot tender stender foot was induced to pull his team against some old one hoise against the team all hands aboard wheels heels locked and cross locked and then for fun I 1 will own up tip it must have been on the boises but we ne just foi got to go home to do the hores then we had home of the greatest race hot boises ses in america least a wise we thought so BO and good enough why ne nearly worked up a feud between tom caldwelle Cal dwells faction and jim chadwicks chadwicke Chad wicks bowd ilay hay hauling had bad to wait when a race was on be toen these men then ren kon hatch and charley crouse anere ere always racing the valley was a dry and decary place but chops of cheat heat and oats took the place of shad scale and sage mote moie people came sheep crowded the cattle off the range nal became quite a town head quarters foi cattle men and sheep men wei e at brownes Bi ownes and the antler run by erekson Ilen henroid rold the grim reaper has claimed many of the old gimels curg and uncle alt alf johnson uncle jerry isaac dark clark father glines and grandpa merkley charley rich kich attorney and wit dennis winn alonzo perry uncle jake workman judge ashton judge burton nathan danig dah T tan tri kempton joe moore jim shelmerdine dave woodruff frank moore jim chad ick joe luxon W P coltharp geo goodrich Goodr blythe and bidd mitchell jim mease T faylor george calder alma taylor and others it if not dead they are gone from the old ton lind and ft a new generation geneia tion has han taken their place just enough of the old timers aie nith alth us et to make the link occue between the people who clovd tho the ground and d the thees that hane made the ashley valley alle a barden spot fall fait to see and those who are arc in a measure i caping tile the han eat and enjoying a pio prosperity which must oi 01 shall not be under estimated guess fuesy I 1 better open my eyes or ill tire you with my tale but this panorama and much more of the deeds of blivice done by these sterling men passes in my memoir and it is pleasant to remember |