Show REMINISCENCES OF THE V I When Pec f Were Skin Shin P Poor O Grub Scarce and Did Not Ct Bother h Shee Sheep s' s I The e depth ep i of of oftie tb tie te and anti we weather weather ther conditions conditions ns' ns genes gen o orally th ih this s winter ii ce r pall cell al to mind many reminiscences m by yby rl o od d timers whO were I here er the winter of 80 79 h is io isone one o oi them h in and 1 t IS Intensely i Interesting r to to hear bea him him- f tell of f IS some ome f ot the trials the th people s W were r coni corn conn p polled pelted to put up oj In tn converSation f with Mr Bodily yesterday s tie o st stated te tet t a fair compact that that t winter t though tou h not noi so c cold lct eHe arrived In ln the tha Ashley Valley Talley November 2 1 1879 T Tat at same ici day snow commenced commenced to fall aH and tit con continued o to snow more or OJ less lessall u. u all winter r. r A w January thaw lt however w t settled it down downto to toa toa a 0 s 's solid mass He h ot remember the the date dat when If it was entirely gone b but t i lie fie remembers rs t. t that at there there w was waa still BUll snow and Ice on the ground w when wn n his daughter Hattie Hattle now Mrs Mrs J J. J C C Hack Hack- lag ing was born orn March 23 He brought In In- 40 head bead ot cattle and about sixty sheep the Ir first t sheep sheep- by the Ithe way in Uintah h county The cattle cat tie tle all an starved or froze to to death but eight eight- head bead Tb The sheep tor by browsing on OD the willows and brush brash along the creek pulled pulled- through alright aright end nd here bere is is another thing M Mr Bodily says he be cannot annot understand Those sheep used to range out In the hills west of the valley for days clays at a time and would finally come b home me and not nota a aone one While n- n tha coyotes ithe fields 1 and kill sheep E Early In the spring he with Phil String hum hem and Wm Shaffer Shadier started started start start- I ed ell to work with pick and shovel I tl to lt farms farms and by the of July had water running through wb whet what t Is n now w the the Up- Up canal In In the meantime mean time he hY had ad also alio cleared A h it ft twenty acres and alId fenced with a brush fence fen and had hadIn hadin hadin in a c crop crop oP Grub was scarce In fact they ey had bad nothing had nothing but graham bread and at at noon noon nile working w on the riga li-riga tion they would alt ait it on bf b bb b boulders drink water and eat a a chunk of brown bread ead which tasted mighty Good The deer were revere all allf f kin poor poor and not fit to eat The climax came when one day his wife wio said Well Robert what ratha r sro twe g going to do now there here e- e is not another another an an- other pound of flour In in a the ho house e. e It meant eat the tho poor deer meat or not nothing Dick ba had had- skinned a lot cattle tad bade frozen to death death and taken a a load of aides bIdeS bIdeS' out out to Hock Spring r and aM good was v wIth Ith t to em once more elf f or r l tha a j pV evening he returned with a A J load of flour There as only one school dow down t Jd shley i shley town town and and his his' e h not attend iorga or ga IZ d the school in th that rd d d took th the Initiative Ini teat ve P g tip up p the bo first I log V spool th house se the he land for for e donated donated by by Sterling golton dlton n. n Later on he be I with several se neighbors got out th tb the logs gs and amusement amuse am I ment t. t ha hall l b J s 1 et t td I nay flay clay as as aa the Maeser warde ward meeting meeting- e c souse o 1 I 1 I Iv v t |