| Show jack diamond names mountain of the first men on dia mond mountain tells the we hse h already published two lurid stories forte ie as to how diamond mountain one from the salt lake buie which cot got iti its name one irom from the salt lake tribune which was without exception denounced As a false alarm marm by all an the od old time residents of asaley valley and the ohr other by mrs NU nile hughal which feted to be better we ar atre now A third story which ve we feel ure sure wll wig oe more gen emily accepted it came to us anso unsolicited li cited and was written by charley sell kw ti here ai the early days and waa a written from fruits col rado da he tie RAYS ay 1 I have read in the vernal express lately two different accounts about how diabo d mountain lot got its name alil and d I 1 think they are both wrong 1 I 1 came across diamond mountain in the fall of 1377 1877 about the time that dunk blair moved hh cattle in there from rock springs wyoming 1 I stopped over night ith mr hir blair at a spring that had been dug du out and ailed walled up with sith rock there vaa vu a flat mck by the bering wing with the name dianco Di amold d spring cut ta in it t nun sith a co d chisel I 1 asked mr clair blair bow the tpring spring got its name and he be bald that three or four years prior to this two men from rock pock springs were out there trapping aid and made beir camp at the spring that ther the lug it out and waited walled it up and cut the name on the flat rock one of these men was named jack diamond and that j M probably the way that the tpring and the aln got the name C P HILL fruits colorado |
