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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE, UTAH r . . I - . News Notes lt' a Prioilig to Lip in Utah I Harold's Moth t "Yes - talnlv L 5 peka in "Hiiifrt m ' " ' " "" '' "'" 4 1 :ru?i r v- .::... ufc.x r tv. J a ii .v w i j w ... w w : , r. - SALT LAKE Utah has over 13,000 square miles of coal lands, the largest producing silver mine in the United States, the largest open tut copper mine in the world. GARFIELD The Garfield Associate team of the A league in the Utah Copper club bowling tournament is well out in front with thirteen wins and five losses for a percentage of 722. The Magna Carpenters and Polyglots are tied for second with eleven wins and ten defeats. CEDAR CITT Forest rangers reKai-ba- b turning from the east side of the the week slaughreport forest last ter of approximately 600 deer. Walter G. Mann, supervisor of the Kaibab forest; Elbert L. Cox and Carl Haycock, rangers, were assigned to the east side to hunt in South canyon on the Lee's Ferry side. cold SALT LAKE Continuous weather has brought no damage to ag ricultural crops as the state has prac- tically a continuous snow protection. However there is reported shrinkage in livestock. During the week the temperature went down to 12 degrees below zero at Logan and 6 below at Miiford, while St. George experience! a little real winter temperature falling as low as 20 degrees above zero. UTAH California depends upon Utah and the intermountain territory for half the meat served at its tables, stock buyers from that state declare at a dinner given in their honor at the Newhouse hotel Sunday. The chamber of commerce livestock committee and Salt Lake business men were hosts. H. E. Godwin, general freight agent of the Union Pacific system, was toastmaster. LOGAN The December report of Ward Dairy the Wellsville-CollegHerd Improvement association was filed with County Agent Robert L. Wrigley recently by Reuben Hansen, tester. There were 451 cows milking and 84 dry during the month. The average milk production per cow was 651 pounds, as compared with 580 pounds for the preceding period. The average butterfat production per cow was 25.52 pounds, compared with 22.71 pounds for November. CITY BRIGHAM Sportsmen of Boxelder county slaughtered approximately 3000 jackrabblts recently in the Promontoy district in a drive staged by the Brlgham City post of the American Legion. They left this city at 9'oclock in the morning in automobiles and were met at Promontory by a delegation of farmers headed by Lew Whitaker. The hunters were taken in bobsleds and on horseback into the Rozelle flat, where the rabbits are plentiful. n DUCHESNE The state road recently announced plans for the expenditure in Duchesne county during 1929 of $310,000, following a conference with the Duchesne county The program caKs commissioners. for the expenditure of $260,000 on federal aid projects, $135,000 of which will be spent on a 5.4 mile stretch of road due east of Frultland, and the remainder to be expended on two section projects near Duchesne and Antelope. Two bridges are to be constructed over the Duchesne river and $50,000 Is to be used for connections on federal aid roads. PROVO Providing the necessary funds to pay for the trucking of the animals into the county, can be raised among the sportsmen, two truckloads, totaling possibly twenty-fivelk, will be brought into Utah county from the Mt. Nebo reservation, according to I L. Bunnell of the Provo Conservation association and placed In the mountains east of this city and on the western slope of Timpanogos, just east of Pleasant Grove. The animals are being caught by the government and will be given to the local association. A campaign to raise the necessary $200 will be conducted by Bunnell. UTAH Scores of persons interested in the wbrk of digging trenches to lay natural gas line pipe, were out on the east bench recently to see the huge ditching machine in action. The machine is expected to dig a trench to Coalville In forty-fivday3 and crews of pipe layers will follow in its wake. The ditcher has already dug a trench- the length of a Salt Lake City block, more than three feet deep and a proximately two feet wide. Ofilcials of the Uintah Pipeline company, which is laying the mains to bring natural gas into Utah, reported that a mile of ditch a day can be dug. SALT LAKE An Increase of more than $250,000 during 1928 in the fees and taxes collected by the secretary o state is shown In the final report and remittance of H. E. Crockett, retiring secretary of state, to John Walker, retiring state treasurer. KLSINORE The Elsino-- e sugar lactory, according to official announcement of the Suyar company, will not solicit beets in the Sevier valley, or attempt to oper&te the factory by the Gunnison Valley Si'gar company. The announcement of the Utah-IdahSugar comnanv stvs- "For some years past the Utah-IdahSugar company has found it impossible, to owing adverse weather enndit'ons arrd other causes to sufficient beets in and around the Elsinore factory to economically and profitably run the factory." e 'TT H I By ELMO SCOTT WATSON kS HIS book. "The Wav of the West." I the late Emerson Hough paid a fine I tribute to one of the earliest "Made In I A morion nrnrlnpta nrhon .ho wrnto? "Witness this sweet ancient weapon of our fathers, the American rifle, maker of states, empire builder. Useful as its cousin, the ax, It Is In design simple as the ax; In outline severe, practicable, in every regard. . . . purposeful This Is no belonging of a weak nor savage man. It Is the weapon of the Anglo-SaxoIn Amerthat is to say, the Anglo-Saxoica, who invented It because he had need for It . . Never In the history of the arms of nations has there been produced a weapon whose results have been more tremendous In comparison to the visible expenditure of energy; never has there been a more economical engine, or an environment where economy wns more impressive. . . . With it were equipped the early Americans, gaunt, keen, tireless that marched to meet the Invading forces at the battle of New Orleans; and when the officers of the British army, on the day after that stricken field, found half their dead shot between the eyes, they knew they could lead their troops no more against such wenponry and such weapon bearers. The rifle had won the West, and It would hold it fast." The weapon of which he wrote was the long rifle, which, shooting a tiny bull, Instead of a bullet, and as Hough also says, "shooting it with an accuracy hitherto deemed Impossible In the achievements of firearms," .nade It the favorite weapon of the American frontiersman Just before the Revolution. With it were equipped the companies f "expert riflemen" from Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania who marched In 1775 to take part In the siege of Boston and who later furnished the men for the famous Morgan Riflemen. It was the weapon which Daniel Boone and his associates carried Into the "Dark and Bloody Ground" of Kentucky and because of their feats with It this rifle became popularly known as the "Kentucky rifle," or in the vernacular, the "old Kalntuck." And therein lies one of the curious Inconsistencies In history. For the "Kentucky rifle" was originally made and perfected tn Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania Oerman rifle makers and It would have been vastly Wore appropriate If this type of weapon had gone down In history as the "Pennsylvania rifle." Recently press dispatches " recorded a curious Item In the fact that the Pennsylvania museum In Philadelphia had been presented with 35 examples of this weapon, through the generosity of .1. Stogdcll Stokes, a collector, and In the Item they were called "Kentucky rifles"! The principle of the rifle, the twist In the bore, is said to have originated In the (Jermnii states of the Palatinate, but It remained for German Immigrants to this eount-- j to Improve It and perfect Its nse. This they begun doing as early as 1732. and before 17G0 Nie town of Lancaster. Pa., had g a virtual monopoly upon the business. After that date, men who had learned the trade there ranched out for themselves and the fame of the Lancaster gunsmiths had spread throughout the colonies. By 1775 these Lancaster "graduates" were operating rifle shops In Baltimore and Cumberland, Md., Alexandria, Newmarket, Winchester and Richmond, Va., Charlottesville. Cam den and Salisbury, N. C. and Augusta, Ga., Schenectady, Esopus, Onondaga, Johnstown and Canajoharle, N. Y., not to mention the numerous ones In Lancaster, Esiston and other towns In Pennsylvania. Sawyer In tils "Firearms in American History" lists no less than 70 Pennsylvania rifle makers previous to 1783, of whom 25 were early Lancaster rifle makers, whose arms were In use at the outbreak of the Revolution, even if the men themselves were not then living. But of all these, two wre destined for the greatest fame. One of them was a gunsmith who operated his unshop in Philadelphia before and after 1732 and in Lancaster before and after 1753. Jacob Peclierd was his iiiinie (it Is also spelled Dechert. Descherd and Dlckert), but the American frontiersmen were to "all his product a "Deckard" or "Deckhnrd" und to swear by It as "the sweetest shootin !r the world." The other man was an Easton (Pa.) rifle maker years ago Emerson Hough started an Inquiry as to n; rifle-mnkin- , named John Golcher or Goulchei, who for a while was employed In a Philadelphia "factory" to instruct In boring and grinding barrels, but who returned to Easton where he began turning out titles that became famous, especially single-locrifles. One of his rifles revolving double-barrwas used by George Washington, but perhaps the most famous was that double-barrele- d Golcher with which Timothy Murphy of Morgan's Rifle corps killed General Fruzer at the Battle of Saratoga, which In view of the tremendous results of his deadly aim can appropriately he called a "shot heard around the world," no less than that fired at Concord. Although so many of the rifles of these Pennsylvania craftsmen were carried into Kentucky by the pioneers who crossed over into that Promised Land before and during the Revolution as to give this type of arm the name of "Kentucky rifle." the number was not enough to supply the frontiersmen's needs In battling the savages who were trying in vain to stem' the tide of white Invasion. So It was only natural that they should prevail upon one of the Pennsylvania rifle makers to establish a gun sho; In the new country and some time before 17!X) a certain Mills, said to nave been an apprentice of Decherd, was turning out "Kaintucks" at Harrodsburg. He lived there until 1815 and no doubt some of the rifles were carried by the Kentucky and Tennessee frontiersmen under "Old Hickory," who shot Pakenham's veterans "squarely between the eyes" at the battle of New Orleans. Another Pennsylvania-Kentucky rifle maker, whose career covered both the flintlock and percussion lock period of rifle making was John Shell, who learned the trade at Liverpool, Pa., emigrated to Kentucky and died only a few years ago In his homestead on Greasy creek, where he had lived for a century, at the ripe old age of one hundred thirty-threI The "old Kalntuck" has had no more apprecl ative and historian than the man previously quoted, Emerson Hough, who writes of it In "The Way to the West" as follows: The ball of the American rifle was small, forty, ixty or perhaps one hundred of them weighing scarcely more than a pound. The little, curving horn, filled with the precious powder grains, carried enough to furnish many shots. The stock of the rifle Itself gave housing to the little squares of linen or fine leather with which the bullet was patched In loading. With this tiny store of powder and lend, easilv portable fond for this providentially contrived weapon, the American frontiersman passed on silently through the forest, a muster, an arbiter, ruler of savage beast or savage foeman. and In time master of the civilized antagonist that said him nay. t5ven when the Pennsylvania rifle makers had helped push the frontier to beyond the Mississippi, their contribution to the "winning of the West" was not yet done. Por it was the Haw kins or Hawkens. a family of Pennsylvania gunsmiths, who made the famous Hawken rifle which became the favorite weapon of such men as Kit Carson. Jim Bridger, Jim Baker and all the other old time mountain men. The history of this family Is not entirely clear. Sawyer states that Henry Hawkins later members of the family spelled It "Hawken") learned the trade at Ltm caster. Pa., worked In the Harpers Ferry armory and went to St. Louis soon after IStMl. However, the men who made the Hawken rifle famous throughout the great West were two brothers. Jacob and Samuel Hawken (sons oi Henry Haw kins) who were partners In a gunshop In St Louis in 1822. After they put their product on the market, no trapper or fur trader would start out on an expedition up the Missouri or into the Rockies without a "trusty Hawken," If he could nelp It. The only difficulty was that the demand exceeded the supply, especially at the price asked. For the Hawkens, and especially S. Haw!. en. who became the more famous of the two, bad but one price for their rifles and that was $25, no more. 00 less. He could have obtained much more than that, but he believed It was a fair price and main talned it better-Informe- d Several Hawken rifles are rarities. genuine Hawkens there were still in existence and discovered that so far as Is known there were only four. Two were In the collection of the Missouri Historical society, one was owned by Judge Jules E. Gulnotte of the Probate court In Kansas City, and the fourth was the Hawken owned by Kit Carson, now preserved In the museum of Montezuma lodge, A. F. and A. M. of Santa Fe, N. M., of which Carson was a member. At that time, a fifth was discovered by the author of this article In the collections of the El Paso County Pioneer association in Colorado Springs, Colo. This weapon (which is pictured above) was lent to the society in 1910 by Le Roy Chapman of Littleton, Colo. Near it was another famous weapon, also said to have been owned once by Kit Carson, a .50 caliber Sharps rifled carbine, made by Sharps and Hanklns In Philadelphia In 185!). These carbines were made for navy use and had a leather covering sewed on the entire length of the barrel to prevent rust. One of the partners in the firm which made this gun was Christian Sharps who began making rifles, which were used in the Mexican war, although his first patent was not issued until 1848. However, It was not until 1859 that the Sharps rifles became famous. Then one fall day In that year old John Brown attacked Harpers Ferry and over the wires flashed the news that Brown and l.ls men were armed " with "Sharps and that one of Brown's sons had shot and killed the mayor of the town with that weapon. When the Civil war broke out the famous Pennsylvania "Buck Tall" regiment marched to war armed with these improved "man killers," a short gun of .56 caliber with a sword bayonet. Instead of caps they used a tape vhich was coiled in a chamber close to the tube and when the soldier was ready to fire the tape was pulled up so that one end would cover the tube and the hammer would strike the percussion tape. Another Sharps-rifleused in the Civil war, was a .52 caliber and used a linen cartridge. "Their rapidity of tire and accuracy enabled a soldier marksman to hit his enemy first," says Sawyer. "And the renown of Civil war companies of Infantry armed with Sharps rifles soon gave rise to the laudatory term 'Sharpshooters.'" But It remained for a later Sharps to hrina that rifle maker his greatest fame. That w:is Sharps buffalo gun. This was tin model made from 1875 to 18S0 which used a metallic cartridge and was nia!e In three enliliers. .4(1 .45 and .50. These rifles had a thick heavy bar rel and the total weight of the weapon was from fourteen to eighteen pounds. The hi.llet fired from such a weapon had a tremendous shocking power, even at a range of a quarter of a mile or more. In fact, one of the niot famous shots in American history was that made by Billy Dixon a buffalo hunter, at the battle of Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle in 187-1- . Popular tradition has preserved the tale of this shot and exaggerated it until It had Dixon kil'ins an Indian at mile and a half! Here Is what Dircon himself has to say ahout.it In the story of ids lif which he dictated before his death in ai d which was published by his widow. Mrs. Olive K Dixon, the next year: "The distance was not far from s I took careful aim of a mile and pulled t!e t iggrr. We saw an Indian fall 1 from his horse wns admittedly a sood marksman, yet this was what might be calk- -i a 'scratch' shot." Theodore Roosevelt once said that ihe Sharps rifle soimded the knell of doom for the North American huffaln. He might have ad'ed that it did the same for the Indian, for when the red man was deprived of this staple in his food supply his day of dominion of a conti ient was So the product of another Pennsylvania done. rifle maker helped win the trans Mlssis-ipyv(, just as fhopp of the earlier gun makers of Mie Keystone state had won the trans Allesrheni? West. For the "Kalntuck," the Hawken and the Sharps cities in the hands of American frontiers men were tools with which a natJo was msde. 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