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Show TIIE MAGAZINE SECTION. HERALD-REPUBLICA- t mm iwai Wicnm ' iH 7 ,i 171 i 1 o 7a ti rm U talis 1 the Henries. Where There Is Still nil Atmosphere of M! in This Year of (5 nice 101; Where One Can Hear the Whoop of the and the Heady (inn of the Gold Miner. MAGAZINE SECTION. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 1916 N, ... rtrl boundaries 1 , N Tn Cow-punc- . -- t; j -- , ( ' . ' ' r - . x.v . g , her fB .lOSKPIT TURKMAN") TTOW far ran you get from civilization anil still he v. ithin the boun-!nn- I linr-- ; of I'tab ? moan today. l!Mi. If you vutp to nsk tnc that question. I should draw ilown the map of Cnrfiebi county and jioint ing to the Henry mountain say. ' Somewhere hereabout you will find all that was representative of t h West of- '40, including the whoop of the row- puncher and th ever ready gun of the gold 4 .V.', "He did add that there were probably several hundred wild horses on the Burr ranch." The curiosity was aroucd and he settled old mine, could this not be the "Iost where we were to pass. Wo kept a lookout hut somehow missed From thi do not get the idea that himself sidewise in hi saddle while Josephine?" They took samples of sharp him. his camp on a small ore and, it is said, the assays were stream Finding I have any intention of picturing the lie told us the story. about a mile further on, we now in Just reirion til more of the Miners, than roost." a of as "robbers' sort encouraging. Henry decided to camp and wait his arrival. region Far from that, I would have you mountains anl also stockmen, have they are looking for a buyer. So at We had barely got stopped when he came plunging down the hillside. think of it as "filled" with a srat- - known the storv of there having once least goes the popular siory. ''Howdy, strangers." tn a mine hereabouts worked ly the Following the trail which had been tered population of gtdd seekers, cow- Howdy." knew punted out to us. we soon passed over lovs and sheepherders. earn of whom Spaniards before Anclo-Saxo- n far today?" "Going . . , , . K the low divide ltetween the North inn- lias his ?tor- - to tell breathing the ttmm Mini .1 J'l.u . TI,lie. - ilor "No. just over as far as Straight creeic. ' ' Henryi and came frank, daring spirit that many of u goes that this was a very rich mine, Henry and Middle i i ii have thought had parsed away with yielding almost pure gold, which the Uhu an olM sneep corral. Ail aoouiii " Well, yes, and looking for range." thr. fW forest seemed those daring advanced guards who Spaniards packed upon the backs of "'Devilish i)oor pickings hereabouts. iil. ted civilization out west in the slaves and carried thus to their homes to hold out gaunt hands, begging I've been here ever since last Novem- in Mexico, or California. The brave Fncle Sam's protection by reserve. )(,r .inij ; haven't seen feed enough forties." The Henry mountain-- ; proper, the Xava.jos, who dwelt to the south, and Here is a mountain once well forest- to keep a milk cow, though they say there are thirteen herds of sheep on wildest part of them, are about -- 00 who frequented this region for pur- cd. now snarselv so: once well grown the north mountain and Meeks alone, miles by wagon road from the nearest poses of hunting, noticed the unfair with grass and shrubs, now over they say. must have some 2000 catrailroad station. And, when you get manner in which the whites treated stocked and left to the mercies of tle in here. Yes, there must be about that far from the toot of a locomo- their own people. So one day they tho storms. Whv should it not be 10.000 cattle here within sixty miles." He told us his name was Ware and the Siniards and. killing under federal protection? tive, you may rest assured every man fell he was from Denver, though he that beall of them except one. freed the Silently we rode, for shaking in had been in about you meet is a friend, for the time mining camp this desolate region seems to strike between there andevery California. He ing, at least. You may rest equally slaves and returned to their homes. The one surviving Spaniard escaped a discord. A shout from a ledge believes that by placer mining a great assured that he will tell his story, and high above us brought us to a stop. amount of gold will soon be taken that it will be one rough and interest- to his people and after relating the The horses pricked their ears and from the streams that drain the ing as the new hewn log. In a city story died. None was left who knew neighed even they seemed to re- Henry. He told us that one outfit cvctv man tells his Morv. it is true, the location of the "Lost Josephine." joice in having found some creature was making ready to spend $10,000 on b it you soon lrarn the types as you Many knew in a general way, but who had recognized them. We called one project on the North mountain. ' Where are you ? ' ' Aked about the "Lost Josephine," Mm lrarn the different kinds of they dared not go into the land of the lifTe side on the of the he "Sitting up said, "Ah pooh, every camp has bricks of which buildings are con- fierr1 Navajos. So the tradition fin- flirt lost mine." its s ami, "What you doing up there?" in structed. When voti have seen one ally reached the "My explanation of the presence ha bri-ou have seen them all. preserved for fully a bun- - mjired we. of that old shaft over there on BulI'.ut. where men are f w and bricks drtd years by them. "Trying to see what this ledge is lfrog," he went on, "dates back about Lost autumn a prospector by thei.ade out of." echoed and thirty years, when there was a great are rmnc.it is different. F. very hewn hi rplv along the ledges and through Ijoom on down in San Juan county. l different from every other name or dates and his companion, 1." trees Well, when the overflow was on its We pushed on and. as our trail led way back, some of them stopped off riory in a jean: e upon the dumping place of an hen loe. so even." man's nest i The Tt w as at the head of Hull- u shaft. little land like Ttah' Up the hillside in the direction of our here and dug that mine. 1 am not inil! late the f indicated at of acquaintance, we knew we should prepared to say whether it is worth frog rrerk by punt Hennrs). is a new on" and an Mr. tmd him waiting somewhere near anything or not. but I will bet a SpanIeeniplen. Here, said they, is tere-- f . iard never saw it, unless it was some There is King's ran h. an alt at fa herder." shoe) i field by tif an.ls of Mr. Ware said he had a partner riddle Henry. W o."TT. Cross indicates location of Lost Josephine, said to have been old Spanish diggings. miner." I 1 ! , v.-- I . 1 j Xmm ! ,iu-nmw:iri-n j ' j 4 jk j uj-o- S.v-.- tf n ;"r7 ' & IffiS) rr iV fv4';: & k- vv - Xll 4 - yMlibi SX y "va hX;j - 1 ; 'r?XXXX p 'rfe-V- .'' f :xrxnWiiii . XlAuT y i 7 n - r-- Jf1- - VV - V j . i - On Anglo-Saxon- j N-vr- k i j ! not more than a half mile below our camp. These are piles of cottonwood trees where they have been fixed to form a sort of protection for some one while they worked at the water's edge. Far back into the hillside, parallel with the stream, this dugout work has been pursued. It is easily traced for a distance of fifty yards, how much farther it was pushed remains unknown to the simple ob re-echo- ed j j j I I d nro-:r.d-- or nc'is hide of i rane lano. on the North Ih un Here late in Jitlv .v Mt. l found w RED CROSS ON THE JOB IN MUD- SOAKED TRENCHES ON WEST FRONT . F.lh-n)- . e t l for anl good matured I)ae Teemi'les. tin- tor.r au. h - wit'e !:or-e-- tir-- l c-u-r and two horses which they packed. They had no riding animals, being able to move about more at will and being able the better to examine the rocks as they traveled on foot. Watej ' - it -- r:.-- or - 4 J' ' I . t ' - ', 4 Y V ' "v, ; v down on Sweet Water in November and undid it at the shear- ing the next April." We made our camp that night on a sort of butte near the head of Straight creek. Just below, so it seemed, though six miles distant, was a green strip which was pointed out to us as & So-and-- 1 1 t 4 . ... V .. . the Old Stewart ranch. Here thirty-yearago dwelt an exceptional old man named Shurtz. Dwelt alone and for months no human being saw him or knew of hi doings during that s . -- lo : -- , - 'i ; ': -- V - , ' v time. - I I I i ! i lie .'imated that i. ( -- th.ere wild hundred t rd! Imnds within a radius Mirror in r :t ho would not f thirl'.' t t rituie ;:o a'e of the number of . djraiideii rattle j;:.d horses flat there v.tr- in that locality, ongli h.f .'.id add that their were pp.duihlv m vera I hunnred head of wild n,rtN -- till its tie i!'t u!;broktn re- the we? I tt'e ;n it we e u! l .. .. ! c .o n to ite stockmen r. a Ifiirr flat re-- i Ml g . u weary animals at !: raneii h r hours Dave mu-- f l a' a s-- e-i- . in ' F ' - r - v ' - x ' ' J - i 1 - 1' vv - , - s ... : - ' v : . . - , ' " it'.! e u- - uliii'j :;.r"jlv a far ... rrt'lv and there i: oriir-- l ; Itull-Cro- ; , I ' 1 Si 51 ji ' li !' A i " ut to Here i3 an interesting picture depicting the bravery of the Ked Cross on the western front. It shows wounded men in a British trench workers . et no. n. "Noti.'r that white pn l j . . .r T i xn wounacase was xreaxea unuer me ure. 10 xins ii DCing carry impossiDie the nv'ii oi v. f re tue t ra goes nu r cd man to the hospital and treatment is Veing given hira on the spot where f '.i , t!.- M.M i." the he oundcd. At the right iz a "Tommy" with his injured foot neatly i e 1 our.-Of o.ir bandaged. J.r,r th" trail u v c i. ;;h! follow thai aft- I - !. ( 1 i I ienna-nen- t gold. One day some cattle men were passing the ranch and, noticing somethe thing unusual about place, to old man. He see the stopped be could not found. Forcing the door of his cabin they found him stone dead upon the floor. They strapped him on the hack of a mule and conveyed him thus to Hanksville. There while preparing for burial, they found a bajg of gold upon his person valued at different amounts varying from .flfiO to $1000. Where did lie i ". Few indeed were the inhabitants of the region in those days. Sixty miles to the north is Hanksville. the nearest postof fiee. Shurtz used to go there at irregular intervals for his mail and trade a small amount of gold dust for necessary ammunition and tobacco. No one ever seemed to bother him enough to inquire where he had obtained the f-I- 1 I v.-a- s j i War Has Impoverished a Princely Home ! tawa as governor general of the great dominion across the border. He is emphatically the territorial aristocrat of the British islands, on whose 186,000 acres are mines of princely yield, great forests and herds of deer, says Current Victor Christian William Cavendish Opinion. His most famous seat is Chatsworth, officially, his grace, the Duke of Devonshire has all. sorts of titles be- where the picture galleries are, to say sides, from that of baron upwards, and nothing of the library with its rare ediin no loriK time he will reside in Ot- - tions and the statues, for one cf which an offer of $200,000 was' refused with something like disdain. No home in London is .statelier than Davenport MERCHANT FLEET house. It is nothing at all for a whole theatrical company to leave London in a special trafn for a special perforof "Hamlet" at Chatsworth beSOLDIERLY TRAINING mance fore a special audience, including royalty, in return for a special reward. The dukes of Devonshire have prided themselves on their generosity, their munificence to a tenantry established on their estates for generations. The dukes make a sort of glittering progress through the realm from one splendid "seat" to another, princes as they are in all but name. The house of Cavendish, in short, is the supreme glory i of the British peerage. The head of it, to repeat, is "the" duke. War has stripped the duke of every at this hour he is but grandeur andowner of Chatsworth and the nominal Hardwick.- More than half of his immense income is taken from him in the form of tax His stately homes are hospitals. The perfect Italian gardensin have been plowed for wheat, the deer some cases given up their domain to the dairy farmer. The duke has no more festivals. Even his heir, a mere stripling, has gone fo the front, where he got a nasty burn, according to one stcry. There is another boy in training at a camp and In addition there are five little girls. The di:chess, who belongs to the family of the Marquis of Lansdowne, has for months been a nurse, practically, makknit-tlnj- v ing gruel for men in hospitals, seeks, and. It seems, even learning how to l make beds and bandages. Her guests ave been the wounded of Andrew W. Preston. all ranks brought, over from France President Andrew W. Preston of arid Flanders. Before the war she was, her capacity as mistress of the robes, the United Pruit Company, is allow- in a dazzling social figure. In the past ing all of his employes who attend year her uniform has been that of a the Plattsburg training camp one full nurse. month's vacation at full pay, with a The recent death of the Duke de bonus of $75. Mr. Preston is an ardent advocate of military training Kohan in the Sotnrac offensive .recalls "VY t x I j r t 1 t j .j'.r- Canvon of the Colorado." server. From no point can one appreciate Beyond the Stewart ranch Ave could see a broad desert region, stretching the immensity of the basin of this far away" until, it reaches a rough mighty river bo well as from this country and there, in the deepest mountain. Every gorge and hallow is gorge, we could see spots of water. disernable through the clear, rare air elevation. As far This is the course of the mighty Colo- of this 11,000-foo- t is to be seen can seen as the reach rado. Down to the right is easily eye the deepening of the canyon, and one something new and one scorns never says with the confidence of looking to tire of gazing out over this grand"That is the Grand est of all panoramas. typical prospector, well read, in- life has ben so completely revtelligeiit and being extra nice about his toilet, uitp a contrast to the NOolutionized by the great war. as sheep herder. Mr. Teeple had told us that of the head of the Cavendish famabout in the morning, said Dave: "1 ily "the" duke of this period as was "the" duke of an older day. pinned that safety pin in ins collar is a rsn tell you family. Mrs. tett mothers oncer ii;- -' how n;nnv ' ears ngo. At 'the time we met .e.-another wrman t'."' r!;t':-- . but of t!iis f..r si,,if no .im p!. lint. The grow- tii' raoin irg number tin e. iter of p!'!;' if t lie gn ;..' o iug-- t ers around la'.. en vonw more. the ard !'.' t ' n fat the l.en! was D'.e told '' increasing ::ud iot' I'd us how wril t ' e agreel v :u; turn nlf'alfa re . lil.tt tf. v n 'lortlv at uand s such as t tie one hen ot he?' r;: o'liii spring up w htre i'e i' a Joe.ired. 1! tiuit th.e wild nnr br. and burros for Sand.- of l;orM'. uhieh the Henry mountains vere fa- ' " euuiuu ivs g uy. nail i rn- TopU- -i - King's ranch, Henry mountains. The replacing of wild bands with well bred stock is the pride of the 1 1 1 A. T 1 j j HEAD FAVORS m Ar.'.'fV.V.'. get the gold? Prospectors, sheepherders, cattlemen and men of fortune have. offered These have various explanations. simmered down until now they scorn o,uite agreed that he washed it from the sands of Straight creek. What are stated to have cpn the work of his hands lie now iu the fprm of ruins, and preparedness. - heroes Avon the medal of the Legion of Honor by a daring ruse. At the beginning of tho war the duke and his orderly rode, unaeeom- panied, to a French farmhouse which had been occupied by 100 Prussians. A peasant Avamed them that the enemy Avas in possession, but the duke hoped that a squadron of French Avould soon reinforce him. The duke left his orderly in the caA'-al- ry court of the farm to orders gallop his horse back and forth and make as much noise as possible. He then pressed on into the stone-pave- d w-it- h house. The Prussians were refreshing themselves in the dining room. Th.e duke strode in boldly, crying: "You are surrounded. Surrender at once." The Prussians leaped to their feet in alarm and surrendered their arms, herding into a corner of the room. Fortunately for the Duke de Rohan, the squadron of cavalry soon appeared to make good his bhiff. Officers and men of the British army have been eAading the military censorship in writing home to their families. NeAvs of projected military has been leaking out in some mysterious manner and investigation has evidently convinced army authorities that soldiers' correspondence to the folks at home is the source of information. In an order to the army published in Ixmdon papers at the close of July, it is intimated that the use of codes has been discovered. The orders states, "Each officer or man who privately transmits informa tion (even, to those on whose discre-jticmoA-ement- s n he may have 'the most complete reliance) inevitably facilitates the task of the enemy's agents and indirectly sacrifices the lives of his comrades." The order promises that the guilty persons Avill be sought out aoid the story of, how one of France's seAcrely dealt with. |