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Show DAILY HERALD Sunday, December 9, 2007 Continued from previous Environmentalists worry border fence will threaten Arizona river If you go stay astride the saddle as the frightened animal broke into a dead run, taking him safely and rapidly back to the ranch. The startled boy suffered from such a state of shock that he didn't remember the wild ride What Utah Valley Historical Society Speaker: Lyndia McDowell Carter, "After the Rescue: Finding a Haven in Utah Territory" Arthur When: 7 p.m. Tuesday Where: Provo City Library, 550 N. University Ave., Provo 6 Info: home. Target shooting usually provided the boys in Mill Fork with a pleasant pastime, but one spring excursion to the makeshift firing range in 1888 gave young William Chadwick a real pain in the posterior. Chadwick and his friends used a pistol to plink away at various inof- fensive targets one day. Then, thinking all the cartridges in the gun had been expended, William picked up the pistol compointed it at a panion and blurted out, "I'll Lyndia McDowell Carter will address what happened to the Martin Handcart Company after it was rescued and brought to Salt Lake City. The people of the Martin Handcart Company were destitute, starving and ill from frostbite, frozen limbs and exposure when they arrived in Utah after spending six weeks in the snow on the road to Zioa The residents of Utah, many of whom were impoverished themselves, took in these infirm, homeless and needy immigrants. They provided shelter, clothed them and nursed PRESS Be- fore sealing off the border became the priority it is today, a visitor would have gotten a different picture of this area where the last river in the Southwest trickles banks. between tree-line-d The San Pedro River still moves lazily northward below a canopy of willows and But on a recent day, a bulldozer mounding dirt only 50 yards from its elevated eastern bank in preparation for the advance of a border fence presented a stark contrast to its serenity. The federal government contends the fence is needed to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and through the area. Environmentalists say it may slow some illegal crossers but will have a devastating impact on wildlife and the environment in the riparian area that encompasses the river. Mountain lions, jaguars, white-tailedeer, black bears and some ground birds will be among wildlife especially affected by the fence, which is just some 400 yards from the river at this point, said Matt Clark, a spokesman for Defenders of Wildlife. "When you construct a barrier across a conservation habitat, you're limiting the ability of a species to find food, habitat and mates, and you're preventing genetic exchange between populations," Clark said. ... Clearing of habitat for the construction also will affect the river's hydrology, increasing erosion and sedimentafree-flowin- g the ill. Carter has been researching the Martin Company experience for many years. She has written several articles and taught Utah history in public schools. daring. According to Hanna Ellen Chadwick Atwood, Houge torched the defenseless structure. Then he watched with gleeful satisfaction as the flames consumed the source of his distress. break, they broke the bread into pieces, dipped it into the Other buildings in the tiny milk and dined on bread and burg did not vanish in such a milk a common meal in days spectacular manner as did the school, but they gradually disFinding his pride wounded, gone by. Professor Edward M. Rowe, appeared, nevertheless. Men young Chadwick limped home. Maude Jensen and others who did not have a job on the He entered the house and sat on his bed for some time taught at the Mill Fork School, railroad found it difficult to wrest a living from the soil at before he mustered enough but Hyrum Southworthwas Mill Fork. One by one, these the teacher who created the intestinal fortitude to tell his fondest memories for Ray Elhomesteaders left for greener mother he had been shot in a rather embarrassing part of his liott, a one time student at that pastures. small school. Ray had good After their children had anatomy. The family transported the reason to revere his kind men- grown up, Edson William and tor. ; Mary Ellen Elliott could not do boy and his punctured posteBefore Ray reached school all of the work on their home- rior to Springville, posthaste, stead themselves in addition Provo's Dr. Pike met him there, age, he suffered from scarlet to Edson's performing his job treated the wound and released fever, and a large abscess formed under his ear. The doc- as a section foreman on the the lad, who started back up tor lanced the growth, cutting railroad. the canyon on the road to rean incision the length of his covery. They left Mill Fork just after The Provo American reportthe turn of the century when , patient's neck. The affects of ed the story, and the Salt Lake this abscess and its lancing left Edson found work at a mine near Castle Gate. By the time Herald picked it up. The newsRay hard of hearing for the rest of his life. paper article stated young they moved, many of the other Not realizing that Ray had a homesteaders already had left. Chadwick claimed, at first, that he had shot himself accidenhearing deficiency, some of his A few managed to hang on tally. Being hard pressed to ex- teachers criticized him soundly longer. Spanish Fork resident for not listening carefully to plain how he had managed to Doug Atwood, who once lived in the canyon, remembers shoot himself in that particular instructions. A few made Ray ; location,, he dropped that story write the day's assignment people living at Mill Fork until ' and accused the other lad of over and over again as a punthe mid 1930s. ishment for not paying close shooting him. During the 1940s, the attention. D&RGW began replacing its Concerning the accidental Mr. Southworth, who lived steam engines with diesel locoand unwilling gunman, the motives, and after the switch newspaper reported, "The boy with the Elliott family while was completed, the railroad he was teaching at Mill Fork, accused of doing the shooting feels very bad over being recognized that Ray's hearing stop at the old Mill Fork water charged with the deed, as he is loss affected his learning, and tower was discontinued in 1947. he took a simple step to rementirely innocent." As for the location of the wound, William edy the problem. First, South-wort- h The railroad also phased out use of its section house in was lucky not to have blown explained assignments out his brains. ' ; '. to the class as a whole, then he Mill Fork, and the. company After the charcoal kilns shut explained them individually to removed the structure in the down and Mill Fork's store late 1950s: Ray. This extra attention helped The former community of t closed its doors, the little comthe boy stay up with his class, woodcutters, railroad workers, munity did not offer many and Ray completed the eight charcoal manufacturers and ;" amenities. It could, however, at boast of having a school years offered at the Mill Fork homesteaders faded from exis's School. As a result of least for a while. The modest tence, leaving only memories kind efforts, Ray held and a small forlorn graveyard building stood down the canhis teacher in highest regard behind. yon near Sheep Creek on the The cemetery still exists, north side of the highway. The for the rest of his life. Unlike Ray, young Houge old foundation may still exist. and it likely cloaks more tragAtwood apparently found edies per burial plot than any James Elliott claimed it was ' there in 1968. nothing about the school in Mill other cemetery in Utah. Stories Fork that he enjoyed. In fact, revealing how several of its inJohnny Warner and habitants earned their earthly attended this little Houge developed a burning dread of education. This hatred resting places are as peculiar school at Mill Fork. In order and poignant as any tale reto provide her children vfith sparked a solution in his mind that was not so novel as it was lated by a writer of fiction. school lunch, Mrs. Warner well-bein- Rotstein PALOMINAS, Ariz. shoot you!" The threatened comrade was apparently offended by this manly intrusion into his state He grabbed Wilof liam's arm and forced the gun gripped in the hand of the bellicose boy downward. Somehow, the weapon discharged, the slug hitting "Billy" in the hip and ranging downward and to the left. H. ASSOCIATED THE 489-825- small-calib- B3 filled a covered pail with milk and wrapped several pieces of crusty homemade bread in a cloth Her progeny toted this sumptuous fare to the little schoolhouse. During the noon . .; ; :.- - fly ikJ (5 drug-runne- 7?- - d JOHN MILLERAssociated The Press San Pedro River moves north near Palominas, tree-line-d Ariz., on Nov. 7. The federal government contends the fence is needed to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and through the area, but environmentalists say it will have a devastating impact on wildlife and the environment. drug-runne- from plastic water bottles to food containers, clothing and human waste scar the same area. "Environmental experts and common sense tells you that border infrastructure is far more likely to have a positive no public input. Environmenencontribution to the environtalists said a more vironmental study was needed ment in this area over the long tion, possibly destabilizing the river's banks and potenfirst the very approach that run," he said. Chris Paolino, a spokesman tially shifting its course, which Chertoff was following before g for the Department of the Inin Texas. would impact its canopy of Chertoff now has invoked terior, said the Bureau of Land trees, he added. Environmental issues have the waiver power a total of Management, which manbeen raised along other porthree times to continue border ages this area, completed an tions of the environmental assessment on border fence construction, drawing tabbed for fencing as well, inthe ire of environmental advo- the general goals of the fence and concluded it would have cates each time. cluding Texas and San Diego. no significant environmental Russell Knocke, a spokesIn southern Arizona's man for Chertoff, said he San Pedro Riparian National impact. More than 70 miles of priConservation Area, they led rejects the allegations that the fence building will devastate to a judge's order that halted mary fencing costing $3 million a mile have been built in the San Pedro's ecology. construction until Homeland Knocke said critics omit the Arizona, where more illegal Security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived 19 environreality of the situation, where entries occur than any other mental, conservation and cul-- abandoned vehicles and trash state orvthe Mexican border. rural laws in late October. The judge had criticized Homeland Security and the Bureau of Land Management for taking only three weeks to conduct a biological assessment, which also allowed for fence-buildin- U.S.-Mexi- . " South-worth- 7 ' i( . s Court Ordered Bankruptcy Auction Trailers Equipment Real Estate Tues. Dec. 18th 1:00 pm 307 So. 1 250 West, Lindon, Utah This company manufactured and leased trailers to all of the major motion picture studios. 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