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Show I Are. Johnston's Gannons I In Jordan River m Preparations Being Made to M Search For Old Time Relics H Here is the Story For What It Is Worth. Bj Representatives of tlio Dcsoret Mus- Kg outn hnvo inado tirriingements with Kg Orlando Itorroii to mnko a search ot M Jonlnn River near l.ehl fur uluc big IB brass cannon said to have been thrown M In Jordan Itlver at thu time when R Johiison'n 11 nil y left Utah in the early Hg sixties. Air. Hcrron Ih positive that the H cannon iircthoro and thinks that lir H can direct tlio state officials JtiRt H whom to get thorn. It U well known that Johnston'? Be army brought to Utah n lot of blj. BB lrasn cannon, weighing about two BB tons ench, with which to shoot Mor- H mons. However, they were never used Hu and when Johnston broko camp at Kg Camp Douglas to return and fight In H the war of tho Itcbclllnn, ho did not care to hntil the cinubersomo weapons by mule team back over tho niountali BH roads. So to prevent their railing BH Into the hands of Hrlghnm Voung, he BB quietly threw them Into Jordan River, Hi west or southwest of l.ehl. One ol HJ the old soldiers who holped to do Ililh HJ told tho story to n friend of Mr. Her- HJ ron. Mr. Herron himself was one of i HJ tho jiloncers who ciimo to Utah In 181? HJ and was well acquainted with the. H sollders and their life at Camp Kir Sal Mr. Herron made n search one da ' H for the cannon, but says that where HJ he thinks they nro burled, tho wash HJ from tho canyon has covered them i jfi with about four feet of mud and ikv HJ brls. Hoi robcd the placo with a HJ long iron rod nud thinks that he B struck olio of tho cannon about four H feet from the surface. Later he went BJBj to the Peep Stono woman for confirm- I atlon. Sho looked Into her qunrtz BB crystal and declared that beneath BB whero Mr. Herron had driven a stake BB slip could sco six big brass cannon, and about thirty rods further north 2jH she could see throe more of them. TflB Tho six were covered with canyon vfl wash, but the other three wero simply 5jT lying In tho bottom of tho rlvor. Mr. Iju Herron says that ho did not tell her H what ho was looking for, but thnt she, JH described tho cannons and tho place 3 perfectly, Many local people, can Hi testify to tho Peep Stone womnn'H HI ability to locate lost nulmals. Did BBJ she see tho cannons? |