Show SUNDAY MORNING JULY 13 THE OGDEN 1941 PIONEER DAYS' EDITION STANDARD-EXAMINE- R Ogden's Most Fantastic Fete Promoted By 'Coin' Harvey CorinneV Ogden?s Early Rival Had Wild and Hectic Career As Gentile Capital of Utah One of the most unusual towns in Utah is Corinne in Box Elder county which at one time had a reputation as one of the wildest communities in all the west Here is how Corinne is described in "Utah A Guide to the State" (Hastings House) compiled by workers of the federal writers' project: "Corinne (pop in the sun like in Corinne also gained a place in history from its participation in politics Here was the home of the Liberal party the first party to oppose the Mormon People's party The political battle which ensued for years was the stormiest chapter in Utah history The New York Herald remarked about 1870 that "The Gentile town of Corinne polled more votes than it had - 411) dreams old man rehie youth The once membering roaring fighting hllarioue rake-he- ll town has little to show for Its riotous past A handful of houses a few weather-staine- d business buildings a church and a school are all that remain of a city of more than 2000 people It Is hard to imagine that once the gentile stronghold once this little farming village was aspired to become the capital of Utah once had hopes of becoming a great agricultural center and was once so wild it had to to rid ithire an outlaw-tamself of undesirables Envisioned Steamboats "Tn 1 RPfl Hfnrlr A rlliYinrP with live genine companions bioou on the west bank of the Eear river and visioned a throbbing gentile metropolis a great railway junction and steamboats plying back and forth across Great Salt lake from the mines to the south "They made haste to acquire the land A contract was made with the Union Pacific railroad to survey and lay out the town with alternate lots for compensation The men felt secure with such a powerful ally behind them Utah was the Mormon stronghold and with a vivid tradition the of eastern persecution Saints would not look with favor upon any gentile settlement The Mormons were staunch in their beliefs insisted upon conformity to their standards and had as a fixed purpose the creation of a state of their own Rapid Growth "On the other side were men broueht in bv the railroads who were more absorbed with railroad and mining economy than with religion Within two weeks more than 300 frame buildings shanties and tents were erected and the population rose to 1500 excluding the 6000 Chinese left behind by the railroad "Corinne at once became a thorn in the side of Mormon authorities in their determined effort to control the Territory With completion of the transcontinental railroad In 1869 thousands of freighters swarmed into the "Burg On the Bear" making it their headquarters Most ad-of d them were rough venturers fresh from the Civil war with fairly stable desires and demands all of them mental They spent weeks away from civilization and when they reached Corinne they wanted a good time Corinne gave it to them "Undesirables flooded the town Daniel Ryan a former Civil war officer who had a reputation as a 'law and order' was appointed Corlnne's 'outlaw-tame- r' in 1869 He either drove the outlaw out of town or shot it out with him He cleaned up Corinne and died a natural death in his old age er ' Garfield' became an excursion boat and finally endd as a pavilion at Garfield bench south of Great Salt lake" Range Veteran Finds Changes In Equipment of Cowboys horse (Dad) Strccter of Thirtieth who in his younger days worked all over the western country as a cowhand and who knew Buffalo Bill Cody and Butch Cassidy the outlaw declares that the equipment used by cowboys today is considerably different from that used when he was on the range "The movies always picture cowboys wearing big hats" he said "But" you seldom see a working cowboy wearing one of them They're dangerous You can never tell when the wind might blow the wide brim down across your eyes and blindGeorge C 490 on and half off my f half as would be the case if cinch broke" gun-fight- er Part of Entry A blow to Corinne was the decision to locate the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Ogden Busi- ness institutions immediately migrated to Ogden The founders of Corinne however thought up a plan to divert the waters of Bear river for irrigation and asked congress for money The move was defeated but the Corinne populace thought up another plan They turned to Great Salt lake and in 1871 a sternwheel steamboat was built to navigate the lake and Corinne became a "port of entry" The boat was "The City of Corinne" 70 feet long with three cargo decks It made its first trip to Lake Point in 1872 wRh machinery for a smelter and returned with ore from Tintic and Nevada Curse of Corinne "The second boat the Kate Connor was launched shortly after but the 'curse of Corinne still held The 'City of Corinne did not pay and the 'Kate Connor' found her destiny on a mud bar in Bear river The 'City of Corinne renamed the "General double-ri- one outfit g wagon "Cow and sheep men used to fight" he explained "When the cowboys found - one of those things they'd burn 10-gall- on it' IT'S ROUNDUP TIME IN OGDEN THE BLOODY INJIANS I'd rather hear a rattler rattle rd rather' buck stampeding cattle I'd rather go to a greaser battle fold you" Successors life?!' Than— In-ji-a- ns Td rather eat a pan of dope I'd rather ride without a rope rd rather from this country lope Than — Than to— Than to fight— Than to fight the bloody In-ji-a- PIONEER MEMORIAL ART CO 3019 Dial Washington Boulevard t l-i- D III mm Daily and Sunday Passe nger Schedules Between Ogden and Preston Idaho i tember WaH an ' wf ' iR63 ' bouna ?Z ana two nor8es -- — Mm Commutation Fares Cents Llilo Hilcago Books I Cents per Hilc Special Sunday Excursions I Cent CUV- - mUies to tne bead loHt iront rossea iT roll's — gever iVd river nd south to clty " — At o city tore nrleham orth with " mile Jtlemenf orth of tc liveliest was tbe then M — WUlard W — t waB almost a th we c 77rus) rvober ol £w! the tfbt wmar° our next point cw it U From el and a — Was WUiaru cre at e entlre was Ogden n treet ht or of n8BU rinded by a ga was tout Qt on town nine tee fle mue me t ol tne vv w dg Cross Ogden JL --treams flowing ober Farmington M Bait to Vuch"place ee to see the emWcn wa9 beld and Bountiful av or "tn the ftn Cnurmi nce ot in the Tabernaci tWO r per Llilo - SPECIFY Utah Idaho Central Routing On All Your Orders Through Freight Rates With All Lines S - -t All-Ste- el GT73TL" ' T7!7h T7 K ill Free Pick-U- p and Delivery At AH Agency Stations Following Morning delivery on all carload and L C L between Cache Valley Points— Ogden and Salt Lake City freight-shipment- s Highball Service for Electric Trains Automobile Safety Busses 6914 OGDEN AND BRIGHAM ns vHn to the Oldest and Largest Monumental Concern in the — Intermountairi West Since 1875 BIEMORIALS OF DISTINCTION Than to— Than to fight— Than to fight the bloody hard-boile- : a Mr Streeter's pride as a cowhand seemed especially hurt when he saw a picture of a modern cowboy using what has come to be known as a sheep i Early cowhands also rode plain saddles without the front swells frequently seen today Mr Streeter said When rode a horse then you did soyoubecause you knew how to ride he said and not because you were fastened into your saddle by the swells "And I never rode a double-ri- g saddle" Mr Streeter added "I always felt that if a cinch broke I wanted to be off on the ground and not dragging around on The most picturesque and or personally assumed all obliga tions iginal character of Ogden's "goldDespite the setback he reen age"— the late 18S0's and early mained in Ogden and sent out 1890's— was William Hope (Coin) articles to newspapers all over the United States a year or two Harvey who died in Arkansas in 1936 after having run for presilater when the La Plata mining excitement broke This mine also dent of the United States In 1032 on an independent ticket played out The home of Coin Harvey still Though he bet on two failures his stands In Ogden at 2671 JefferHarvey was right in one of was son a reminder of the fantastie estimates of Ogden He among the first to see the Imepisode he promoted In the his- of tory Ogden portance of Ogden as a livestock In' 1888 Coin Harvey came to center Ogden from West Virginia Here Tower for Future he opened a law office and pro Harvey finally went to Chicago moted a real estate subdivision where he edited a magazine He started to build a showy resi"Coin" advocating free silver dence on the east slope of Little When his Ogden friends began Mountain a hill which rises from receiving copies of this publicathe flats far to the west of Ogtion they gave him the nickname den near the shore of Great Salt which will be found In the pages lake of history Mardl Graft Carnival Harvey eventually went to to live Monte Ne Arkansas In 1889 Harvey started promoto house a tower he built where tion of a carnival for Ogden modeled on the Mardi Gras of "objects and writings for archeolo-gist- s 20000 years hence He was New Orleans So effective was a vigorous man of 80 when this 'promotion and so far reach- 'still 1932 In he ran for president on ing his publicity that people an independent ticket flocked to Ogden from all over the nation He even succeeded in SQUARETOWN bringing a party from New Orleans including notables of the Plymouth In Box Elder county was at one time named Square-tow- n original Mardi Gras there because the first settlers A success in most ways but a built their homes on the corners failure financially Harvey's carof a square nival left him broke as he had L G L Freight Train leaves Salt Lake City at 12 noon Ogden 1:40 points p m and makes delivery same afternoon at all between Ogden and Preston Idaho - o i MOT i hp "CACHE VAIXEY ROUTE" Preston Idaho Logan Utah Cache Valley Points? 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