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Closest town to the north is Wendover 70 miles to the southmiles away Eighty-thre- e west lies McGill Nev and 142 miles to the northeast is Tooele the county seat Even autos with smooth pavement and h ' r - 2 5 4 t I I e high-spee- e d - 0 clit 1 s e a -- Nell Murborger Humboldt and on one of his return trips to Salt Lake in 1855 he took leave of the river route and headed east across the mountains from Carson valley Made ft Bet ' 1)- 5 LI I a Improvident traveler lacking both In food and funds need only appcal to he tsympathy to have his larder restocked and his shivering progeny reciothed all without pa ment Periods of heavy travel saw such gratuities mount to as much as 1500 a year but so iar as know'lli Major Egan never protested his wife's genA erosity Indian Trouble Began In April IS60 Deep Creek was momentarily lost in a cloud of du3t as the first rider of the Pony Express thundered up to the station threw himself aboard a fresh mount and pounded away on his eastbound course It was an event which provided ample food for conversation until the following month when the Indian troubles began Not that there had not been plenty of Indian troubles farther west in Nevada and to - difficulties attended Major Egan's passage and his arrival in the city of saints found him so enthusiastic over the new route that he offered' a wager: To prove the advantages of the Egan trail he would follow its course aliel ride' a mule from Salt Lake ye in 10 days—an accompliShCity to rnent seemingly impossible In September of that year the doughty major proved his claim leaving Salt Lake on the 19th of the month and arriving in Sacramento on the 29th The ride was made by way of the watered valley which Egan had logged as Deep Creek George Chorpening piemeer mailcontractor ' 111741 on the run eventually became ) convinced of the advantages offered by Egan's 4 "-route and in October 1658 began the estab- le:: Ety-'''''' 1shing and equipping of relay stations and forts along the new trail By all stages of the Overland Mail were clatter- r irs ing over the new road and in their wake came er-t-t7 and trains freight wagons emigrant Meanwhile Egan had become associated' with Chorpening as superintendent of the the northward but Deep Creek always had Salt division of the Overbeen aingularly free of depredations Major land and he and his several stalwart sons Egan was well liked by the local Indians were operating stage stations at Ruby valley 'of whom he had doctored for various Nevada territory and at Deep Creek which many ills and had sought to convert Considerable was known as the Egans' "home ranch" numbers of them worked for him in the fields Early Truck Farm and around the stables Others lived largely Here on irrigated valley lands tilled by as they had lived since time immemorial holdIndian laborers the Egans raised hay and ing their antelope and rabbit drives roasting ants and gathering crickets and pine nuts for grain for mail stations less favorably situated likewise supplying their tenders with vegebread tablea and potatoes from a huge garden' and And then the picture began changingWithwith fresh beef and mutton out warning a roving band of Indians attacked Twenty cows were kept) for milking Here was brought Deep Creek station on May 28 1860 killing one of the first threshing machines in the terone MAII and running off a herd of horses With the death of Chief Letitherhead in July ritory and a small sawmill wai installed for the milling of logs exit in Eight-Mil- e 1860 it was presumed—by the War departand Fifteen-Mile ment at least—that Indian troubles in the canyons and hauledto the ranch by ox team With riding range herding sheep territory would immediately cease and all breaking and training and shoeing wild horses troops assigned to guard the mail stations I were ordered back to Camp Floyd I Few- ---- r-- cre 1 r-- t owe' - "to' c0:slit----- l or 1 4 a 1s - "1113 - (7 such distances don't encourage casual jaunts to town for a finger wave or a banana split but to further complicate the situation these roads connecting lbapah with the outside world are e not freeways but the sort shown on as fragile thin lines keyed maps highway six-lan- "unimproved" Firit Called Deep Creek In view of her present isolation it is difficult to imagine this old village aa the most important supply point on the Overland stage line between Salt Lake and Carson valley Her dusty main street if it could but talk would tell a story embracing every phase of frontier life from the chilling war whoops of attacking Indians to the pounding hooves of Pony Express and the creaking wheels of ox- drawn emigrant wagons To Goshute Indians of the region this valley between the mountains had long been a favorite campsite known to them as lbapah- -water" Major "the place of Howard Egan pioneering his new wagon route from Salt Lake to Sacramento probably d:d not know of the old Indian name but he decided upon the valley as a desirable relay station for mail stages and entered it in his to log as 'Deep Creek" This name it ahcient the all ita historic years bear through' Indian title having been restored only in com- I deep-dow- 5e 8 'as RI i:116 — wammi:-It in I 1 c) 1‘ tilii 1 rwr5 Pi at ) - ypt Lh The Egan trail in its day was as 'impora development as jet propulsion would be to the civilization of a' century hence —Viwagon train of rtually every California-bounthe late 1840s and early 50s had followed the Humboldt river whose tortuously winding course led them far out of their way in endless miles of weary unproductive travel the Naillion Fran a majnr inPt Ate 1!Ao vetcrit rulpiny 411 Lasnoraann Salt Lake troLr and wax Kinkead ectle to the rnast engaged in drimr Utah lie Iner xvhere bsetter markta were avalaWr d ' olavoeftn had felt that crcaaing P rl MrT ttah terntnry shorter (If Ixestern feARt must be avatlable than that affnifted by the etrcultous I ' I ilV114Ilk - r'- i -- tant ) g 111 Searched for Trail rrt Humilities - Ili paratively recent times I Li -- - :'- - ii:jr7--- ''-''''---'- 41 : ''t ' J 4'-" 6 plowing planting Irrigating harvesting and having no ranch between Salt Lake and Carson valley was busier or ao well maintained - In- addition tr) ranrhing' and 'freighting ar- - drivers and pcssengers pr4vide4 lodging if desircd 4 operated Peep Creek's first general store stocking everythink from diapers tn dried applem Whether much profit ittendert the latter venture is'open to question as Mn woman Any Egait wu a kmdly optn-hearte- d ' :' -- i' T i 0 - ' i I fs I 4 i ' !"0 ' ''' t ! 1 - 4' ' ' - "'' ' ' :: : ::-r- 4 i 4 ' i:4 110 ?5'i ' --- tv:s 1ti : :''r ''-i: ' ri ''1 : ) - 1t : 71:i3dfik-44lk Many of lhapah's earthen-roofe- pear - ' i 1 i L '- '!' 4144 'i "11 : it i I- la' Tr'IT ''' - I 1 ') 1 ' 1 ? - rs':4 ''' - ' :::'i4'- " 4 i ' 4: 41 ' 4 ' ''' 4 ' 4 17-:1- 4 ' t44: - 44---- 7 "iiis 4- '- ' ( t 1 ?!'' - ' A-1' --1 - 4 ' k '')'')7?:'4II:!P4 ': 4 li44144 44 7:1 wqr"-'7- ‘‘4 ''' '- 1:!er--44 t - : ''1--1 !1ili'- iF :4:71ii:i :x Lt4't' i7174-1e- i t 1A104t' '' 'i: k: 1 e eCX:V- - : i '' t :4 'a i1'' ' 4 ' 2114'' 1 t 41'' 14 ' t: - '3:4" :" 44 ' log cabins ap- to have been d enough 1 ' ' :: 7'' '"'k 1 3 I 441- ' ' ' : 1 1:‘44''Viit 44- '7: i it 'e - ' ''::- 11iv i 04 - :::: ''- i4 ':All !‘i-' 1' 4iill'I44--IA:f!-':- ''i: I- - ' o'leV:u ''il'i p '' ' 4' ' ' i " v ' ' IrrIP74 1 '" !c' '' e s7' "' e it - i: ' qX ::" i ' : - I 0 i :: T —' ' 1 ' t' ! 4117'1 bt 1 71 446 41ii s '''l LA' t 44 among the Mitt titructuret built by Maj rgats In 1850s hut local residents say they're later Cooled To the Indians this appeared as an unparalleled opening and on Aug 12 Deep Creek station again was a ttac ked and another man shot Troops were hastily recalled and in the ensuing skirmish 17 members of the raiding party were slam With this retaliation Indian hostilities cooled noticeably but once again troops were assigned to guard the stations By July 1861 the Overland line was operating daily mail coaches through Deep Creek and with completion of the transcontinental telegraph in October of that year a new telegraph office was added to the growing cluster of log buildings in the little pioneer town All these budding signs of progress however did not mean that the Indians weren't still among those present As troops were withdrawn from the frontier 'try augment T'nion fore( a in the Civil viar the themselves in on the game They Atta4ked Again On March a taidirg party at863 tacked Eight-Milstation 'eight nitleA vi est of Deep Creek) lulling the cook and young 22-1- e hostler stripping them naked and horribly mutilating their bodies Arriving at the station before the Indians had departed "Happy" Harry Harper veteran stager took one look at the scene of carnage whirled the eastbound coach back upon the road and laid his 141oot In blacksnake across the backs of his hors the running fight which followed the driver watt Nvas slain a passenger John Livermore shot in the head and the reeling coach anti animals were puttied Into Deep Creek by another Passenger aging Judge Gordon Mott Nevada's candidate to congress Livermore miraculously survived "Happy Harry" wasburied in his working clothes in the little graveyard a half mile east of Deep Creek station and the cook and hostler were Interred in the yard at Eight-MilPlanned a Raid fear-craze- d e W R Simson another driver wee shot within a few miles of Deep Creek on May 19 18630 and in the same attack a ioldier-guarWW1 wounded Two months later a scouting party of soldiers came upon an encampment of poaceful Indiana south of Simpson's- Springs and proceeded to massacre the entire group Returning including every woman an4 childfrom a hunting expedition to find his ramp destroyed and his people wantonly slain the old chief—always before friendly toward the vvhites—rode off to enlist the aid orhis wifeio people the Goshutea Together they planned a retaliatory raid Victim of their wrath WaS Canyon station 12 miles of Deep Creek At the time of attack five of the half dozen men assigned to the station were at breakfast in the company wtOle NVilliain Miry hostler whit dugout ocUrrying a horse in the yard The first shot broke Di leyss ankle and when he attempted to flee down the canyon it fusilade of shots laid him low The other men were picked off like day pigeons as they emerged from the dugout During the entire affray not a single shot was fired by the soldier guards who incredibly had gone to breakfaat unarmed !pay ing their weapons at the stable where they slept! Di ley's body WW1 thrown on the woodThe others were stripped pile and burned bind scalped One soldier who was possessed of a luxuriant black beard but was bald had hut chin "scalped" rathOr Itltan his hair After 'looting the station of 'everything removable the raiders set fire to the remainder Rut for Riley whriso charred bones and ashen wero given token burial in the atation yard all the other victims ere taken to Deep d - stages Shorn of his chief outlet for ranch products Major Egan turned hie attention toward development of several mining pmspecta in vicinity of the station At one time he could have sold his mining interests for $50000 but when his partners insisted upon holding for more the result was financial ruin Promised connections with the Central Pacific railroad were not forthcoming and the ore proved too low grade to enable profitable Dollar by dollar the shipment by wagon entire substance of the Deep Creek ranch was poured into the mines and little came back With nothing more to hold him in Tooele county the old pioneer removed to Salt Lake City in 1875 There he J7pecame a member of the police department and a deputy sheriff and following Brigham Young's death was appointed a special guard at the grave a post he held until his death in 1878 ow ow ow tN'ith end Of the stage era and departure of its founder Deep Creek rapidly became a forgotten village where weeds crept into the streets and winter gales blew unheeded For a few years early in the current century it horse-draw- n N 70 AA160Ns -- at V k biwklis-:114po- V 11Kgan Ruined It was the last minor raid in II 10ARPI fnnttntiri to plind through Prep hen Cretk untd tWi (1 the wrote fin4 to the ere vt racilic mi1l-00- rii1letii -- - -- 0'400:70 96F1 k 1-- 61 to - ke cl - IN s -- ifiep111-i"--- '3) o: f: ia 1 -1 - P' - 1-- J I:i ' — r'? N - It — tom v4INAIL44 regained something of ts former importance when completion of the Lincoln highway again sent travelers coursing through its dusty treets and provisioning in its stores Even this resurrection was to be short lived subsequent rerouting of the highweiby-- ! cross-countr- St passing the town by 25 miles Today the'Only reminders of this brief hour of glory are a few old black and orangeroad signs still bear "Lincoln highway!' Ang the designation -r the etaborate hiqtq-irn-t marker f- stagre !emorAteS thiN 34Ae Ut 114 rov (ompletely obbteratci a stranger stNtion might pass through the peaceful streets of present-dathispatt without ever knowing thst brave thls was historic Deep Creek of Utah's youth men died fighting in tho-do- M3 Sunday Novamber 26 1933 'o '044 g im 4 $ By record-smashin- 0 e -- - - i 9 - 'ev""1"rikpiitot!r:: I i |
