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Show j ERIG1IAII YOUNG'S CARRIAGE. First Vehicle Owned by Fhor-h-n G i ing- to Pieces in Butt-. I A story is going the rou.eis - ; -. j press about Brigham Young's r., j riug-: The c ity of Butte. M-.-.-j . . . I the distinction of having ii ., . i its streets until the i-.-h..-1- -v : . I use1." illness as a strc-t hoi.. ; 1 gra.-es a scrap h";ip in t!i,: :i I nietrcpolU Salt I .:! stK! U. .. hack wliit h v. as also Brina to- V I otate'y carriage. It. too. a . : going to the sera;, pile j According a s:.ry in i! ! rnn.i Record, the -'ist"d and -remnants of Bri-'.at-i Voirii; . that once trim. lied t! rouyi :, street:-, of Sail Lake fit,-.. : scrap heap in the be. :: y.ir.t .. s table in the south -m pa rt It was a fine hack a:el ih- -r y in the City of the S.:mM. ere! - second-hand stuff which .o!it ' ' f J-Jalt Lake sent up t- be sold. "Charles Palmer ,,i,;;ine d t one day down in front i. feed store, in Park street, w!.-Curtis w!.-Curtis block now stand.;, and ! hack to the highes-t biM- r." the Montana paper. "Th.v- v era! men ot wealth ho - a.-: hack, but their limit vva it-. ..it Finally J. A. -Murray : ' i JriTfi. "Fat Jack.' the veteran e ,, hack drivers of Butte, and Top: then a hack driver, now a tudi. at once opened a spirit.. 1 .-.eit--r tie- temporary possession o!" t!. tied hack. Mays was i ; 1 1 1 . u .. t ?! a month for the ue ..t' it. !.w .1 outbid him. and he c, ;;!-.! !;;. . Murray in gold every day !'..; use of it. w hich offer was a, c. or- ; "Jack paid a day for it ;'. ; -years, or. in all Sio. :;:.!, which. ;t . be noted at a glance, was a. good return on an investment f . . "Tom Mays then rented the that Fat Jack had turned into a ? 4 mine for the owner, and for re . months Uncle Tom Mays sat upoe ; lovv seat und r the roof of the pint... cab and collected man v. inar.v fares. "The hack was made at Briiih.i Young's ord- r in Ml in rh" ast .,- cost $.-.(i(u It was carried across r : plaints from Chicago in sections freight wagon::, and its arrival at ;. Young residence -as marked by ni'.-grateful ni'.-grateful expression on the rM;t ,, Mesdame-s Younjr. who bad been we'k-irg we'k-irg all the years since lv,n to ch'i'.'i and to market. It was one of the ri- hacks, if not the first, that came : Butte, and it was the first pie,, junk that .Charles Palmer sold at au---tion in Butte." |