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Show ' t 1 mi ATRIP UPBIGCOTTON VlOOD. Visitiiig.tbe-Old-Mills Sights. A prospecting party visited Big Cottonwood Cot-tonwood canyon last week - for tho tloublo purrxso of doing a little prospecting, pros-pecting, and having n. pleasant outing, This U one ot tho finest, .n-nus in Utah for, ploaaure seekers, and contains inanyJutereating features. About tlio first thing of interest Is the plte of old.mlll O. or the haunted mfll It I sometime called. This is the first mill In Utah where a circular saw was line I, and tradition eay that some unseen power was In the habit of running tho mill at night to the terror of the mill hands . It is said that voices fpuld h. .plainly heard, and sounds 'a If aomo one chopping .wood, and by way ol, variety the mill would atop running wjill lliesaty was being filed. Tools wero also mis-laid some of which would be found lying in tho road below the m'll. .About three miles further up the cnvou la another old, saw mill known a will "11" lur is yther Enoch Davis ihe.wlfo-uiurdut used to work, lit houso iq. allll, standing but like Ita former opant It Is nearly a total wreck. r For the next Jew in)es the canyon is f Up and. iiarfow and enow slides are rUut In winter time. And aa we p-ed(d up tho canyon wo saw a nvwtxV of place where men luul been lajtMiaoned iu their cabin mid finally fyid by their tuoro tortunuto com---VcVia. Qli. nan, was buried in a J.tuljl for nveral qaya and when aaVlfj-.a)tlltlllrallv ami wAI. rA.ltiiabpvf Atlai.plsMn is a beautl-,M beautl-,M llta valley called Negro.flat, It happened abou. tho year l&W, a com-V7 com-V7 p(temitra went up tho canyon lor laMbor rather late Iu thn fall, and th anow fall o heavy In one night tbat.lhay found, themaalve .completely wowad. in; they attempted tp make lhflr,.wayv dpwn, the, canyon however Jbil,pon.f9.ui( iat,thls wns,linpoaalle -r)tj ,,ijbirwtom Tlio iitnatlon be-IW( be-IW( sar.lpus, vrlien ono p( them volunteered volun-teered to wade down the creek;' to the, uixt mill eoui throe wiles below nnd, negro teamster was determined to follow him, and after aeveral hovtra of' untol'd. mfferjllB snd hardshlpa the wrjlte wn rfcHd the mUl and gave h,-aUrw, hut tho, negro, DOflshed in thuiUllo valley., Tho, nex,t . spring a (ftkM young eamiter. Bought out the body ol -th dead. .negro and. procured, the akull, drovo up the canyon with hi gaatly find slicking on top of the bolster take of his wagon.. , iA-UltlaUrUiecup wq pass the dug-way dug-way whs W a drunkon. Irishman fell into. ah,cMtk.Md,.waa,drp.wQjome l(i years ,J0i ,,-,:NM- tho head pt the canj-on ia an pel ,w mill, know, as mill "E" hsr,is.whro the shingles for tho big Tabernacle In Salt Ijtko City were made InCSand 04; tho will Is now ia ruin and, .deserves the efl'orta of an aitist. About a half mile from tho old mill is Brighton lake. This Is one of tho nioa( beautiful locations that van bo found in thi -UQunUlnd. This, is tho, placo where President, Young and a company ol 9l.rita we.ro lpcatdl when nows was tecdved that, Johnsons army had left the Mieourfa, rlyer to como to ytah and exte-nlwato tho mormoim in 185S, but.ciyjlizatlon has brought a.rulghty change,; n l.otel h.ia been built, near Brighton Jake, it is about 100 ft. long by 40 wide, and U three stories high and connected by telephone with Alta and li'ark Ity and all pifrt of tho Ter-fltpr'. Ter-fltpr'. Some of the richest mine in tlie'Terrltory Ia situated near this lake but prospecting is out of the question an tjho country is taken up for 5 mies flrouWanli. held undi'rn U. S.. patent. ..AlUparjies, cputeinplatlpg a pUasure trip at the head of Cottonwood are hereby here-by advised tp bring titer own water and wood. The air ia frco. Wo wero in formed by an old miner that one man owuad'aetrlp of milling claims 5 miles U, length, and other parties own min-Ipg min-Ipg property nearly us large. Tuere are, uianopol tats among miner as well as other branches of h.UHliiebs. We discoveitd that the cllmnto Just two qnllti cooler at the head of the canyon l.bauitlaail.ehl. tJ.0p,pttr.return trip we weiu.ahowna (jrov of timber where, in. an early day Ik.cotfploof roen .with uiules .were Im-ilpyvd Im-ilpyvd getting out timber one very cold wlntyr.. Tho weather was so cold, in t, that when a man made a remark lohjs erroring tuulp the words would btffoaan mild us soon its they left his Upland the next spring when warm father cam thesa samo remarks were hfed put and the woids wero full of uttfrlRUbloJanguage. It is barely (Hbl th t Ui'l story Is not true, but :tlTt it tor, what It is .worth, t ' -ltusticator. |
