Show A SN ITCH OF THE E IRLI SOS IA 31 MILIARD ILLARD mr charles cahoon who Is well along in years kindly gave me some interesting information on the old times in millard county in the early 1880 s the railroad charlie says was finished tc to milford about 1880 and the nearest shipping point for ore from the fish springs mine was at oasis soi so the old Dese reters used to haul ore by team clear from fish springs across the auldy flat to the hillside by where joy is now then farther in the hills to the site V of t id smelter and finally after much hard work to the station for loading hisaya it usually took t ten days or moi biake the trip A man would put a enough 10 01 u g h horses to pull about 12 SO bowa V on the average parts of the road and when the team came to the bad stuff the outfits would stop double up or treble up land and a haul one wagon through then ja V all go back and get the next and eo so on oil until all were moved across the bad stretch he ile says the road just out of fish rish this way waa was so bad I 1 have seen so many horses put on a load that although the wagon sank to the hubs it would be pulled by main strength of horse flesh like a skid resting on the bolsters and box push ing up mud in front of it liike like a go devil until actually I 1 have seen the mud rise up and fall back over the dash into the box that stretch over the lowest place of the white valley wouldn t hold up a saddle blanket why it would even mire a moonbeam mr cahoon came to this county when he was 16 he is now 74 he has seen the rawest part of our his tory he says the roads began to get a little dryer there all the time as they were constantly being work ed on tor for betterment until finally the freighters could haul a loaded wagon clear through in good er the ore would be worth from a thousand to two thousand dollars a ton he ile remembers the smelter just a few miles out from deseret on what is called smelter knoll the freighters would go there sometimes camp over night tor for water they had dug a deep well the oil oll aban boned shaft of which can now be seen in ruins tris smelter t exactly pay at least not for long and went into neglect joy was founded named after a mr joy vice president of the packard motor co A smelter vaa mas even built up near the hot springs but all that is left of that now is some of the old slag dumpings charle hauled mail for a long time from deseret to callao out via trout creek creek etc and back by way of fish springs finally the ers built a road over a very steep place and came down this way in stead of doubling around the corner it was lust just all an empty wagon could do to get up this side but gosh how it could come down it loaded |