Show THE tn INTEREST TOUCH US IA couitt 4 the bad lands of the san raphel swell are interminable gullies hills galore bluffs that look all alike no water and juat just the p ace tor for a hide out of a gang of desperadoes and arid that it was such is proven by the tiame paine it got of robber robbers s roost one day Char charlie liel was out in the hills with a riding pony and a pack horse behind when sud denly without any warning joe Z popped from behind a rock with a 45 winches cheser er leveled at charlies breast and brusquely said tal e the outfit charlie ml ul right jo I 1 il be looking for yeh yell and with that simple warn ng the one got down the other got into the vacated saddle and rode off with charlie a looking fo tor the op port unity to even up next year charlie was out in the swell wh in he glimpsed in the dis tance quickly hidden by the tortu pus defile a man coming toward him on horseback leading two nica pack animals by a rope charlie secreted himself and when the other m as abreast him rose and bald said J 11 take tha lead string joe charlie got back his own mount his own pack horse and one extra tor for interest nothing further came of it with an even score well they could al ways work in a team agin the other feller couldn coulden t they and did JOHNSON S ARMI COMES IN it would be unhistorical to say that johnson s army came into emery county but it does come into the store etor just the same in the defiles of the he bad lands so cut up as to be a rumble jumble the soft earth wears with erosion which the streams have carried into the gulf of california As samuel killpack says B en fen almost a bushel basket tot bf earth taken out 0 here well on the floors of the washes bigger ones still sticking last fast 14 in the soft clay of the side walls are innumerable spheres of rock vary ing in size all the way from a couple of inch is in diameter up to over six reeta it is very interesting to see a round ball of stone on the surface so interesting that I 1 took a photo of woodrow killpack eighteen stand ing beside a big one nearly as tall as he and off in the distance bigger ton on Is partly rolled down the slope I 1 took home two of the smaller ones about eight inches in diameter which lie ile in front of the chronicle office and when I 1 am asked what they are I 1 say they are cannon balls that johnson s army shot oft off in echo canyon and they fell in em ery county TM tha things are concretions or geodes usually beginning from a crystalline core around which it Is built in a precess but little known 1 broke one open to see what it look ed like and it exactly resembles a petrified watermelon water enter butch Cassi cassidy dyt al avrom hom many know as roy parker there was a robber robbers s roost there all right no mistake carpenter came in on pay day to give the miners of the utah fuel co their wages deputies rode on the engine to guard it the usual crowd was lounging around the rail in the street near the office and three hor ses tied to it which dian didn t attract any attention in that town just as carpenter was to ascend the stairs leading to the sec see and and story a man shoved a 45 into his ribs and took the swag one man was then beside him armed and it was seen that the third accomplice had gotten on his horse and had the other two horses ready for their rid ad ers butch rode oft off with the loot with buit but a shot being fired As he start ed oft off it is said he carpen ter and asked him to come again A former deltan told me less than twelve years ago that butch was still alive on the straight path and that he had call id at this man s house maxwell was killed As I 1 rode past a house on the out skirts of my seat compan alon on said that house was built by who was a partner of lott smith guess you ve heard of lott sure and so had johnson a army lott turned em into inta a winter ot of roat likel napoleon retreating from from MOB afa s cow row all their stores burned all their cattle run oft off a thousand mil es from nowhere and a hard winter coming on and yet he did it with out losing or killing a man sheer nerve and pluck and generalship and the will to do showing the oth er fellow he t kick back or he d had daylight thru his vest N I 1 his carcass would teed feed the yes I 1 d heard of 0 lott and his tory says johnson a s army had too I 1 in blue cut A few years ago the road was changed and a big cut made in a soft blue hill has the name on the map of the thel blue cut As they excavated they began to uncover fossil shell fish exactly like oysters a shell an imal the shells being quite ribbed henry D hansen brought me two from there a couple of years ago which are now in my case and the other week when I 1 was over to emery county mr earl N hills had some on exhibit in his collect ion ton geologically they are of fair ly IY a late period cretaceous I 1 am told an oil well studded in southeast of rochester on a hill top tap down and then leaving the casing in poured cement into the hole and went way but keep up the lease a good indication no one there but who teella feels that oil was discovered another oil well Is farther down in the bad lands and around in the mussed up labyrinth of mazes Is a copper mine and such roads and dicu di cular larl and what a place to be caught in in a cloud burst |