Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-08-10 | Page 10 | In the Days of the Pistol Shot

IN THE DAYS OF THE PISTOL SHOT Explaining the history of Pipe SprIng national monument Union Pacific bulletin for tor August gIves this paragraph paragraph- i The spring spying took Its lis name fromA from j A feat of or of the fa- fa fanous fa ous Mormon scout Jacob Ham Ham Ham- Hamblin bUn blin lamblin 1 sent by Brigham Young to visit the Hopi Ropi Indians In 1858 camped by Ih the spring with lit party To settle a heated die cUs dis he over marksmanship be sh t the bottom out of or hiS pipe at 20 yards without breaking the howl bowl Pipe spring flowS at the rate ot of otono one ono hundred thousand gallons gallond a 1 adal dal da At this shady hady oasis In tM the tt plain the camps ot of otman many mani man of ot the tha t were pitched It lies les southeast ot the Vermilion cliffs and ft II few lew miles west of o Ka- Ka Kallab Kt nab canyon c which is tributary to t the Gland Giand can ean canon on thirty miles south In earlier days ot of the west wh when n pioneering was wai at its ri vero ero many crack shots and expert expel horsemen But the day of ot the gun and or of orthe l the horse horsa Is passing and at atthe atthe the traps will ou find the fellows fellow w ihen hen can compare with the shot of c t r long a agO so