Show from E 06 john king the big cattleman of Escalante and und boulder haell aa wibur aly ally met with wath many elpe rincey but none other to compare I 1 with one that happened bil the boadman trail king hati ap I 1 cozy home in n E Es s and a ranch well stocked at bould boulder 0 r this settlement occupies a fe itlie galley ten maled loner andrix and six miles wide on a creek that drains abu hward into Escala tito creek and benco into tho the colorado near jhc thc line this isett lern lent is 10 rn miles lies southwest of green rive 1 and equally df siance from moir I 1 vale the of afi the arto granda san Peto branch Bool ierg 0 i also thirty 61 ftc nort northe henAt ot 61 escal ante also an inland friland point buyrn th er the commercial center 0 of f 13 alstern e r n ganfield county the road li not only indirect but betit it isalio is alao sol poor that that tho the enterprising ti izen s in ta taking kingIn in such art articles acles 0 ces sary to culture a as a planos pianos 11 chiv hiv N to walk beside the wagon anti and h 1 it on the rock ledges while a th ceaba ing machine has to bo be steadied 4 with guy ropel escalante ISse afante and boulder would have been bean only little over of half as ala far distant by a more direct dilute ute but dea deadman man canyon about ml way was considered fabj e py Y frequent west any on wall could blvd but the cast wall V ute barrier to man or behill q mr oard n with a prick jaimi b r camped cne night in tile tho q chuu and the next morning agai ag ram 1 ii P alj to see hf companion in af eastern aall wall by fono boil d v n tha gait and thu a burro h hobbled a problem that had boffl r en A 4 en cor years 4 even rafter such auch work as ifie the would use the trail regularly felt they could 94 expend could nat be consides consi considered dex a safe one at the bottom if of the canyon one can lookup dooh looh up and sea feet above a yellow hiie whose boughs extend over the tee f r abyss and it is 13 anything but rea reals S suring to learn that in in ascending he must swing back on the canyon wall between his fits present position and that pine 6 although no human has been lost on this trail the bones of man many horses are seen at the bottom of IA the gorge mute mementos me menton of the t e faithful animals which tried to fol foila ow their on the sloping ledge ledga on which in places ste steep ep i ascent or descend must muse be made one man m n in hastening ha to the bottom to learn the fate of a caddle horse found that it was vs alvesi dive divested sied ed of both saddle and bridle by t the impact and was desern I 1 on one of kings trips oven tai the boulder tra trall the ledge was waa icy 10 and although his saddle horse lied had been sharp shod before starting he himself wore a pair of on which the corrugated soles had 1104 been worn smooth Dis dismounting IT as usual for the fearlo fearsome me ledger ledge ha cautiously proceeded loading leading the horse by ae the bridle suddenly without t t A warning 1 ki tulip P n fa I 1 A ped e nd min him a and n bover r over th the AL r 7 precipice r I 1 c he e went dangling above the hot bottom torn his only hope was his hold on the briddle rein before reeling e eling the ch check eck of the rein relates kib king 1 I apet ice all the feeling af 0 f 6 death it h at ai the bottom 1 I 1 of the canyon av fortunately the thrown up his head hlad to off offset t the shook else he also alio have gone I 1 over civer the briw brink of bi the pral precipice pice let leto one e imag ini ina 1 iche if e cv cay the feeling of n man suspended in such n Iosi position tion ilia his back abne to tile the icy wall carefully king turned to face the bodae and pulled himself up lie he was able to grasp tile the horses hoists front foot hu then pulled hibst lf if ut ul until lie he gained the stirrup his confidence in aten fast steed had risen to the point that lie he risked his h is own footing no barth pr cr but tile the horse at arico the deadman trail while tile the most dangerous d part liar t of this route is unfortunately not tile the only point of danger fer the cro crossing saing of sand band creek and sand hollow are ae also treacherous and on the pine creek hill it Is necessary for an anan an clial rial to brace itself and slide down on its ita haunches mules espee especially i ally become adept at El iding down the rocks in that fashion at numerous floods have scooped out largo holes in the sandrock and these are termed tanks by tho the locial stockmen stoc kmen vien who to good use for watering purposes furdos king who keeps a largo laigo flock of hens heni at the ranch packed two 2 bushel sacks full of eggs in ottis and loaded them on a pack lulal mulo for transportation to escalante I 1 again it ft was winter wint er and the in ule not BO well shod lost his feet down the mountain sido he went a hundred and fifty or two hundred yards struggling to regain Ws his footing but without avail finally he struck op on prie one othe tanks ll 11 some 20 feet incline inq and broke chelce presuming that the multi mule ggs dead kink king started to the saddle alfe iha aved signal of iff aie et faid 1 r 1 a sli rt jime was able d it did ric not t provo injured but tt ff me ai alf i lf tw efi effs q i A JA 9 huab alumn an th the powell foieri used of powder and with i As i ivl 9 end therall at lic most at dangerous a lovel level pathway oi of or more no one will this th 1 s movement mo foreso reso so than the mail carrier vv this route atul pack animals jn in carding the boulder mail parcel post and all prior to july boulder enjoys two malls mails a week but on account of tho the parcel post bu business sineas bids were so high that tile the i department reduced its frequency to weekly service |