| Show ne Is eighty IT yearn forty five on tain main street k INN A A 71 t wa A 4 e X rg photo by W A adams richard i clar n D Squire 1 palk paik cites veteran carpenter quietly ed ills his eightieth birthday last monday bj b having photographer W A adams adama take his picture after which the llie well known and popular octogenarian comfortably lec le elined lined an 40 the alie old chair in ilia his old shop and smilingly received tile llie cong ratu eions and well wishes ot of many cit hs friends the handsome picture above will show his out of town friends ad just how he be looked on oil tile llie day lie he over his eightieth wile mile bone ou on ins his varied and sometimes tumultuous journey through I 1 ic fe while not as active as tile lay day lie he stepped into Morri morrisons sons place on oil 1 j lower malu alain street park acty more than forty five years ago lie is as liale hale and hourly hearty as lie he was in tho those c tar far away days and it if lis lie has his way about it cewill he will continue in the same old allo paDd and live in ili tile the same old nay away the coming forty forti five years as lie he lias has in the past heres hoping dick sketch ot of life and labors of mr squires miLs last week olive P F woolley durt burt of thui the deseret Ue seret news state staff was wai in our city the lady called called on mr air squires chatted with him tor foe au an hour or so 50 resulting in the following story which appeared la in iasi last sundays news i quant unique characters give to a town that flavor of 0 individuality that strong personal characteristics give to a man mail it is tills this tact fact that makes significant my recent acquaintance tance with R 13 squires ol of park city not only Is mr squires a personality worth orth w knowing lie he lii lb it beems to me the embodiment ot of the spirit that typifies that strange little city where he has haa spent the best part ot of his lite life i halt half way up the steep mal main street ot of this mining town I 1 came upon a little worn unpainted shop ro no legend over oven the door told me that this iva was the carpen carpenter tei shop I 1 was seeking but a glance inide convinced nie me and I 1 entered there just out of 0 the glare ot of the ell ms yet in such a position that the street was open to hla his view sat mr air squires dressed adequately but unconventionally a spotted kitten up tip j on hs hns knees he rocked leisurely lit in that low chair and watched the we life ol of the to toimi pulse back and ana forth b be P toie role his door yes lie he said 1 I guess I 1 know about tile the history ot of this town there are just six lett left here thai were here whee I 1 C came ame two ot of them wore were boys and he be proceeded to name the six co survivors of the fir first s t days ot of park city j and I 1 can tell you just ili licht many all and d who have been killed in lights fights or burned or killed by the railroad lit in this town forty years I 1 have lived right here willim alth n fifty feet of 0 tile the 04 alt hall ive sat in this dooray way and seen every important fight and fracas in the town for five years before that I 1 lived town down the road a brays nut but atler alter I 1 moved up bete there more excrement excie ment and equal to ills his boast lie ile began to name the and to recite the details ot of llie file brawls and melees that characterize the days and rights nights ot of a newly established town i liko I iko A page arom rom novel I 1 1 like a page from some novel of the gold days ran ilia his narrative with names and dates and abts of philosophy added to give the dema nhea touch ot or reali realism im see that billiard illard cue and he pointed to a cue 1 in n the corner that Is a relic ot of one fight debt and lie recited the details with the vividness ss ot of a bom boin story teller slowly slowly was revealed his bis lite life the hie life or a manof man ct action during tile tho early lays days or alf tile the west ile he interestingly belated that lie he was vas horn in ISing lio niton new york it the eaily in morning ol of august 3 his parents connected with gitil tho the first families of 0 that now thriving big city ile he lived in ili that city and worked around new boik bate I 1 the big lire fire iu in chicago oil in october 12 1871 when he lett left syracuse now new york v here he be was then nor i king for bilat CRY city to sos see how it looked with neaily nil all the buildings gone he minai remained tied in chicago following hs trade until march 17 agniv edg at council Cou nicil bluffs iowa just in time to take the last ferry erry boat that crossed the Aliss missouri ourt to Oni omaha alls the next train arriving going over the now new bridge spanning the liver the following month he went to sioux city iowa where he be on binam wood steamboat plying between sioux city and F fort ort bufford Bul tord after his third trip on this boat it caught lire fire and burned burnad up tip at the sioux city wharf in the tall fall ot of 1872 1372 1 be I 1 e shipped hipped on a steam boat lies failed called t tho far west a southern cotton boat plying between red river texas and new orleans ile he boarded the boat at sioux city and when but lorty forty miles ibrom that place tile the boat sunk stink it at pat fat wo we mans mails houd on the nebraska side of 0 tile the river the crew was rolled ashore and dick walked back to city lie ile winferd at this place and in may 1873 be shipped on tile the silver lake no 4 a fine lower river passenger boat this boat was bound for fort burford Bul tord and among its passengers gen oral cral custer buster and its his wire wife the geneval on oil his way to take command ot dr the troops which were massacred by indiana In lians in 1876 custer going to his death with tile the rest of the soldiers in talking about custer mr squires cR eyes twinkled twin kiell as he recalled tile the days be spent aboard ship then cuine came a general move westward the railroad rail load was sending its first leoler into til th s new country and mr Sl Si lulies ulles shipped from Olla omaha liall with the advance guard he built bunic finnk houses blacksmith shops stores he be worked at the many odan aind it ends that came up during every stop on oil si september 2 27 97 1873 lie ho reached livan slon tacio were he be says just three men thero there before him hi in stayed hero here tur for five years build 1119 anything and everything that tile llie WW li ceded edgag ug og in ill companionship panion ship with will the newcomers that each day brought enjoying afre to alir ill nill but there was still the urge to KO 90 on further slid and in february 1879 lie c clinio amo down into utah it was in those first exciting day after the JI anding ot of ore in fit tile the mountains ot of eastern utah ulah lie he tells ot of how a nnie all troll madway camped for the light in tile hills in the morning as lie he was hitching up his horses to go 90 on he saw something bright upon llie ground grousd mail alaa with anxiety and alid hope lie he took bits of 0 the ore to allt lake had it assayed immediately med lately followed tile beginnings of this important little town mr air squires eager to reach the scene of such activity b but it having at his command no horses horse walked the entire distance from evanston Ev angton to Co coalville alville where lie he was wag entertain ed it at the home ot of alma smith the next day he walked to manship wanship Wan War ship iship stopped at the homo home ot of robert young one of the ilia earliest settlers in the county and on the morning of oc february 1879 he landred land ted in 1 11 park city and liere here he lad had remained since that time ile he found the ilia rush already in p progreso ro gress sn along the side of the hill where here slain alain street now is a path had been beaten by the hurrying toll ceimo nis here and there were the rude shelters thrown up by men whose search tor for wealth left little time to miss the contorts they could not have the old sampson raille mine was already making the first crude beginnings and the ontario was vas digging out wealth found plenty to do in such a town mr squires found plenty to do he opened a little shop as a contractor worked on the railroad when it came and did anything that suited his taste and his ambli bioni I 1 perhaps it was this constant activity together with a natural frugality bality that enabled him to put by enough tot toi keep him during his old age when standing in his little carpenter shop I 1 asked him whether be he still worked he replied that a man anan who grew up with a town never had to wor work kIrt in his old age and suggested that there was enough work and enough money in a sev rt mining town to supply the wants of 0 a life time arid and yet mr squires although eighty years old the 3rd ard ol of august Is not idle while we gossiped a customer came tor for a saw that the old man had sharpened another man came for the key to a house w where here the carpenter had bad done a small repair job so its hs days even now DOW are nil full and useful on the shelves and tables and in the boxes and drawers of his little shop are to be found the odds and ends nails rasps door knobs knoba hinges binges casters tor for which his busy neighbors constantly rail call upon bim h m an and d here in ichi comfortable old rocker and his comfortable old clothes he be sits and watches the life of the town ready to make that life move a little more smoothly ready to laugh at the tun fun he sees ready to dream olf of the past and to prognosticate the future of the miners and other citizens |
