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J r c 5 0 iI j h i d Ii tM l' l v t c. c 4 i 1 I Mining Hopes C eU To Antelope By BEN BROWN BROWNEd BROWNt t Ed Note This series of articles articles articles ar ar- was first published in the I Clipper 30 years ago I Among those who homesteaded homestead homestead- ed lands on the island were George Georgc Frary his wife Alice Phillips and their four little children two girls and two boys IT WAS about the year 1890 that silver and copper had been discovered and there was some excitement caused by the discovery A number of people located claims claims and also took up homesteads Some of these were David Leach William Frew George H. H Payne Daniel Daniel Dan Dan- iel C C. C Adams Fred S S. S Luff E E. W. W Senior George I I. I Frary and others There is a story called Lost Trails to Fortune att attached ched to every mine A rich vein of areis ore are ores is s discovered It is followed with care and with fervent zeal Hope of oC great riches illuminate illuminate il- il I luminate the mind The work I for days weeks or maybe months Then suddenly I a fault is found along the vein A FAULT is one of the great I curses of mining It is caused i by jy some convulsion of nature which bursts through ore bearing bearing bear bear- ing veins turning it sidewise or upside down and sinks it itself itself itself it- it self again somewhere into the thc bowels of the earth leaving fragments of the mains maint body scattered on or near the sur sur- face The prospector picking the fragment soon loses it again and if he cannot trace it to the place where nature tossed it he might just as well pack up and go home This just about tells the story of the mining excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment on Antelope Island BUT COMING back to o 0 u r story Mr Frary full of ambition ambition ambi ambi- tion and hopes that some da day fortune would smile upon him and his family worked day by day on his homestead or at his mining claim while his wife Alice took care of their little three roomed hut but and watched over their little flock It was a happy little family that gathered around th the e hearth each evening when dad came in from work But alas dearest friends sometimes must part and so it was with this thus little group THE for very good reasons forsook their home on the island for a time and moved to Syracuse Davis County where they could be among friends when the threatening storm should burst upon them In due time their expectations were realized a child was born and with her came all the joys and sorrows that accompany such occasions Time Tune passed by and md Mrs r lv It t w. w l 2 y i il t l s 1 4 l lr r t s 0 t Y ro rok r. r t k Frary was apparently well and r went with her family back to I their home on the island But shortly after a large fire w was s I seen by their friends from this thi side glaring up close to their home It was a signal for help MRS FRARY whose health had not been geed since their return was taken worse and her husband realizing her condition condition condition con con- had s sent nt out the SOS It was a very pathetic c scene that greeted those who answered the call Before their arrival Mrs Frary had been allured to brighter worlds and led the way Goldsm Goldsmith th Under the direction of Bishop David Cook services were held at the home on the island Many relatives friends and neighbors crossed the lake to tobe tobe I be in attendance All that remains remains remains re re- re- re mains to be seen now if perchance perchance perchance per per- chance someone passes that way is the foundation a few boards scattered around the spring of water and the one onetime onetime onetime time well beaten path that leads to it two or three shade trees and close by the lonely grave IN 1903 White Sons Co sold their interest in the island to Ernest Bamberger He and J J. J E E. E Dooly united their interests interests interests inter inter- ests and organized what is known as the Island Improvement Improvement Improvement Improve Improve- ment Company with John E E. E Dooly as president and general manager This new company continued for a time as their predecessors had done in the cattle business but later stocked the island with sheep NOTHING unusual happened until 1920 when Sen J. J W. W Thornley and Herbert Barnes of Kaysville leased the island and took over the manage manage- ment The contract drawn up between these parties was so arranged as to make the tre Island Improvement Company copartners part co ners with Thornley and Barnes Company This newly organized group was known as the Buffalo Is Island Island Island Is- Is land Livestock Company with Sen Thornley as us manager Mr 1 Thornley augmented the herds herdson on the island by taking thousands thousands thou thou- sands of sheep and cattle there from their ranches in Davis County Besides numer o 0 t i. i s sheep and cattle it is estimated ed there were more than head of buffalo THE ISLAND Improvement Company had planted and fenced over acres of alfalfa and hundreds of tons of hay were put up each year to take care of their herds when feed feedon on the range became scarce In order to better take care of i the sheep and cattle on the now overcrowded over range this new company decided to reduce the buffalo herd Although the Island Improvement Improvement Improvement Improve Improve- ment Co had taken care of all al orders that came in the size of their herd had greatly in in- in creased A new and novel idea suggested itself which if successful suc sue would reduce the herd here and also swell their bank ac ac- ac- ac count SHORTLY AFTER in the leading sports magazines there appeared in glowing headlines the story of the wonderful herd of buffalo on this untamed desert desert desert des des- ert island inviting people to come and hunt This alluring invitation appealed strongly to sportsmen far and wide The idea of big game hunting was thought of only as being in 10 remote remote remote re re- re- re mote Africa but here was a chance to hunt and shoot almost al aI most in their back yards No sooner was the sensational sensation sensation- al advert advertisement e c d than letters of inquiry came pouring in from all over the United States and these inquiring I ing mg parties I copy a few 01 or these inquiries to show the reality of it But first let me nee relate the story of another famous famous fam fani- ous buffalo hunt copied from Pres Wilford Woodruffs Woodruff's diary of 1857 1817 |