Show Wi W is jIG THE GREAT f OUTDOORS r. r By By Stan Stain Taggart A sure cure eign o ot of spring We e ran onto tnt 83 8 year old year oid M Mrs MN Jennie Surprise Sur I ot of Matt Thorn Thom price prise grandmother i ion son Eon on the ike ll o other r day She was wad was on on her Y wa sra t to Croydon making one OM of her iier er tr weather fair er visits t to grandson MattI Matt I 1 iO love lore to drive and to go places s pint sited pint It t Mrs MM Surprise e said Bald Ill be at home there in n Bountiful riM not thinking of going any any place Then Thon the next thing 1 J Ih w Im I'm in my C car r and off rt for fot Ogden g en or or Amerl American an Fork Pork or 1 1 Croydon Grandma really does Joes es get I around well w Matt Matl agrees agre I considering that she used to b be an Invalid confined to o a wheelchair In a rest reat home One Ono day grandma got the notion notton that she ehe wanted a car Mother told her that shed she'd have to learn to walk tires first So go grandma I overcame her arthritis got up and started walking again and again and I now she drives her own 1939 Chev Its Ito brake and clutch pedals are built up so that she can reach them and an thick extra cushion enables her liar to see jlee over the steering steer 1 ins ing g wheel Not only does she enjoy getting get ting around Mrs Surprise says th that t she ahe especially likes to drive down In the middle of S Salt lt La Lake where City City where the traffics traffic's i Ii fi fic's the heaviest a e Another spring eign Echo citizen citi cUt zen Mark ci can can n be seen seen out outon outon outon on his reg regular highway hikes If It Iff you f u top stop for tor a fellow walking d down wn Echo ho Canyon say say and ay and d h he tells yo you no no thanks th that t hed he'd just justas as eoon walk c i well that's Mark Marli Moran s Jim Murdock knows darned Y well th that l springs spring's p I gS g'S arrived rr v. v Kids I S Shave have been shooting up and the in tiia at over near where he works works and and Jima Jim's be been n stray etral I lead ad right along long with the chucks 1 I S S a Moki Mac Ellington came up Weber Canyon last week end and looked over the river He covered 18 miles ilea of our oun muddy W Weber ber In a canoe three years year ago floating down as far farj as a. Peterson and Peterson and thinks that It will be Just fine f for r his 18 boat races planned In July Moki Mac came to Utah from bt o over over r 29 l. l years s ago Since then hes he's logged titles on Utah's rivers I I 1 think this Is state hoe hae more to otter than any other the veteran river runner tunner said last week seek And that's why Im I'm here M Frank Prank Allred Anred Chief of the Weber Web- Web er County Sheriffs Sheriff's J Jeep ep Patrol let brings us up to date dale on Utah's o search and re rescue cue groups I Therell be a state wide state Jeep Patrol convention held heldI here In Ogden next May 13 14 I and 15 Frank reports At the big convention in Las Vegas a few weeks ago we learned learn ed that the average state has about four Jeep pO posses We expect around FIFTEEN of ot them them from from Utah alone alone to to have j lives at our Ogden convention I Also some county sheriffs who intend to form search and rescue organizations in the future Will probably be there w While walking along the narrow nar r row rocky Sharps Cooper Cooper sharps sharp's Canyon Cane Can anyon an- an yon ridge last deer fe r season leason we spotted art an al' odd looking stone atOne laying in the trail Picked It it up up It was about boIK the size and shape of ot your index finger and was Ya a avery avery avery very dark green e n. n Along the entire length of of ot otone one aide elde of it were par parallel par cuts cuts These grooves grooves plainly made by human hand were about an eighth of an inch ap apart rt They were worn thin around the the center enter of the piece We asked naked Indian expert expert ex ex- pert just exactly yh what what this hunk co of rock from the the the- ridge aib above ve Round Round Valley happened to be beIt beIt be It happens to be an unusual and valuable ble Indian artifact he said sald Your stone Is I. mica schist of number number io four r h hardness s. s ome ome Indian once once- used It It-a. It as a a d. d fett fens i or good luck luck ck piece its it's worn rn I t the middle le because ec ecu u e elat lat thata where It wag W wa 1 tied onto onto a hunting 1 II bow i it t WAS i. i it found toun on the very top pf th the mO mountain t Well J rather at att t than tet tr travel v through though rough rouge choked brueh canyons Indians Indian would auld follow loUo the bare bar ridges WI U buy this Cooper Ca Canyon and Sharps Sharp's Canyon Canyo ore are fe rough Those Thoe Redskins were ere sm smart ft with animals I lets let hWi t I I An AD lucid article Q lc in tn this this months month's U tah Ish sh and Game Gamo Magazine lists lleta aey ral of ot the biggest buck deer et harvested ted in the t atea tes his hi torT tory This piece I ce ev n mentions a Utah that deer that the Boone and Crockett roc Club ranks an s in ono one hundred bun hun fired dred seventy fifth place Under the tle B. B A C. C Clubs Club's new scoring a system te n started In hi 1950 deer antlers are Judged for their ii symmetry nm try and massiveness a as aswell aswell well as their spread Now then what wed we'd like to know Is la where the mule deer deerhead deerhead deerhead head OV over r in the Morgan forgan Bank Dank ranks f Us Its 47 inch antler width probably exceeds any otter other spread measured in Utah's his Ms tory The buck in the banks bank's not exactly what you'd call call puny antlered e either therl Karl Kars Sparks offers some more deer lope dope in the same magazine The following items terns are are t taken ken from Crom his page full 20 year 20 year Utah deer der kill table In 1940 hunters killed deer In 1950 hunters hunt ers era bagged deer The licensed In 1959 1859 tagged a calculated total of deerWe deer We predict In 1970 1570 half halt a million hunters will kill kUl ten thou thousand thousand sand porcupines 97 b barrels ot of bourbon 17 sheepherders and nd more deer eer than th they 11 take the tho time lime to gut cut and eat S. S See where a group of rocket era Pony Express riders passed through Summit County County last Saturday Sat Sat- Y W Wonder how many 9 ot of em would've qualified tor for this work had they been around round a century ego Eliot Anyhow their ride has haa provided provided pro pro- vided Inspiration for the following following fol lowing bit of ugh classic poetry Phoney Express i A million h hardships more or orl orless orless l less ss Were endured by the men ottie of ot tie the I phoney Y 12 Express P i ire There re was was' s e a ev evry every r t turn rn or f Vi e J trai tram I As they zoomed along with th their their l po pouch oj t mare mare m I lj Y 1 L. L M Moore re raced aga against t the clock 9 Down n. n Echo Canyon Cannon on from Castle H i Ro Rock k y You can n. n IJ I Imagine poor r rBI Dills Dill's frustration When they t ey ma made fe him stop at atthe atthe atthe the hl s station station I He Ue roared into Henefer ten ui J late J tl rl led te dl dig r t r r rP t walk To grab up the matt man and aad cl rf ride aw away W y T. T But Dut he durn darn nest sear got go it by Madden Cafe Ted dodged a n Bus Bas lS with luck tuck Only to be smacked by a semi semi- I trunk truck Recovering he rode and crossed crossed cross cross- ed ad the he divide Meeting rider Glen Olen on tho the other side East Canyon Glen was wu ii In II a state of despair For squirrel hunters huntera had murdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered hi his mare Still he ran to the lake paid a boater a fee And hauled the mall up to Bridges' Bridges by water skit Cowboy LeGrande Bridges was next on the run I And he thought as ho he rode I along loading his gun this Lake Lako I just hope that Salt trip aint my last Ive I've had BO so durn darn many close calls in the past Ive been at attacked by hot rods and T T Birds and bikes Ive I've been chased with BB guns b bows wa and nd the likes Itkes Now Im I'm used to all this but butone butone one ona thing bothers me Hope my trail dont don't pass BETWEEN BE TIE- E- E TW TWEEN AND ANDLEE ANDLEE LEE j I How taT tar t some people wont won't go gotor for tor a laugh au h ugh STAN again |