| Show in int in in- Doing w 4 j. j r i. i E t TI GRE GREAT iT OUTDOORS r S ry fl f Stan l tt y By By Taggart I t sign Ign of spring We tau tan tanon eB Mrs MM Jennie Bur Sur on grandmother of Matt Thom Thorn eon tho pon the Other day dBY She was on er 2 Way to Croydon making on one oue other her ober frequent fah weather fair ther visits I o jj grandson M Matt U. U I s 1 J JOT Ti to drive and to go ac sr ph pint nixed t lire S Surprise i said Id Ill Ill I'll b be at home there in Bountiful i. i not thinking of going any any place Then the next thing 1 t know Im I'm in n my car and off for Ogden or American Fork or Croydon n. n Grandma really does get around well welt Matt agrees considering that she ahe used to be an Invalid confined to a wheelchair In a rest reat home One day grandma got the notion that ahe she wanted n a car Mother er told her that shed she'd have e to learn rn to walk fire first So grandma overcame overcame her arthritis got up and and started walking again and again and nd now she ehe drives her own 1939 Cher Chev It Its brake and clutch pedals Are bUIlt up BO so that she can reach them them and an extra thick extra cushion i enables nables her bet to see over the steering steering steer steer- ing wheel I INot Not only does she he enjoy getting get ting around Mrs Surprise says saya that she he especially likes to drive down In the middle of Salt Lake City where City where the tr traffics traffic's f- f lies fic's the heaviest A Ao Another o r spring sign Echo citi zen sen zen lark dark Moran can t be seen out outOn outon On an on his Ills r regular gular highway hikes If It you you atop stop for far a fellow walking I down own Echo Canyon say and say and he I yO no thanks that hed he'd just as eoon walk well that's Mark Moran n. n Jim Murdock knows darned well that springs spring's arrived Kids have been shooting up and down the mountainsides at over near where he be works works and and Jims Jim's been stray lead right along with the chucks chucks' I t Moki Ma Mac Ellington came up Weber Canyon last week weekend end and looked over the river He covered 18 miles of our muddy I Weber In a canoe three years year ago floating down do as far as Peterson and Peterson and that tt n will be just Juat fine for his hie boat races planned In July Mac came to Utah from Ca Canadas Canada's bit bit over or r XI 30 years ago Since then hep n ah X a logged logged d ulles uiles on rivers I think this sta state haS haa m more moreo re o 0 offer offer- than thab any other the veteran ruler river runner said last Week And that's why Im I'm here Frank Allred Chief of tho the Weber Web Web- er Or County Sheriffs Sheriff's Jeep Patrol brings bringa us up to date on Utah's lIe search ch and rescue groups Therell be a wide state Jeep Patrol c convention held here In Ogden next May 13 14 and 15 Frank reports At the big convention In Las Vegas a few weeks ago ego we learned learned learn learn- ed that the average state has I about lour four Jeep posses posse We YVe expect around FIFTEEN of them them from from Utah alone alone to to have representatives representatives representatives tives at our Ogden convention Also some county sheriffs who intend to form search earch and rescue will I organizations In the future wit will 1 I probably be there While walking along the narrow narrow nar nar- row rocky Sharps Cooper Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon ridge last deer season we spotted potted an odd looking stifle stene I laying In the trail Picked It up I It tt was WILS about the size and shape of your Index Indu finger and was a aI avery avery I very dark green Along the entire length of one side eide of cf it were parallel parallel par par- cuts ts These grooves groove plainly made by br human hand were about an eighth of an Inch apart They were worn thin around the center of th the piece We asked Indian expert expert expert ex ex- exI I pert just jUt exactly what this hunk hunt of ot rock from the ridge above found Valley happened to be It happens to be an n unusual and valuable Indian artifact he said Your stone tone Is la mica schist of number four hardness hardne Some Indian once used It as aa a fetish or good luck piece Its It's worn around the middle because that's where It was tied onto a hunting bow Why was it found on the very top lop of ot the mountain Well rather than to travel through rough or bruah brush cheked cheked canyons Indians oud follow the bare ridges Well We'll buy this Cooper Canyon and Sharps Sharp's Canyon are rough traveling Those Redskins were I smart with animals lets let's hunt rocks instead An article in to this months month's Utah Fish and aDd Game Magazine lists several of the biggest buck deer harvested In the states Mates his his- tory This piece even mentions a Utah deer that the Boone Doone and Crockett Club ranks In one hundred hun hen dred dyed seventy fifth place Under the B B. B C C. C Clubs Club's new scoring system started In 1950 deer antlers are judged for their symmetry and massiveness as aswell aswell well wen as their spread Now then what wed we'd like to know Is where the mule deer deerhead deerhead deerhead head over in the Morgan Bank Dank ranks Its 47 Inch antler width I probably exceeds any other spread measured in Utah's history his his- his tory The buck In the banks bank's not exactly what yo you'd d call caU puny- puny antler antlered d LEarl U L' f.- f. f l. l j 7 1 4 E Earl ri Sparks some more more ore deer dope In the mag magazine zuie The following Items Hems are ore taken from his page full 2 year 20 year Ut Utah h deer kill table In Ira 1 1940 hunters huntera killed deer In 1950 hunters huntera hunt hunt- ers ere bagged deer The The licensed In 1959 tagged a a calc calculated total total of deer We predict In 1970 half a million hunters will kill ten thousand thou thou- thousand sand and porcupines barrels of bourbon 17 sheepherders 1 and more deer than they'll they take i the time time time- timeto to gut cut and eat eat Ever ver have to deal with a rabid dog Mrs Bert Allen did She recalls the tho unpleasant experience 18 ra follows One tune time when Bert was iras out Along ong his bis 8 Mr Mu Allen Alien JiM S t relates fAte a der g gate te him Alm Alma hima i a a little tittle dog brought It h home borne and U It wee was as n a fine tine pet tot lot several months Then one orle morning I 1 noticed that hat the dogs dog's erM eyes lute red i And that it ItlIe was lIe a acting strangely it t wobbled b Up urI an antI and laid on the I front porch porth fr frothing at the mouth 1 I f coaxed axed the poor aniD animal out o t to the buggy shed and locked it t inside When Bert got home he looked In at the dog Realizing I at a glance that It had rabies rabin he killed It with a II rifle rUle shootIng shooting shoot shoot- ing through a crack In the side Ide of the shed Trapper Bert Allen has always given iven rabid animals a wide berth and he hefa had scrapes with several l of ot em ems I Ive seen rabid cows coyotes coyotes mink Just wink just about everything but horses hones Ive I've never seen a with hydrophobia bow how I got started trap rap pin t ln for tor the government oat net there thereat at ot Park Valley We were a rabies epidemic If It we killed a a coyote that didn't show the symptoms sym symptoms Atoms of ot the disease we sent its brain in to Salt Sait LaKe To find opt if it an animal had rabies they'd thed always examine the brain While In that Infest disease ed Park Valley country I Iwas was plenty cautious Spent a lot of time up on my buckboard Just an eye out And I al always al ways waya kept m my old shotgun hand handy too I was out there at Dave James James' place Bert remembers when one of ot his cows got choked choked choked chok chok- ed up frothed at the mouth and couldn't swallow She had bad the the symptoms of rabies and I told Dave 80 so He didn't believe it and came pert near me off the place D Dave ve got a big chunk of f bacon and pushed it down the cows cow's throat to save the poor critter In doin doln such a foolish thing he scratched his arm in several places A few weeks Tater rarer Dave James himself got the rabies They had to tie tic him down before before before be be- fore the doctor could treat his hla sickness He died In just a few days day Mold Moil Mac Ellington would like Uke ito to furnish some boats and canoes land and and sponsor races down the Weber Web Web- er River one day this summer He lie thinks a stretch of water between between between be be- tween Hene er and Morgan would be ideal One race could be with can I It yI 1 r. r G I I Io eec oes o he be one OM with rubber tubber boa bo k B nd l the th d one ne with anh nl floats 1 I See where a group of rocket era Pony Express press riders Ciders passed trough S Summit County last Jut Sat Sat- Wonder h how haw w many of ot em I would've qualified for this work Ib lad bad d the they b been n around ft a century ago ago Anyhow n ow their ride h has haa s pro pro- provided I vided Inspiration for the following following fol fol- fol lowing bit of ugh classic poetry I Phoney Express A million In III ton hardships more or orless lest less Were endured by the men of the Phoney There was trouble at every turn Off tho trail trait As they zoomed along with their pouch Ouch of mare mate mall mail W W. W L L. L Moore raced against the clock Down Echo Canyon from Castle Rock You can well Imagine poor Bills Bill's frustration When the they made him stop atop at atthe atthe atthe the station I Ilie lie He roared into ten minutes late There here rider Ted Foster did tensel tensely wait walt waitTo To grab up II the tho mall mail and ride away But Dut he be durn near got it by Maddens Madden's Cafe Cale Ted dodged a Greyhound Bus Dus with luck Only to ro be smacked by bya a semi semi- truck Recovering he rode and crossed crossed cross cross- ed the divide Meeting rider Glen Olen on tho the other side East Canyon Glen was wa In a state of despair I For squirrel hunters had murdered murdered mur mur- I dered his mare I Still he ran to the lake paid I a boater a fee And hauled the mall mail up to Bridges' Bridges by water ski Cowboy LeGrande Bridges was next on the run And he be thought as he rode along loading his gun I just hope that this Salt Lake trip aint my last Ive I've had so durn many close calls In the past Ive been attacked by hot hat rods and T T Birds and anti bikes Ive I've been chased with BB liD guns bows and floe e likes No Now Im I'm used to but J ii W j r. r r r j iT j. j V t obe olle thing bothers both era me dont don't paea aS j r SK AND ANDIn W In Hd How far some people pe wont won't KO go tot lot A i laugh ugh Again SCAN again STAN |
