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T IiI IiII Sorting The Muck Ck Pile I I By KELLY July 28 1942 A letter to the boys at the fronts listening in IThe The anglers are carting so 80 much fish Into town you'd think we inhabited a 0 aNova aNova Nova Scota Scots village where they do nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing but fish and then fish some more Then Puss PUS gets city suckered three times Once on the can of three dozen worms and got six mixed in with a a. beautiful collection of grass and weeds Fish pass paS him up on the where everything else bit the third time he was handed a beer container to place on the sidewalk and twenty more popped up through the b hole Lost st five pounds It would make things a bit more lively around this little hamlet If business business busi busl Iness ness was suspended for three days each week weCk Olve us more time for skull re recreation recreation recreation re- re creation and fishing And again Look Look at atthe the crowds of people that would cluster cluster cluster clus clus- ter up our business section during the store open days Somebody might want wanta a package of gum or fags during the closed days and make a squawk Bum squawk Bum Idea I I 1 Lots of houses house and apartments In Park for rent Defense plant workers workers could find no better place to live than right here A holler is being made about no housing for workers at different plant areas and up here we have room Ifor for a couple hundred families Workers living In n Springville Payson Provo Spanish Fork Bountiful Salt Lake and other rural communities T to the the mines in this district before bitten by bythe bythe bythe the big pay bug They could reverse the ride work at defense projects In the valley and live In this mountain at atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere at- at where the cooling breezes Is filtered through pine trees and flower covered hillsides twenty four hours bours a a. aday aday day and you can sleep the clock around Yard room for tor the kids and where the wife can throw out water dish-water on the back ck lawn and not through the window window win win- dow of the next door trailer house Ye workers take heed beed Come up and see ace us some time You defense workers have priority on new treads and a real sleep would do you more good than all the breakfast food broadcasts on the air The city council unanimously vote I was recorded authorizing the purchase of a a. new fire truck Now we can look forward to parades and be able to point with pride at our fire protection equIpment equipment equipment equip equIp- ment If and when the W W. 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A or other priority agencies let equipment be purchased We have something to look forward too The get a horse borse gag has baa whiskers We knew last Friday was a holiday Must have been legal too Four or five flags were unfurled to the cooling breeze stores were closed and the liquid dis- dis pe sery tap was turned off The Pioneers Plo Pio had a birthday celebration lon down In the city of saints where the thermometer thermometer thermometer ther ther- hovered near the degree mark markA A few of our citizens drove down downto I to enjoy the heat and watch the parade of four or five Pioneer floats mixed in j I with a military display of army ermy trucks i t tand and fighting equipment and also to be bej 1 tOok tOok-ln by a side aide show aboW Friday In Park was spent watching for a car to park on Main street j The moving bank could have bave carried l I Ithe the paper money down the street In In arm loads and cold cash In a a. wheelbarrow wheelbarrow wheelbarrow wheel- wheel barrow retread rubber tired and no one would have bave noticed The boys from the valley even went through not even stopping for a beer sack of Durham or a I stop atop sign It was a little quiet Saturday Saturday Sat- Sat SatI I though was waa different The return I lof of celebration folks and the finding of the note helped to liven liveD things up and pull the stoppers from the OW OW OW O to the WilkIns W a grandfather er family tap and the party arty was on The fatted calves quenched a day old thirst from the fountain of youth the spirit of 42 returned to ac act like 26 28 Nut sed I I We know most of the boys and girls In these parts out for party nominations There is v very y little going on In these summit bounded communities that I neighbors do not know about aspirants for tor political positrons We know what I I th they Y have done can do and will do doand doand doand and vote accordingly You po politicians play playa a a. game but to us supposed to dupes Its a ye we at secret meetings held beld on ont 1 t- t t tirs and elsewhere 1 J 1 Th the U. 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P depot In III to be painted After Alter t. t cada tha old branch terminal b ba up This will be beabout beabout beabout about the third time since 83 83 red or yellow paint hM has been applied on the depot and out buildings That old black and white sign Park City elevation Echo 28 miles Ogden 68 58 miles placed there in Chet wimbles wimble's time Is 18 almost obliterated that's a good word word word- Irish We kids remember when the sanded sanded sand sand- ed td thick paint was applied to protect smooth board from knife Jack initial artists Passenger and freight trains were were I common dally sights back when Ex Excursion Excursion Ex Ex- trains to Garfield beach grove at Echo or to the Weber river gardens below Wanship were weekly pleasures Before then the Utah Eastern ran excursions every Sunday to Pape and Burtons Burton's gardens Leave Park at 8 a a. a m. m for Kimballs Kimball's then over to Atkins gardens arrival at 9 30 a. a m. m Fun Pun folks folb not by car load but by cool car train loads at per round trip funny how a bucket of paint will revive memories as well as brighten up eyesores to citizens as aa well as to the numerous ore train crews Last Friday Saturday and Sunday saw the movement of some 2000 accounts ac accounts accounts ac- ac counts and cash that had been merged through our well crowded with ventilation ventilation tion street from one bank to another For a a. two horse horae village that Is a 0 lot of accounts Di from Ogden cashiers cash cash- ler and clerks moved paper stuff and chair cushions On Sunday when rv iv- iv vone v- v one v-one was to church or out of town or In the hills and the street was void ot of cars and pe pedestrians le trl ns nIckles dimes add and other heavy money was moved Justa Just a a couple of of bag of sugar with no militia r l' B. B J. v teran ran guards being Ing g Age Age- spread has not developed in proportion to that of form- form t tk tr The and the cai was moved Its too bad a mother Las has to leave llave her drinking party friends to take care or the kids left in the parked car Kids get a good example to follow the ways of parents by having a good time playIng playing playing play play- ing in gutters until parents parched gullet cooled with amber fluid come out and cha chase chae o the kids back into the sunbaked car and the kids fun is ended end end- ed I We rambled Sunday y took a stroll I Up WoodsIde gulch past the King milland mill mm milland and hoist and along the gulch trail or orthe orthe orthe the time old Brighton road to Crescent ridge Feeling young left the trail and followed along the tho top of Pioneer ridge to Jupiter hill hili The Walker and Webster or Hammer Hanour gulch on the east side canyon on the west Visited all the prospect holes as Buck Duck Bucannon did for mining stories in the eighties on the ridge to and over oer J Jupiter u p 1 t e r r. r Wouldn't be atall surprised d to hear of mines opening up under that ridge come the seventies or eighties That peak of dirt Dill Bill Is III piling up to mountain size below us will some day In n the far distant future be known as ONeil O'Neil peak lone done one of the scenic attractions In canyon or maybe maybo they will renan it Kearns or Ivers canyon fanyon anyon by then The dump is 18 almost across the gulch at Little America and could be the cause of holding the water in Shadow lake which still is full of wet Snow pile In Inthe Inthe inthe the depression on the north side of Jupiter Betters Detters can collect collert wagers snow will be there ther August first From the hill bill hilltop top feet elevation you look down on the west from Shadow lake to tl the meadows at the mouth to to the southwest Scotts Scott's pus pass and the white granite peaks around Brighton Swinging on your our pitch covered ered pants you yU look wreckage and your gaze the hills above Kamas and lieber ai d the preen green valE n swing if it your pants Isn't pitch stuck onto the pine tree root right below you Is 18 Bonanza flat spotted with lakes and anti girl scout tenta tents among the shade of sheltering pines That picture Is la w worth the stroll Old Glory flying to the br breeze eze atop the pole at Camp Cloud Rim Run re reflected reflected reflected re- re in the waters of the lake among the shadows of trees and rock cliffs cliff la is something to look at After l leaving baying the peak followed the tho ridge down past JO John n Oldhams Oldham's property the tb horse drawn whim with its iron drum is still logs and rocks rocQ piled on top p but on t the e samo same spot when John had II a a million dollar mine and lost It Lots of other prospect holes showing color Olor of the seventies and eighties In passing noted the No Wasatch Summit and Salt Bait Lako Lake counties corner stake then dropped down Gown among the Flat lakes still full the lakes to cool oft off Mello lIello t to the n new w bunch of kids at the camp crossed the hot flat nat and up past the Flagstaff moro more in Summit county hit the trail trill among the trees down Ontario canyon to No 3 dump Lonesome place now Past memories so au walk home down dawn the ridge trail with thoughts of old timers coming off shift Took skiing trips to Brighton along Pioneer ridge also f from Jupiter across Bonanza flat and dawn Ontario canyon 45 years ago Mountains and valleys In n the same place Scenery the same slime filling eye-filling gra gran the same SlIme but you hear a strange clicking clicking click cUck ing abut about You find It is bO body v. v I squeaks Need new youthful oil in transmission tram trans mission lon and a body overhaul Wanta Waat take a 1 walk About ten miles up and down The bank that handles War and the post office is In the same block now No for not putting extra mone money saved td from not driving car Into bonds bond or stamps It Its It's up to you yau to help belp the t keys beys eys that are helping to keep us ua Americanized |