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Show Ezra F. Walker Tells Of Fire li Bear Canyon ' . f :. ' f & I ; Z1 7 i i : ' ' a: 22 1 By EZRA F. WALKER . fciiverul poople have asked .about the Eire in Hear Canyon in American Ameri-can Fork canyon, and as 1 was an an eye witness to that fire. 1 was No years old, on January 25th, 1!MJ, so 1 thought it might be a good time to tell about it. My l.TliieiJ lieiibon Walker, an.l mother, .Margaret Foutz ,Valkcr, were tlu-iji living in' a little' lug cabin for the -summer at the west end of the flat where Mutual Dell is now located. Father , and my brother Horisoh were chopping saw logs from Hear Canyon, rolling them over the "roll off" into the Mutual Pell Flat. . Logs that were rolled over the "roll off" were brought down A-nn A-nn riea-n Fork canyon during the .following winter by my brother, on a bob sleigh. The logs wj?re saw. ed at Atnerican Fork . andsfd to build a barn at his home in this city. . . . : It was -18K6.--I was 7 years old and lived with my -mother in the litle log cabin. Every day I -went with Father. Chere I received my very first lessons in driving oxen. Many and varied were our experiences ex-periences that summer, from Hen-sen Hen-sen -almost being jumped on by a Mountain Liori to seeing hear, deer and fires. We never knew what started the fire hut Henson went up after the oxen when wej saw the blaze, and I followed after him.' It was impressed on my mind more vividly vivid-ly by my falling down and running a dry stick into the palm' of my hand. It was so jammed in, that' Henson had to pull it out. The fire started south of the "roll off", traveled to!( the south until it came to the ridge of Bear Canyon or the ridge that drops down : into . the flat, that, iiiow I "Community -Flat. We liriow that I flat now as the one where we start I up the trail to Timpanogos. I On top of the ridge there , now j stands an' old black tree by the side of -the trail as a monument to that fire. All thru that country are large half , burned trees like .ghosts reminding us of that tragedy. trag-edy. There are some quite big tres standing yet. ..'.- ' : |
