Uintah Basin Standard | 1960-08-04 | Page 4 | Parry Grant Finds Knife Lost 40 Years

but true Grant finds knife lost 40 years m DUCHESNE still says Parry Grant as he tells about how he recovered his pocket knife after it was lost in the woods for forty found the knife while on a hunting trip in the same spot he left it 40 years ago after he had skinned a Tills was when he was 16 years trapping in McAfee Basin in the Rock Creek ara about 35 miles north of Grant recalls that ho was aware at the time he lost the knife that he left it closed laying on the but he had not been back to the So while hunting deer last he was in McAfee Basin and happened to think about this so he made it a point to walk by this Sure there was Finds knife after 40 years Parry resident of tells how he recovered his pot ki t knife after it had been lost in the McAfee Basin in Rock Creek area for 40 The somewhat rusted and with part of the bone handle was left OB i pine In 1019 by then a lG-year-old his pocket rusted and damaged on the but PARKY HAS SOAKED the knife in stove oil to loosen the rust and is going to sharpen the three blades and otherwise repair As a Parry lived with his and and Monroe who homesteaded in the of Rock Here he trapped beaver and coyotes for pocket money The spot where he left the knife is at the bottom of the right under the 7 or S miles from Lower northwest of the Rock Creek road