Show I I I j I i I I DEATH ClAIMS I I MINING PIONEER I HENRY GRAVES One ne of Last of Pony Express Express Ex Ex- I press Riders Prominent i in Backing Bacling of Many Oil Development Ventures I Salt Lakes Lake's fast dwindling ranks s of pioneers were wore further reduced I today when Henry Edward Graves 82 died at his home South S Second Sec Sc- cond c- c ond end West Vest street Mr Graves was wasI I I born In England In 11 and came cameI here with his parents in 1854 The family settled at at Provo Ho He was I I th the oldest of or ten children and tb the I youngest of that family a brother I II JOshua whose home Is at Lake LakeShore j I j Shore Utah county is the only member of it still sUll surviving Mr Graves also was one of thelast the thelast last Jast of the i pony ony express riders He Herode Herode Herode rode a stretch of of fifty miles dail daily for more than a year His route lay bet between Fort Bridger and andI Marysvale Wyo When the service was discontinued he was given charge of a a. string of the horses to I bring to Salt Lake City where he I was paid off Later Mr Graves became connected connected connected con con- I with the Overland Stage line to the Pacific coast He was station keeper at Mountain Springs Nov Nev for several years The opening opening opening open open- ing of the Central Pacific found him engaged fn hi the promotion of 01 mining ventures In this he was a tI partner of ot the Walker Valker brothers Inthe in inthe inthe the Emma mine a silver property i 1 Cottonwood canyon Mr Graves is Js said to nave furnished James Woodman the original disCoverer discoverer dis dis- coverer coverer the initial funds funds- for fOl the opening of the mine The Eureka Centennial-Eureka property was another of the mining ventures which Mr Graves helped to finance Both these properties are said to have returned the original backers big returns Had he lived until next month Mr Graves would have rounded out 58 years of married life His widow widow wid wid- ow Mrs Clarinda HIgbee Graves a and d four daughters In addition to to twenty one grandchildren n and fifteen fit fit- teen great-grandchildren great are are still living The daughters are Mrs Clara Luck of Tooele Mrs Mary Zetty Mrs Maud Clark and Mrs Evelyn Andrews all of or Salt Lake City Funeral arrangements will willbe willbe be in charge of and andI Alcott undertakers I |