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IT Hog? -Role esiwGi'd Pi IVI or man i- on on Arizona orrm sion DAILY HERALD 7 TUESDAY, JULY 4, 19G1 Utah County, Utah Historic Pipe Springs Now A National Monument JJU Brown Patch, Dollar Spot, Rust, many other Diseases, can wipe out Your' Lawn in a hurry! ter from the churn, Flora poured the buttermilk back Into it, set it outside the walls, and handed out the rest of the bread. Then leaving the In-, dians outside to eat and churn she came back inside and closed and locked the big gates through which the intruders had entered. Eventually the family of Flora returned from the range and the Indians departed without harming anyone. Flora never did say how long the Indians tried to get butter by churning buttermilk. At this time of writing Pipe Spring has been completely restored with pioneer relics added.

Most of the relics, according to Mr. Heaton, came from the first families down that Way, being handed down through the generations first by those who lived in the area in the 1860's and 1870's. A few of the pioneer names on the relics are Hopkins, Esplin, Heaton, Jarvis, Carroll, Judd, McDonald, Winsor, Spencer, Cox, Wooley, Chamberlain, Brawn, and Pipe Spring Monument is open every day of the year for visitors, with guide service provided for them. Following the opening of the Zion-Mt. Carmel tunnel and highway, visitors at the-Monument dropped from an all time high of 28,000 one year down to 800.

Lately, according to Leonard Heaton, about 10,000 have visited Pipe Spring each year with an expected 30,000 or more upon the opening of the new oiled highway from Hurricane, Utah," to Fredonia, Arizona, which will be more than half completed this year. a 0 0 0 a a a a a '3 I Pipe Spring. Both men were killed by Navajos and Paiutes during the winter of 1865-66. In the spring John and Robert Berry and the latter's wife were killed a few miles northwest of the Spring, j', "The Mormons under the leadership of Brigham Young acquired the estate of the Whitmores arid Mclntyres and in 1869 sent Bishop Ansoii P. Winsor to Pipe Spring to build a fort to provide safety for travelers between Arizona and Utah, improve the spring for use at the fort, and take care of cattle there for the church.

When he finished the fort in 1871, it was called Windsor Castel. The fort consisted of two, two-storied red sandstone buildings that faced each other across a courtyard, which was closed at the ends with high sandstone walls, and heavy gates. A firing platform was below the top of one wall and many loopholes- were made for use in case of Indian The north building was built directly over the spring with the water running through the south building, thus making a plentiful supply of good water at all times. Winsor's wife made cheese in the spring room jbecause of the coolness maintained by the constant 68 degree temperature of the flowing water. Barrels of butter and tons of cheese were made at Pipe Spring and much of it sent to St.

George to help maintain the many workers in the building of the Mormon Temple there. Maj. John Wesley Powell had Stops most Lawn Diseases LAWK 1 By KATIIRYN D. GItOSBECK The history of a state is not necessarily limited by its bounds Consider the Arizona Strip, -the area north of the grand Canyon of the Colorado. Much of that A country is basically and funda- mentally tied up "with Utah and Mormon history.

This is true of Lee's Crossing, the Crossing of the Fathers, Fredonia, Pipe Spring, as well as many other locations in the. Strip. This article is concerned with only one, Pipe Spring, a historic 'Mormon fort that played a significant part in th western movement of the pioneers. Situated in rugged, picturesque country, barred inrby the Colo rado Riyer on the South and East, Pipe Spring Fort is at an elevation of about 5,000. feet.

The summers are hot there and the win- ters cold. Because bf its location geographically between the Colorado's Ute Fort and Lee's Ferry the Virgin Valley, Pipe Spring was well known to prehistoric people in Ujeir migrations. Its spring of purewater was the only spring of any sze Sin the whole Strip. Probably members of Jacob Hamblin's party were the first whites to visit Pipe Spring in 1858 after the Escalante party in 1776, having been sent (by. Brigham Young to expldre the Colorado River country and) make peace with the Nayajos.

Pipe Spring was i named after one of the group, William' 11am-blin (Gunlock Bill). Since he was considered the best shot in the group, Dudley Leavitt tricked him into trying to shoot through a silk ha'ndkerchief at 50 paces. Natur ON ARIZONA STRIP The Pipe Springs pioneer fort stands today, as: it did long jagio, changed little by the years. In foreground is one of the outbuildings flanking the fort. These were used to shelter the workers during the building of the fort.

Later they served as stables' for the cowhands. Here today are, the tools of the past, some of which were used in the construction of the fort. after cattle, six Indians rode in. by the other children, she opened As Flora frantically churned, the PR0V0 LANDSCAPE CO. the door to the drop so that a breeze would blow through and then she returned to the kitchen.

Some "ime later, when she returned to see how the' baby was, she looked in upon a live coyote, lying near the baby. Her sudden screaming frightened the animal and it fled out the opening to the hill. Heir-baby awoke unbarmed. On another occasion when Flora Wooley was churning butter and all the men were away looking I ndians "Watched, fascinated Overcome with fear for her children and realizing she could "riot send for the men, she immediately got bread for the uninvited ones and begairs spreading it "with the newly-formed butter to which she had added some salt. Then to each of the Indians she gave huge slices of bread and butter.

Since some of the men indicated they wanted to get but 1455 South State (on the Sprjngville Road) Provo Phone FR 3-8323 1 1 0 Among Austrians, 1 the favorite musical instrument is the piano, followed by the accordion, guitar, zither and violin. era Era ca cxi C3 ca ca ca tae his headquarters at Winsor from 1871 to 1872 while bis party mapped the portion of the Colo his share of the United Order when it broke up in the 1880's. Though Leonard Heaton was born in Ordervipe, he grew up at Moccasin and Pipe Spring1, for they were part of -his grandfather's holdings. It was 'February 8, 1926, that Leonard. Heaton, after several years of riding the open range with his father; for cattle, came to Pipe Spring jto look after the fort in exchange for the privilege of operating a service station and lunch counter.

-he did for four years with the helpof his wife. have been atvPipe Springj almost ever since, first living Jin the upper part of the structure and then moving to the second! floor of the lower part. Their one absence was for four years while: a CCC camp was located on the Monument during 1936 to 1940. Ever since then they hav- resided at Pipe Spring. There jthey have reared ten children, seven boys and three girls, sending them to grade schooL at Moccasin 4 miles" north, to high school il3 miles east to Fredonia, and sending seven to Utah and Arizona.

Two sons served with the armed forces in the rado River not too a away. After Bishop Winsor left Pipe Spring in 1875, the fort became part of a cattle ran ch.j It was not until May 31, 1923, that Pipe Spring' National Monument was According JY 'feini to I Leonard Heaton, acting super WHEN YpU JDM DESERET FEDERAL'S FINE CHINA AND SILVERWARE ally he failed in ther. attempt as 'the Tiandkerchief yiUded the force of the bullet. i Angered because of the trick he dared Leavitt to put his pipe, a souvenir of his days as a member' of the Mormon Battalion, on a rock near the spring with the mouth of the, bowl facing (him. Then Ilamblin wagered he could shoot, the bottom out of the bowl without touching the rim.

The wager accepted, "Gun-lock easily won hence the name Pipe "Spring. In 1863 Dr. James M. Whitmore and Robert Mclntyre settled, near the large shade trees and the pools of water at Pipe Spring and started a cattle; ranch, the -first permanent settlement Korean War. Five served mis By Opening a Savings Accoynf with $50 or adding $50 to your present account Mormon Church.

sions for the i' 'i i i intendent, a touring party including Stephen Mather, first National Park Director, and Carl Gray, President of the Union Pacific Railroad, on their way. to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, spent the night at the Heaton ranch near the fort. At Mather's and Gray's suggestion the United States government bought Pipe Spring for $5,000, the money coming from those persons who wanted to. preserve Winsor Castle. There are many other interesting facts and stories connected with Pipe Spring, Borne of which Leonard Heaton tells bis visitors, Mr, Heaton's great-grandfathers were among the eany settlers near Pipe Springy coming in 1870 from Muddy River in Nevada and to raise 'cotton and be peace-makers with the Indians along the California Road.

They first settled in Long Valley, now Orderville, later coming to the Moccasin a which Mr. Heaton's grandfather received as Choose a 4-piece place setting of the finest CHINA or a 5-piece place setting of Oneida SILVERWARE FREE and additional settings at a fraction of their actual value while you savel Limit: One free setting to a family. Join the Leonard Heaton has been' in charge of practically all the restoration at Pipe Spring the collecting of relics, and the improvement in roads to the grounds and at the Monument since it was established. At one time Mr. Heaton's Aunt Flora Wooley and tier baby boy, Legrande, were the central figures in a coyote story.

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