| Show As we climb higher and higher the air is cooler the scenery more beautiful No need to say Ahead is Bluebell Flat The solid mass of foot high blue penstamin this early July names itself We are told that this area was oncepasture fordairy herd in the summer andski area in the winter withski tow being built there by Walter Hanson Our guide now polnts out Left Hand Fork ploneer road not suitable for automobile travel but an important spot for Ephrain City since the Big Spring which supplies the city with culinary water is located here Near the Right Hand Fork paralleling the creek is Kanor Tom Dugway Here the road was very sharp so in order to get the logs safely off the mountain Thomas Lund Kanor Tom bullt the dugway that was named after him one of the earliest places named by ploneer travelers Continuing our ride we cross SimperBridge and enter ScottyCamp spot chosen by Lewis Christensen Scotty Watereye aslocation for his camp while caring for the road grader and team of horses while he was on duty maintaining the mountain road Our journey continues past the Meadows whereclimatic station for measuring snowfall is located and we catch the fragrance of the tall pines along the Pine Dugway Our driver nakeshairpin turn upnarrow rough road tobeautiful flat meadow Philadelphia Flat and stops to relate the story ofyoung boy Carl Wilbur and his widowed mother who came to Ephraim from Norway to make their home The mother acquiredsmall herd of cows and then sold them to some people from Castle Dale Carl who was not 12 years of age at that time had the responsibility of delivering the cows He was warned Lo be careful in taking the cows over the mountain since there wasband of horse thieves and desperadoes hiding out at RobberRoost in the mountains The boy hadduty to perform s0 he started on his way with the cows At dusk he walked intocamp south of Horseshoe Flat unaware that it was the RobberRoost The men took the cows and penned them up but allowed the boy to stay in the camp through the might In the morning they turned to Castle Dale with them to Ephraim again As he ging business and logged He named it Philadelphia the cows loose and Carl continued on then walked back over the mountain grew older Carl establishedlogoff the benches on Philadelphia Flat because of his motherlove for the city by that name place where she wanted to stay when they first came to America -81 |
