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Show ANDERSON 17 P : Sure , yes .• A: Well, this is going back to that. 1905 period, and the boys had taken the cattle out to Black Pine, the summer range, a few days before, and my grandmother decided to go out there, I guess they knew she was coming and all that. But so she took her, hooked up her horse, Frenchy, and the buggy, she had bro4ght them from Kaysville with her, and took me and she had a hen with about 10 or 12 chickens that she had no one to leave with. They'd just die probably or get killed or die or something on the farm, so she put them in a crate on the back of the buggy on that little shelf. There's a lid to it - sh.e just tied them on there- that's when we went to Promontory the first time. We went up following the cattle trail, following the railroad and then you follow a road that wasn't very good up through Promontory Valley. T: Is that north of Promontory? A: And over to the ••• north of the Golden Spike. And when you got up there to the Adams' ranch, a little pass, then there was a dugway going down the mountain and the road went on across Rozel Flats to Pilot Spring and into the Canyon, Black. Pine Canyon. And we went to Promontory, and then we went on and we started, we went down this dugway and into the tall sage that was on this Rozel Flats. Course you could see these roads and it had them deep ruts at one time. T: From the freighting wagons? A: From the freighting wagons. So you could tell it was a freighting route. Course, I've decided that since. But it got dark and she decided to camp for the night so she unhooked the horse, Frenchy, that she'd brough.t . with. her from Kaysville even, and she· tied <him to one by one of the wheels, and sh.e had some hay that she must have had on top of these chickens, a bale of hay, and she fed him and there was no water, of course. I don't th~nk she took any .with. her, very much anyway, and then she made her bed, or our bed, diagonally on the opposite |
