June 15, 2008 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Dagens baghave: Backyard of the Day: Silver Reef Mining Town, Washington County, Utah The Silver Reef Mining Town is located near Leeds in Washington County, Utah.   I dag besøgte vi Silver Reef Spøgelsesby i det sydlige Utah. Der er ikke mange af de gamle bygninger tilbage, men der var både en katolsk og en protestantisk kirkegård at besøge. Today we visited Silver Reef Ghost Town in southern Utah. There aren't many of the old buildings left, but there was both a Catholic and a Protestant cemetery to visit.       Silver Reef Mine Probermester Metalliferous Murphy i Pioche, Nevada, havde ry for at være komplet upålidelig, og folk sagde, at han aldrig havde set en sten, han ikke kunne finde ædelmetal i. En skønne dag fandt nogle guldgravere på at bringe ham et stykke af en gammel slibesten, og da han hævdede, der var sølv i den, blev han jaget på porten af byens vrede guldgravere. Men der var et par af minearbejderne, der var ukuelige optimister, og de tog slibestenen til en anden probermester, som til deres overraskelse kom til det samme resultat. Mændene fandt ud af, at slibestenen var en sandsten fra området, der snart blev kendt som Bonanza City, eller Silver Reef, og som den dag i dag er det eneste sted i USA, hvor sølv er blevet fundet i sandsten. Den første minearbejder kom til Silver Reef i 1871, byen blev officielt grundlagt i 1876, og mellem 1878 og 1882 havde den allerede over 2000 indbyggere. Der blev udvundet sølv for 25 millioner dollars i de næste femten til tyve år, inden sølvet slap op, og den sidste mine lukkede i 1891. Byen var stort set forladt inden 1910, men i dag er folk igen begyndt at flytte til området, og der er en del nybyggeri. Assayer Metalliferous Murphy in Pioche, Nevada, was rumoured to be completely unreliable, and people said he'd never seen a rock that didn't contain some kind of valuable metal. One day some prospectors had the idea to bring him a piece of an old grinding stone, and when he claimed to find silver in it, he was chased to the city gates by angry miners of the town. But a few prospectors were incurably hopeful, and they took the grinding stone to a different assayer, who, surprisingly, came to the same conclusion. The men then traced the origins of the grinding stone to sandstone in the area soon to be known as Bonanza City, or Silver Reef, which even today is the only place in the U.S. where silver has been found in sandstone. The first prospector came to Silver Reef in 1871, the town was officially established in 1876, and between 1878 and 1882 it already had more than 2000 inhabitants. In the next fifteen to twenty years 25 million dollars worth of silver was extracted, before the mines ran dry, and the last one was closed in 1891. The town was largely abandoned by 1910, but today people are moving back, and there is a lot of newer construction in the area.

Den gamle Wells Fargo bygning er i dag galleri og museum. Det er den eneste af de gamle bygninger, der er velbevaret. I sin tid var hovedgaden over halvanden kilometer lang, og her var ni forretninger, hoteller og restauranter, seks værtshuse, en bank, et hospital, tre aviser, to dansehaller og en protestantisk, en katolsk, og en kinesisk kirkegård. Den kinesiske kirkegård eksisterer ikke længere, da borgmesteren for den kinesiske bydel traditionen tro senere lod de døde grave op og sende til Kina, så de kunne blive begravet i fædrende jord. The old Wells Fargo building today houses a gallery and a museum. It is the only one of the old buildings which is well preserved. In its time Silver Reef's Main Street was a mile long, og the town held nine stores, hotels and restaurants, six saloons, a bank, a hospital, three newspapers, two dance halls, and one Protestant, one Catholic, and one Chinese cemetery. The Chinese cemetery no longer exists, because the mayor of Silver Reef's Chinatown, true to tradition, later had the bodies of his country men exhumed so they may be sent to China for proper burial in their homeland.         Den katolske Sankt Johns kirke har mistet kirketårnet, og den lillebitte kirke, som er bygget i 1878, er nu privatbeboelse. The Catholic Saint John's Church has lost the bell tower, and the tiny church, which was built in 1878, is now a private residence.     Silver Reef protestantiske kirkegård ~ Silver Reef Protestant cemetery

Clarence Levi Callaway (1880 - 1883) "Lille Clarence, hvor vi savner dig, siden du lod os alene tilbage. Åh, hvor er der ensomt i huset..." Resten af inskriptionen er udvisket, men det sidste ord er "borte." Lille Clarence, der døde som to-årig, var ældste barn af Levi Cheney Callaway og hustru Carolyn Adolpha Grange. "Little Clarence how we miss you, since you left us here alone. Oh, the home it seems so lonely..." The rest of the inscription has been worn away, but the last word is "gone." Little Clarence, who died at age two, was the oldest child of Levi Cheney Callaway and his wife Carolyn Adolpha Grange.     Julia Ann Hathon Rickards (1851 - 1883) & Ada Grace Rickards (1881 - 1882) Hustru og datter af James Robert Rickards. Han giftede sig igen året efter sin kones død, med endnu en Julia, Julia Ardena Hales. Wife and daughter of James Robert Rickards. He remarried the year following his wife's death, to yet another Julia, Julia Ardena Hales.

James Herbert Huston (1825 - 1889) "Adskilte venner kan atter mødes, fri fra naturens slid; kronet af nåde, åh, hvor lifligt vil evigt venskab blive." James Huston var pebersvend fra Pickaway County, Ohio, søn af James og Anne Wynn Huston. Han opstaldede og udlejede heste, og udgjorde sammen med Silas "Sy" Wright West det i Utah og Nevada velkendte firma "Huston & West". "Parted friends again may meet, from the toils of nature free; crowned with mercy, oh, how sweet will eternal friendship be." James Huston was a lifelong bachelor from Pickaway County, Ohio, son of James and Anne Wynn Huston. He kept a livery stable, and along with Silas "Sy" Wright West, he owned the in Utah and Nevada well-known company of "Huston & West."     "Til minde om Mary A. F. Meik Datt. af Jos. F. og A. H. Meik Født 23. April 1885. Død 22. Sept. 1885." Mary Anne Francis Meik var datter af en indisk født far, Joseph Francis Meik, og en skotsk født mor, Ann Hutchison. "In memory of Mary A. F. Meik Daugh. of Jos. F. and A. H. Meik Born April 23rd 1885. Died Sept. 22nd 1885." Mary Anne Francis Meik was the daughter of an Indian born father, Joseph Francis Meik, and a Scottish born mother, Ann Hutchison.     Michael Carbis (1832 - 1880) Michael Carbis var sjakformand ved Buckeye-minen, og fyrede Tom Forrest, måske fordi han var irer, måske fordi han var en hidsig drukkenboldt. Nogle få dage senere, den 3. oktober, 1880, tog Forrest hævn ved at dræbe Michael Carbis med tre dolkestik i maven. Tom Forrest blev hurtigt arresteret og sat i fængsel i Saint George, Utah, men samme aften red en gruppe på fyrre mænd ned til fængslet, overmandede sheriffen, og slæbte af med Tom Forrest, som de først forsøgte at hænge fra tværstangen på en telefonpæl. Da stangen knækkede, gentog mændende hængningen, og Tom Forrest mistede livet, dinglende fra en gren i et solidt poppeltræ. Michael Carbis was the foreman of the Buckeye mine, and fired Tom Forrest, perhaps because he was Irish, perhaps because he was a drunk with a violent temper. A few days later, October 3, 1880, Forrest took revenge, killing Michael Carbis with three stab wounds to the stomach. Tom Forrest was quickly arrested and was imprisoned in Saint George, Utah, but the same night a group of forty men rode down to the jail, overpowered the sheriff, and hauled off Tom Forrest, whom they first attempted to hang from the cross beam of a telephone pole. When the beam broke, the men repeated the hanging, and Tom Forrest lost his life dangling from a branch in a sturdy cottonwood tree.

William Shelton West (1883 - 1888) "Lille makker, du er borte, men ikke glemt." William Shelton West døde som fem-årig. Han var søn af Silas "Sy" Wright West og hans hustru Marie Antoinette "Nettie" Haight. Sy var den anden halvdel af firmaet "Huston & West". "Little buddie thou art gone but not forgotten." William Shelton West died at the age of five. He was the son of Silas "Sy" Wright West and his wife Marie Antoinette "Nettie" Haight. Sy was the second half of the company "Huston & West".   "Baby West født & døde 28. Nov. 1879. Hvil baby hvil." Sy og Netties første barn. "Baby West born & died Nov. 28, 1879. Rest baby rest." Sy and Nettie's first child.     Samuel Bailey (1840 - 1887) Samuel Bailey og hans yngre bror James Bailey var minearbejdere fra Cornwall, England. De delte et hus i Silver Reef. Samuel Bailey and his younger brother James Bailey were miners from Cornwall, England. They shared a cabin in Silver Reef.     "Til minde om Joseph W. Lemon født ... 1812 ... død i Silver Reef, Utah 23. Sept. 1879" "En ærlig mand er Guds mest noble værk. Requiescat en Pace." "In memory of Joseph W. Lemon born ... 1812 ... died at Silver Reef, Utah Sept. 23, 1879" "An honest man's the noblest work of God. Requiescat en Pace."

Den katolske kirkegård ~ The Catholic cemetery     Park Morehous (1877 - 1878)

Henry Clifford Clark (1854 - 1878) Henry Clifford Clark var født i Brooklyn, New York, den 13. Marts, 1853, søn af John Richard og Esther Clifford Clark. Henry blev dræbt den 1. december, 1878, efter han kom i skænderi med en anden mand, som han hævdede havde snydt i kortspil. De endte med begge to at gribe deres revolvere og skyde - og de blev begge to dræbt. Henrys far, John Richard Clark, snuppede puljen, som var blevet efterladt på bordet, og han brugte pengene til at sætte dette monument op for sin søn og indhegne det med det smukke smedejernshegn, som han importerede fra Rusland. Saxey, som den anden mand hed, blev også begravet her, men træ-planken med hans navn på er forlængst forsvundet. Henry Clifford Clark was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 13, 1853, son of John Richard and Esther Clifford Clark. Henry was killed on December 1, 1878, after he had gotten into an argument with another man, who he claimed had cheated in a game of Faro. They both ended up going for their guns and firing - and they both ended up dead. Henry's father, John Richard Clark, took the pot, which was left on the table, and used it to raise this monument for his son and enclose it with the beautiful cast iron fence, which he imported from Russia. Saxey, who was the other man in the fight, was buried here as well, but the wooden marker that identified his grave has long since disappeared.

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