MI 150558

Cold Spring
The forty-acre homestead I located in 1926 included Cold Spring. Its nice cold water and that's how it got its name in early days. The Cold Spring area, was years ago covered with agates, jasper and petrified wood. In later years the Rock Hounds hauled most of it away. Cold Spring used to be, long ago, the watering place for cattle and horses. They came there by the hundreds. The place has been the camping round for hunters, prospectors range riders and others. The United States men camped there for a while when they surveyed the State line the last time in 1916. Long ago my uncle William A. Wright had a little cabin there for a camping place while riding for cattle and horses. when I was a boy the tumbled down cabin was still there, and even now the pile of rocks that was once his fireplace is still there.
It was in the late 1860's, before he built the cabin, when he had a camp about two hundred yards northwest of cold Spring in among some little pine trees, while he had his bed swing, up off of the ground between some trees a few feet away from his camp, and one morning when he started to build a fire he saw the tracks of a grizzly bear in the ashes of the camp fire he had the evening before.
During a few years before 1921, my uncle John H. Wright lived at Cold Spring in a little shack where he raised a garden each year.
In about 1921, M.L. Main located his homestead there of one hundred and sixty acres which included Cold Spring. Main lived there most of the time for five years during which time he was married.
I believe it was in the fall of 1925, when I bought Main's improvements on his homestead and taken my homestead of forty acres of what Main had also including Cold Spring. I believe it was in 1915, when the horse I was riding had a bucking spell at Cold Spring and threw me off almost in the spring.
The Cold Spring area was the camping ground for the Indian's before the white man came and pushed them away. The signs of their camps can still be seen. No wonder they camped there, for the water was plenty good, plenty of apaws and wild onions, and a good deer country.