Whispers On An Ancient Wind

Photos posted….

Whisper — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:22:11 +0000

see the link under Pages: Photos….

I found the photos

Whisper — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:49:21 +0000

and will get them posted into some sort of “gallery” order in the next few days (I hope…. things are in one of those phases where no matter what you think you can do when, it just doesn’t happen….)

What is Osiris, Utah?

Whisper — Tue, 03 May 2005 17:50:21 +0000

Well, first of all, it’s a “ghost town”. There never really was a town here, but it had to be categorized somewhere, and “ghost town” apparently is where it ended up. Osiris is north of Widtsoe Junction; W. F. Holt (who developed and bankrolled Imperial Valley, California) had a residence in Widtsoe in the 1920s and built the creamery structure in Osiris to utilize the milk from herds in the area. He also built a summer home overlooking the creamery - apparently it was cooler up in Black Canyon than in Widtsoe out on the flats to the south. Concrete silos were later added to the original rock and wood structure and the creamery was converted to a grain-processing plant. Eventually Osiris and Widtsoe, and other little towns in the area between Antimony and Bryce Canyon, were abandoned due to drought.

The structures are presently privately owned, and not in good condition. From a “picturesque” viewpont though, they’re certainly special! Somewhere around here I have some photos I took a couple of years back when we were elk hunting in the vicinity, staying in Antimony; we drove “through” Osiris many days on our way to and from the area in which we had elk tags. When I can unearth them, I’ll put them up on the site.

Welcome to Osiris Utah ~

Whisper — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:36:19 +0000

a place in a time of its own. Osiris is not really far off the beaten track: a few miles south of Antimony in Black Canyon, on the way to Johns Valley, Widtsoe, and Bryce Canyon - on a paved road one can travel in a sports car in good weather. While it’s not a long-lost part of the “oldest-west”, it IS a piece of the “almost old-west”. Its history is known, its time-span charted.

Osiris is not “mysterious” in and of itself, it is simply a place with a mystique of its own.