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Show x Tlffi UINTAH BASK FARMER and they went farther. By 1913 the practice of chopping alfalfa had become fairly well introduced and $ie expense of doing this was more i than repaid by the prevention of loss sustained by feeding alfalfa in bulk; The ehopped alfalfa, in many was blown into a portable cases,, Within a few years after the Am-a- s Sevier Go in a via the granary stationed at the stack in erican colonies gained their Inde- -t point where Lake. Logan, Utah is now Io the field. The chopped hay packed hants and cated, Aahley met Peter Skeene down like bran and when the gran- to turn their atten-fde- n, and the latter aold Ashley Early History of Discovery and Settlement of Basin od, fSder6 reel7t as the operation repeated. With the coming of snow the portable granary was pulled into the feeding lot and rationed out to the hogs in long troughs. One farmer raising hogs on an extensive scale told the writer that by this method he had eliminated ail waste of alfalfa and had saved thousands of dollars in the in the Uintah Basin. course of a few years. The hunters and trappers of these It should he stated that in 1913 early days were beset with hardships and dangers from Indians and from hunger and desolation. Often they were forced to subsist on wolves and muskrats, and other un palatable food. The Nez Perce Indians, who at times were with the explorers as scouts, lived on berries grown on wild bushes and on roots of plantes. History records that the only weapon these Indian scouts had at one stage of the journey was a lone spear. One Sunday morning the Indians were ordered to guide a party to a distant camp from which supplies were to he obtained. The Nez Perces, however, demurred, saying it was the great spirit day and they would not go that day. After a period of four days occupied by religious ceremonies and prayer, the Indians started out with lone 'suear as. a weapon and returned with their ponies laden with a plentiful supply of meat. The savages beset the path cf the trapper, hut undaunted he followed the track of the fur bearers, set his traps, and enriched the increasing store of furs He scaled the mountain passes and explored the deep canyons. ' Ashley changed the methods In W?3t was t la 1825 Ashley crossed the Green and Clark In the river in Wyoming and went again explored by years from 1804 u They were to the Salt Lake valley, taking with followed by the pioneer trappers of him a cannon. This cannon is said the region: Ogden, Provost, Ash to be the first wheeled vehicle evley, Henry, Bridger and others who er taken into this part of the west. blazed their trails through the General Ashley was the first white mountains and forests and left their man to gain a permanent footing ' on ;; iso. marks the plains of the West. William H. Ashley, fur trader, soldier, congressman, was born in Powhatan county, Virginia, in 1778. After attending the pubic schools he moved to Missouri (then upper Loui- -, siana), gained the rank of brigadier general in the territorial militia, and later embarked in the fur trade. He organized an expedition of 300 men and in 1822 the leader and bis men ranged as far west as the Rocky mountains, entering into trade with the Indians of the region, Ashley during this period amassed considerable wealth. He died in 1833. In 1824 Ashley discovered South Pass, and through it he led a party of trappers into the Green river valley. The following year he explored parts of what are now Colorado and Utah., and established a trading poet, Fort Ashley , on the shores of Utah lake This lake at the time was known as Ashley lake. About the time this post was built Peter Skeene Ogden, an agent of the Hudson Bay company, established a trading post in the Ticinity of where Ogden is now located. In 1823, prior to the discoyery of South Pass, Ashley and a band of trappers had crossed the mouil-tain- s to the banks of Green river, west of the Colordo line. This river was known to the Indans as (the prairie hen river.) In crossing the desert east of the Green river Ashley and his trappers endnred many hardships, and it Is reecorded that at one time they and the horses were 'without water for two days and were nearly frantic when at last they reached the river. Here the horses were given the opportunity to recuperate while the men made preparations to return over the dreary waste of whitish clay, on which no vegetation grew. In the autumn of 1324 Ashley returned to the Green river, the abundance of beaver on the stream, being the lure causing the arduous second journey, and he remained until the following spring. Provost, the pioneer trapper for whom the city of Provo is named, had joined Ashleys party. In early May of 1825 Ashley, Pro. vest, and the other men of the expedition left the camp on Green river and made their way across the Uintah and Wasatch moon. tins to .the Great Salt Lake valley. But neither Ashley or Ogden can rightly claim the distinction of being the first white men to engage in trapping in Utah. As early as 1820 Provost was trapping in the Utah lake country, but while some historians maintain that Provost was the first white man to behold the Great Salt Lake this claim is unsupported. Bonneville in 1822 succeeded in bringing the first wagons and ox teams to Utah. He brought twenty wagons loaded with goods for trade with the Indians. The first white settlement in Utah was Fbrt Crockett, located near Flaming Gorge, where the Green river cuts its way through a wall of solid rock. From Fort Crockett went the guide and pathfinder, Kit Carson, to guide Fremont in his (explorations of California. Jedediah Smith, knight errant of pathfinders. was at Fort Crockett with Ashley in 182S, and in their explorations they went as far south the Oregon cotm- -, the hog raisers-o6 4 to 5 3from received per ty pound, live weight for the porkers. Of course, the dollar at that time was the dollar and had not been jazzed to a frazzle. This is merely mentioned to bring to the of the reader that this attention narrative is laid in. the days of normalcy. From the time the young porkers arrived until they were placed in the fattening pens they were allowed to run in the pastures, the latter being a very necessary factor in hog raising. As a direct result of the hog raising industry, the farmers of the Oregon county are conducting the dairy and poultry industries on an extensive scale. It is an axiom that the three industries go- hand in hand, and that each of the industries la .a money-make- r. 1-- -4 old-fashion- ed New From Radiator to j Rear Axle Greater Quality at Low Cost (Continued on page 12) Seeds-ke-de-ag- ie The Uintah Basin Should Raise aud Market More Hogs ALLAN CHEVROLET CO. VERNAL, UTAH (Continued from page 4.) tors farm, the two droves were joined the next morning, and the assembled drove would journey a few miles farther toward the railway and pick up another drove, and so on, until a very formidable bunch of porkers entered the station stock yards a day or two before they were to he loaded on the cars. The same method of assembling was followed when the hogs were hauled to the stations. It was not an uncommon sight to see wagon or sled trains a mile or more in Ieneth coming from long dManee. These farmers do not believe fn the overworked fallacy that sparsely settled communities, far from the railways, can not successfully raise hogs for the market. This contention never was right, and never will be. In other states hogs have been hauled more than a hundred miles to the railway over desert reaches and droves of hogs numbering hundreds have been tracked over the same desert stretches, and yet the farmers received a profit on their investment. If properly managed, the enterprise of raising hogs for the market has nothing to fear from long distances. The farmers of Wallowa county, Oregon, early in their enterprise of raising hogs for the market in train-of load lots, adopted the method feeding chopped grain, barley and oats in the main, as rations during no the fattening period. Practically corn was fed, as climatic conditions do not favor the growing of corn in this county. 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