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Show J THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH HOW MRS. WEAVER Vegetable Compound (.There in not any vlrtua the of whlrh even momentarily will not Impress n new falrnane upon the feature!. Ruakln, CAMP Taking Lydia E. Pinkhama By OOOOOOOCXXXOOOOOOOOOCXXXX IS7. Wmih Nwpair Union., Aa Mrs. Weaver herself gays, "I waa never very strong." This Is A r.iitii statement dcscrFj-Jn- g her condition, for.accordlngtobcr COOKING letters, she was mmmmm cause It was a vast reservoir of valuable furs. The fur trade was one of the contributing factors which brought about the American Revolution and later the contest between British and Americans to determine who would control the fur trade, was again a J7EZCXWOUl?I7r fuctor In embroiling the two countries In the troubles which resulted In the By ELMO SCCTT WATSON War of 1812. In the period of naF Mtns ENT plans are tional expansion which followed this carried out, tlie state war men still thought In terms of of Missouri will Sron beaver,' but by this time their eyes honpay were turned to the vast expanse of or to one of her greatwest. Especially the est citizens, Gen, Wil- was this true In St. Louis which stood liam Henry Ashley. For at the gateway-t- o this virgin wildernearly a hundred years ness nnd which had been the Jumping Ashleys body has lain off plnce for the Lewis and Clark In an unmarked grave g and for several in an Indian mound neur expedition such as those headed by expeditions, the confluence of the Manuel Lisa and Maj. Andrew llenry. I.nmlne and Missouri rivers In Cooper who as as 1800 had trapped the early forcounty, his mime and fame almost northern Rocky Mountain streams. Fur gotten. Now, thunks to the Initiative packs valued at from ten thousand a Missouri country editor, Edgar dollars to fifteen thousand dollars had of Nelson of the BoonviUe (Mo.) Adver- been brought back to SL Louis by tiser, whose suggestion has been various Individual trappers and tradtaken np by the poonvllle D. A. R. ers and It was plain to see that great chapter, a morement has been started opportunities awaited those who went to locate his grave and place there Into the business on a large scale. a memorial In keeping with the imSo with the time ripe, the man with to not Services, his only portance of the Imagination and business acumen the state, but to the whole country to seize the opportunity was on the as well. scene. On March 20, 1822, the followFor there was a time when Ashley history-makinnotice appeared In was a national figure even though It ing the Mlssourf Republican, a SL Louis was then little suspected, perhaps, by newspaper: and even though his in of the annals the his significance To enterprising young men: the subscriber wishes to engage one hundred American frontier has been unappreciated until comparatively recent years. young men to ascend the Mlaaourl river to It, source, there to be for Virginians can claim with Missourians one, two or three years. employed For particuon equal pride In his achievements lars enquire of Major Andrew Henry, for he was born In Powhnttun county near the lead mlnea In the county of In that state In 1785, At the age of Washington, who will ascend with and command the party: or of the subscribeighteen he came to Missouri territory, er near SL Louis. or upper Louisiana, ns It wns then ' Signed, WILLIAM H. ASHLET. culled, and settled first at Cape Ginmn n of rardeau. lie wns even then So the Ashley-llenrcompany or considerable education and property the Rocky Mountain Fur company, as and added to the latter by acquiring the organization was later to be called, a large land grant which included came Into existence and brought Into what Is now Jackson, the county seut the limelight among Its 100 enterprisof Cape Girardeau county. Ashley ing young men" such names as James next moved to Iotosl where he en- Drldger, Etienne Provot, Thomas Fitzgaged In thn manufacture of gun- patrick, Milton Sublette, William I powder, and Inter to St. Louis, where Sublette, James Beckwourth, Edward he wns one of the promoters of the Rose, Louis Vasquez, Jededlah S. old Rank of SL Louts. Smith, David E. Jackson and Hugh Turing the War of 1812 Ashley, Glass. There you have a veritable e whoso forceful personality had appar- Whos Who of the Missouri mountain ently Impressed Itself upon the comnotables, the "long-hairemunity, was made a brigadier general men Immortalized by the brush of of the stHte militia. Later when Frederic Remington and the pen of entered the sisterhood of states John O. Nclhardt I he was to become her first lieutenant-governo- r On April 15, 1822, the expedition and wns bnrely beaten In the embarked at SL Louis on keel boats race for governor by Frederick Dates. which were to ascend the Missouri In 1831 he was elected as a Whig to to the three forks In Montana, trap he Twenty-seconcongress, to fill out the streams on both sides of the the unexplred term of Spencer 1'etfls, Rockies, perhaps penetrate to the who was killed In a duel with Maj. mouth of the Columbia river, and reThomas Diddle, and lie wns turn before the expiration of the three-yea- r and Twenty-fourt- h to the Twenty-thircontract with the men. The congresses. Rut It Is Ashley the pio- expedition was commanded by Major neer, ilie fur trader, the explorer, and Henry but the adventurous Ashley acthe patron of other exptorers, rather companied It After a aeries of adthnn Ashley, the holder of state po- ventures with treacherous and thievlitical ofllce, whose Importance extendi ing Indians and with the even more fnr beyond state boundary lines, makes treacherous river whose floating anags him a national figure and gives to thn wriM ked one boot and caused a loss Interof IIO.isjo worth of merchandise, the proposed memorlu! nation-widest. expedition reached the mouth of the From the earliest days the fur trndo Tellowvtone river and decided to halt there for the season. Leaving Henry bus been nn Important factor In American history. Turing the long serlea In charge, Ashley returned by canoe to of t'olmilul wars England nnd France SL Louis to recruit another trapping wrestled hr the control of the Interior party and obtnln anpplles for the trad-It'activities of the next three years. f Hie North Aiuerlcun continent be long-neglect- trans-Mississip- g fellow-Missourla- y fnr-trad- d Mis-aou- rt d d e S So Important wns this company that to write a history of the fur trade without mentioning It would be another example of playing Hamlet without the melancholy Dane. It was Ashley who established the now famous Institution of the trappers summer rendezvous as a means cf conducting the fur trade. The summer rendezvous was an nnnnal gathering of trappers and Indians where took place not only those affairs of barter but also Homeric scenes of drinking, carousing, fighting between and primitive white men nnd red maidens the sagn stuff of which Nclhardt has made such good use. The personality of Ashley was so indelibly stamped upon the fur trade of that period that after a time Ashley Beaver" became a trade murk of the best brand of beaver fur. It Is Ashley, the explorer and patron of other explorers, however, rHther than Ashley, the fur trader, who Is mast entitled to n national memorial. Tills Is because he was the leader of the first overland expedition to the Pacific coast by a different route to that followed In general by Lewis and Clark. According to Harrison Clifford Dale of the University of Wyoming ExIn his book The Ashley-Smlt- h plorations and Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, The expedition of William Henry 5 np to the South Ashley In Platte across what Is now northern Colorado, In the dead of winter, over the continental divide, and through the perilous canyons of Green river In rudely constructed boats, nnd finally atjll further westward to the vicinity of the Great Salt lake, forms the first stage In the discovery and utilization of the famous overland route to California. From tiie Interior Basin in 1828, Jededlah Strong Smith pushed on across the deserts of Utah and Nevada and over the Sierras to San Gabriel and San Diego the first American to reach California by land. Journeying north to the Stanislaus river, he recrossed the Sierras and retraversed the deserts of Utah and Nevada to the Great Salt lake. These two expeditions together form a single enterprise the discovery of the central and southwestern routo to the Pacific." Ashley decided to sell out his Interest In the Rocky Mountain Fur company In 1820. The purchasers were his associates, William I Sublette, Jededlah Smith and David E. Jackson. The articles of agreement were signed on July 20, 1820, near the Orest Salt lake In Utah. Although he retired from active connection With the company, he retained his Interest In the fur trade In that he decided to furnish the cannon which Is said to have been the first ever taken Into the Rocky mountains. This was In 1827 and It was hauled twelve hundred miles by to be set up on the wall of one of the companys forte. Rut to return to Ashley's wit hrirawal from the fur company which he had made fumous It must have been a dramatic scene when the general stood before the trapiiers at the rendezvous' In these words: and bade them good-blove-makin- g this, my friends, I feel myself under great obligations to you. Many of you have served with me personally, and t shall always be proud to testify to ths fidelity with which you have stood by ms through all danger, and tha friendly and brotherly feeling which you have ever, one and all, evinced toward me. For these faithful and devoted services 1 wish you to accept my thanks; ths gratitude that I express to you springs from my heart and will ever retain a lively hold on my feelings. My friends!. I am now about to leave you, to take iip my abode in SL Louts. Whenever any of you return thither, your first duty must be to cell at my house, to talk over the scenes of peril we have encountered, and partake of the beat cheer my table can afford. I now wash my hands of ths tolls of ths Rocky mountains. Farewell mountaineers and friends! May God bless you all! September 20, 1820 there, in the Missouri Republican the following news Item: "General Ashley and his party have arrived at St. Louis from the Rocky mountains with 125 packs of beaver valued at $00,000." This was the valedictory of Ashley, the adventurer and fur trader. At this point his career ns one of Missouris most distinguished citizens begun. He became a large land owner h,v the purchase of a tract of 30,000 arpens (an old French land measure which varied widely, according to the locality), an nren ten miles long nnd six miles wide. This was the fumous Chouteau-Laminclaim, given originally by the Osage Indians In 1702 to Maj. Ilerre Chouteau, a brother of Auguste Chouteau, one of the founders of SL Louis. Chouteau's title was confirmed by the Spanish lieutenant-governo- r of Upper Louisiana, Charles Dellnulte Delassus, In 1700. but when this country cuiue under the flag of the United States by the Louisiana purchase there wss some dispute as to whether or not the new rulers would recognize the title. Ashley vat then a member of congress and through hts efforts the title was confirmed by an act of congress on July 4. 1830. Chouteau later sold the entire tract to Ashley for $1.25 an acre. Ashley mnde his home on this grant on a high bluff overlooking the Missouri and Lamlne rivers, surrounded by a number of Indian mounds. Ho was married three times hut at the time of his death In 1S3S he left no desepndunts. According to tradition, when be felt that death was near, he walked along the river bluffs looking for a site for his last resting place. Ills selection was the top of one of the Indian mounds In a bend of the river, overlooking the wide sweep of the Missouri, against whose tnudd stream he had aet forth upon his "magnificent adventure" and down which had come the boatloads of furs to bring him his vast fortune. There he was buried. Although the school histories have neglected him, Ashleys deeds have been recorded In Cnpt. Hiram Chittendens monumental "History of tht American Fur Trado of the Fat West," In Professor Dales scholarly study, In J. Cecil Al tors fine blog rnphy, James Brldger," In Nclhardt' sagas and tn the writings of that historian of the Old Went appreciative Mountaineers and friends: When 1 first came to the mountains, I rnme a Emerson Hough, Missouri now pro poor man. Tou, by your Indefatigable poses to erect in his honor a more exertions, tolls, and privations have enduring memorial than the printed procured me an independent fortune. page nnd It Is a project In which all With ordinary prudence In the management of what t have accumulated. Americana no have a yinpathelt 1 shall nevor want fur anything. For Interest On 1822-1820- ": 1824-182- ox-tea- e The camping season is upon us and the good camper Is one who Is able to get along and be imppy with few of the comforts of For the home. the housewife who Is dependent upon her modern equipment to aid In making housekeeping a pleasure, the simple outfit of the real cunip-e- r would find her helpless. We need to get away from the conveniences which make life so enjoyable, to reul-l- y appreciate our blessings, while the novelty of going without aud using our own ingenuity, is a source of pleasure. The camp cook who cuu produce a good meal, with the background of a hunk of bacon, a frying pan aud a sack of flour or meal, Is worth further acquaintance. He builds a fire, making u stove of stones, on which he pluces his frying pan ; then when the sizzling pork or bacon Is cooked. In It he lays a freshly caught trout or other fish rolled In seusoned meal and fried to a crisp deliclousness that satisfies the hungry appetite of the most fastidious. Fish fresh from the running brook, bro'led before a fire held by two sticks, will give the uninitiated the taste of a savory dish which civilization con never produce. The variety of foods that are good and wholesome which may be found In the woods, besides fish, flesh and fowl, are many. The common leek when boiled and served with a drawn butter sauce Is delightfully appetizEaten raw they are used as ing. green onions and In salads. To prepare the drawn butter cook a little flour and butter together until thick ; add boiling water end cook until smooth. Of course bacon fat can be used if butter Is not obtainable. . Those who are aunoyed by all tbe outdoor Insects, the rough roads and long waits for b'.tes when fishing, who cannot dress for tbe part or go unhampered with weight and ready to enjoy even the discomforts of simple foods prepared in the open, would better remain at home, for such companions spoil the feast for the camp lover. A fowl or wild game of any kind, dressed and covered with a paste of flour and water after being well seasoned, will keep In, the Juices and when burled In hot ashes or stones and roasted to a toothsome dainty, the paste removed all ashes will come off with the paste leaving a dish fit for the gods. The delicious field of woods mushrooms growing In such abundance, will make a full meal when well prepured. Knowledge of the common kluds of edible mushrooms must be had before It Is safe to pick them. Household Hints. ere bo perishable that fruits Ripe they should never be bought beyond a day's supply In camping season. An orange that shows signs of softening should never be given to children. Overripe fruit Is dangerous and may cause Illness If eateu. When It Is possible to choose, have plain woodwork, free from carving and creates where dust will lodge. Well varnished woodwork Is easy to clean. Have the work table covered with clue or one of the enamel ones, to save scrubbing. Keep plenty of soft paper to wipe out greusy dishes and kettles and save the hands aud dishwashing. Wear rubber Jieels ; they are a great saving ou nerves us well as floors. Insist upon doors, drawers and screens being closed quietly. The nervous system pays toll alike for Jurrlng sounds and sights. Dishes will double their .service by cureful handling, as well us silver und cutlery. A dust mop In pluce of a broom will remove dust without stirring It up. Tim mp muy be shaken outdoors. Small rugs that ran be taken out of doors to be aired and cleaned are best for sleeping rooms. Itockiug cliuirs take up much room, mar woodwork and shins, besides being found in too great number In most homes. Tufted furniture Is hard to keep clean uuil is not to he recommended. Aside from ventilation windows are made to let In light and to look out of. Why load them with hangings which keep out the light) Fold n heavy rug when Ironing to stand upon, It will be a great relief to tired feet When one has a few bits of leftover fruit of different kinds, add to gelatin and serve aa a salad or dessert When making lemonade save the leiiiou cups to ubo In different way. They inuke pretty receptacles for flnh sauces or cock tails and are ulce for dessett or sulad cups. , unless sutv to no small amount oflll health. Jected Fortunately, her Bis- ter was familiar with Lydia E. llnlc-ha- ms Vegetable Compound and begged Mrs. itor to try three Weaver "Arter four weeks, writes Mrs, Weaver, "I felt at great difference In myself. I would so to bed and sleep sound, and although X could not do very much work, I seemed stronger. I kept on taking It and no w I am well and strong, do my work and take care of three children. I sure do tell my friends about your wonderful medicine, and I will answer any letters from women asking about tha VegeMss. Lawwencm table Compound. Weaves, East Smithfiold SL, ML Pleasant, Pa. If you knew that thousands ofl women suffering from troubles Btmllar to those you are enduring bad improved their health by taking Lydia E. Pink-ham-'s Vegetable Compound, wouldnt you think It was worth a trial In some families, the fourth genera-- ! tlon la learning the merit of Lydia EL Plnkhams Vegetable Compound. 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