Show FT CRITTENDEN MAY BE OPENED Congressman Howells Bill for En Entry Entry try Is Favorably Reported to House Bouse Fort Crittonden Crittenden located in Cedar Val Valley Icy ley Utah co nt nty formerly called Fort Flo Floyd will probably be thrown open for entry The house committee of public publIo l lands reported ed favorably yesterday on Representative Joseph Howells bill cx tendIng the provisions of the general land laws over the abandoned military re reserve reserve 1 serve This reservation was made in 1858 when General Joseph EL Johnston founded Fort Floyd during those stirring times In the early histo history of Utah There are acres of land included In the reserve but there are no streams with which the land would be irrigated The soil If i suitable however for tor the production ot of grains but dry farming Name Is Changed When Fort Crittenden was first founded in 1858 1853 it was called Camp Floyd Flord after Secretary Floyd by General Johnston During the civil war Secretary Flo Floyd d ad adhered adhered hered to the tre confederate side Colonel PhilIp St George Cooke became the post commander and by his order the name or of Camp Floyd was changed to that ot of Fort Crittenden This post when it was first founded fur furnished furnished a market for the products ot of the farm ranch and The pIoneers took advantage of the commercial chance thus afforded and themselves with clothing tea coffee sugar and other necessaries When the camp was evacuated evacuated in 1863 the government p such as was not destroyed was sold to the pio pioneers pioneers at a great sacrifice The advent of the army was of great material bene benefit benefit fit to the settlers and resulted in the es of several business enter enterprises enterprises Scene of Many Adventures Camp Flo Floyd was the scene however of stirring sights The camp was fIlled wIth those crIminals that hang to the skirts of an invading army ready to plunder and to kill Murders were frequent and many citizens fell victims to the knife or bullet ot of the thieves and as assassins The and In Indian Indian dian were corrupted by the criminals and the troops were ord rell out many times imes to quell disturbances among them Traces of this old military camp are areto areto to be seen not far from Fairview and other small villages in the vicInity ot of the tho reservation Ov Over r most of the tho reserve nothIng but rabbit brush Is found and much of the land Is covered with a thick coating ot of alkali |