Show u it t told one fide aide it old people to ata their remaining i m mr mn y have havo to v c t entire place 1 I been will rind Hind r nd he is still tm 1 I j I farmer A Ii hI 1 AN A la EDl D rr 1 a 1 1 1 goo no p 3 x 1 Continued Irrigation c ci i will be bo made mulo V o d sLi f 4 a inn tho th slogan is t the thc ono eye mutt man m u ot or ing tho the genius tl r success of or tho the mation matic n t service s noI I able ablo it nIt to carry 0 J tract with the tho the projects project under I possible tint C and sand the thu th security than ordinary Room for I The liThe other b F families for forat cIt r a a a 4 k of at Wyoming g Utah While tho the former forme F I 4 tY T 1 1 1 F through theis tho the whole is I the work of t the tho about through of y r I Nearly Nearl every state department but I s 1 1 political reward I I name only We Ve hI I I of ot the Canadian Beautiful Pioneer Homo Home of the tho Greens Greene Mr and Mrs Alvin G Green Photos by Harry millions j t i i i of ot of benefit A reunion r Ion of at over a n hundred descend descendants I of ot thirteen m en r n children and all the tho others ath rs la a hundred children may mey bu bas b Although the tho le e c of at lard land I property ropE prope r of ot George W V Gibson GibBon the I I I ample tion ants all of one father lather and mother wUl vill have havo large families so that more mare than I 1 l counted to them I 1 lying v t thin 1 the hollow was once unto the I 1 I Greens have havo held beld i a j small mall part purt with the states of ot shortly bo be hold held on en the old Green farm tarm I I near Big Cottonwood creek The long tables tn bles i will be laid on the tho spot near 1 tt ii f ji J which almost sixty years years ago ago Mr Mrs and andI Mrs I Alvin A I G Green built bunt b the t house O I In ln I I Store closed every Wednesday at 1 p m until Sept SeptA A reunion r Ion of at over a n hundred descend descendants ants all of one father lather and mother wUl vill shortly bo be hold held on en the old Green farm tarm near Big Cottonwood creek The long tables tn bles i will be laid on the tho spot near which almost sixty years years ago ago Mr Mrs and andI Mrs Alvin A I G Green built bunt b the t house O In ln I I which c h they th ey still sUlI live the spot which for nearly sixty years has been the theold old side yard of ot the house The rhe Green farm known for tor many years as the best bost place tor fora a country dinner to be found l und In the tho valley lies Iles inthe In Inthe Inthe the Cottonwood hollow just north of at atthe the group gro p of Walker farms which It Itan antedates antedate an ted t a hy lly many years Indeed Oreen ditch 1 the first Irrigation Irrl ditch taken gut of ot the Big BlK Cottonwood Cot onwood stream In 1848 still waters the entire tract tractOn tractOn tractOn On this land tho the young youn couple who lio l hid had h d entered the valley with the first firstI I pa of pioneers plon ers settled and alid they I have watched the entire valley alley grow grog from roman an uncultivated tract to what It Itis ItIs itIs is today tod y yI I left my home In Michigan in com company company pany with my parents iu lu 1845 1840 18 said old fir Ir Green and when a year later they settled in Nauvoo I was with them We Ve came Into Salt Lake valley Sept 9 3 1817 and nd Mrs Airs Greens father took up this land around here and below ex extending extending extending tending nearly n arly to where Murray now stands It was not till October that mother came tame In Mrs Groom Green Gr on and soon I as she did I began bogan making steps this I Iwa way wa ay We Ye wore married Nov 27 21 1850 1860 ir lr the first house ever built by Brig ham Young ung tho the little house now stand standing standing standing ing back of tho the fee Bee Hive place and 11 Jl was Brigham Young himself that mar married married ried rie us Wedded d Life Began There We Wo settled on this spot then al RI although although though the land lanU lantt belonged to her father Georgo George W V Gibson who was called to togo togo togo go south to Dixie DI do in order to begin the cotton otton industry because he was a southern man We Va took charge o of the place for Ifor r him Mm then but later Inter we wo made It our own w and wo we W have raised all aIt our children here bore i I Did we make melee it P pay Well yes yos y l and no Wo We never could have made it pay and raised all our children on it If we had had no other othor way WilY of ot making money But Butt r in to the winter of or 70 or along ulong about this thiR time rams came the min ing excitement in Cottonwood at theold the theold old South Sauth SouthFork Fork and ami for tor the next seventeen sev seventeen enteen summers mother and I went up to that place and ran a boarding house housemother housemother housemother mother being a famous cook Those were the good old times for money but not here In the tho valley vaney Of course the excitement at Alta AHa and Park City were responsible for tar th tha prospecting pro p cUng in Cottonwood Cotton o but b t it all aU brought good times to us But in late years ya rs the tho place has always yielded a good living and we have lived to see all our sons Bons and daughters near noor us and our de descendants descendants descendants Increase to We Y hope to havo have all of ol thorn them gath gathered gathered gathered ered together er some tomo time during the ther r late summer o 0 of the tho th autumn and we propose to 10 make mako it ft a celebration worth f remembering Oldest Locust In Valley The Tho locust tree tr e which shades the house and branches now over tho the yard is thought by Mr Ir and Mrs Green to be he the th first ever eyer planted in the valley The send seed was brought from the tUe east by a n man named Baxter who came in some time early in the and from that he raised r the little sprout which the greens bought from him It has thrived mightily and although many of its Ita largest branches have bet be i l cut and taken away by the tho numerous to the old place it Is still sUIt a handsome tree Beneath Its shade th the Green ditch runs clear cloar and sparkling and here the thc old water churn has hils stood for tor many m ny years Alongside it Is the old root roof cellar the depths of ol which are cool coolon coolon coolon on the warmest summer day The cra era cradle cradIc die dle stood beneath it for children and grandchildren on many a day and it has hus sheltered tho the house from the coldest winds of the tha winter Within the tho dining room which Is the original part of or the house the old ola clock brought across the tho th plains in a handcart stands on a n shelf shelt and still keeps s good time It ia is tho the old style stylo with its quaint pictures set in to the glass glaSH which covers cover its taco face The entire place is filled with ith old as associations associations and has boon bean n in itself a beauty spot for tor many years to the hun bun hundreds hundreds of Suit SnIt Lakers who have partaken en of Mrs Greens cooking for although al although although though nearing her mile mlle milestone milestone stone Mrs Green is today to v a n famous cook coole No chickens are quite like those cooked by bya a southerner they thoy si Sy scy y an 3 I Mrs Greens Mississippi ancestry alone must be responsible for her cooking for she sh was waft but a 16 girl when her parents came camo here rl leaving their slaves and an their people J to conic come She sa says a she Sh never n yer learned earned cooking till tUl she began to keep house on 00 the tho sane samp spot sp t She supposes oses she just knew Descendants Number 4 Five Fhe sons sons and nd three daughters all of them living and Ud in a u measure well to todo todo 1 do are almost within call caU the one ana son 1 r Rush valley being farthest Jin n away aWa aWaT T e oldest daughter is now the mother I i I of ot thirteen m en r n children and all the tho others ath rs have havo large families so that more mare than 1 I a hundred children may mey bu bas b counted to them 1 Although the tho le e c of at lard land lying v t thin 1 the hollow was once unto the 1 property ropE prope r of ot George W V Gibson GibBon the I Greens have havo held beld i a j small mall part purt I u it t told one fide aide it old people to ata their remaining i m mr mn y have havo to v entire place I been will rind Hind r nd he is still tm 1 I farmer fie 7 r but It itis is a t plats placa of Or beauty Besides Bc ldes the Green ditch which runs through tho the dooryard the Big Cotton Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood wood cri ck flows 1103 along ulon its border and great trees larger than are uro found Jn Sn any other spot in the valley grow along tUong iU its border Bits of ot meadow men oW land are broken by picturesque corners in cultivation and a fine fruit orchard Is Isit Isaide I f ta tai u Is the purpose of t the theold theold stay atay on thee old aid farm for fori s sm years although they give e up the ne Rare rore Aare of l the which they have Mr shortly be SO 0 years of or age ager j ii iiI in active as a n I Ij |