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Show Fifty-seven years ago today the plo-neers, plo-neers, -under the leadership of Brigham .-Young, first entered the valley of the Great Salt Lake. After a Journey lat- ' Ing over three months. this bodyof men, with throe -women, looked -with disap- pointmont upon the promised land, for It ! i ' nn at that time, all ih( appearances I of an arid plain with the exception of the cotton woods and willows that de- t noted the streams. They were rugged j men and had passed through many i hardships during the preceding years, I but their work has not to end with the I entrance to this region. The spirit of I tho frontier was strongly engrafted fl . within and no soonc-r had 'Salt Lake been . J settled and thousolids were coming into l tho valley, aD they did that fall and the 1 ' whole of 1S1$, than the original pioneer l ' bands -had become scattered. Some of . I ' the same names appeared amongthose I who went to Davis county, the first Hj i , outside region settled by ihe Salt Lakers, j i Next came "Weber county and again the , names were recognized. And after Wc- j ber followed Washington, Summit, I Green River and Carson. When the counties of Utnh had been settled the , I pioneer spirit did not find rest for Idaho ' I ; and Arizona had to be peopled and ho ; many of tho men who first entered Salt i t " Lake within ten years were liviug far ), away. i It seems a strange destiny that thew , t men, who might have been the ones to . i derive all tl:e Avealth that this country . i afforded,' should, in a great measure, j U i have pasEed into oblivion. It was truly Hj ' '.V j1 nature's storehouse they entered on that M ' day In July, and yet they did not know A I it and others have gradunlly reaped the 1 reward that might have been theirs. U The years passed and au one by one Hi f ; 1 the pioneers parsed Into obscurity, death l : alco began to overtake them and. ho tho . records show, many were unknown even to the historians, thirty years after the . ,i settlement. l 1 jj! Many passed away in California, H! ; , whither they had llnally emigrated.- wp- l 'I; sibiy In the search for gold or otherwise L to better their fortunes. Arizona held , 1 H! many of them in after years, but from j J there 4hey moved to other places, and so have become lost to any friends they may have had in this city. Of the- original pioneer band, those who arrived herefrom the Missouri river riv-er fifty-seven yoars ago today, there remains but fifteen survivors eo far as can be ascertained. Tho oldest of the survivors is Bu years old and the young--est 64. Their names and ages are: George V. Brown, 77; Thomas P. CIo-ward, CIo-ward, SI; Franklin B. Dewey. 75; Isaac Perry Decker. ,61; Ozro F. Eastman. 7G; John S. Gleason. So; Conrad Klelnman, SO; John W. Morton, $A; A. P. Shumway, 71; W. C- A. Smoot, 76; James W. Slew-art, Slew-art, SO; Samuel Harvey Marble. SI? Horace- Thornton, S2: W. P. Vance. S2; Lorenzo Lo-renzo S. Young, C3. At the Pioneer Jubilee seven years ago, twenty-eight survivor were located and since then Samuel H. Marble was found to be alive, although he was not recorded at the lime of the Jubilee. This makes a total of twenty-nine, but since the great semi-centennial many have passed away, their names being Lyman Curtis. Joseph Egbert, A. F. Farr. Green Flake, S. IT. Goddard. C. A. Harper, Stephen Kelsey. Levi Kendall, Norman Taylor, Charles Shumway. Henson "Walker, "Wal-ker, George Woodnrd and George War-die. War-die. , The record of the living pioneers has been carefully preserved, but it is barely bare-ly possible that the list may be even smaller than that given above, owing to the fact that moot of them lived, when lust heard from, In faraway places, while fome have not been heard from since the Jubilee. Should any person, -therefore, have any additional iiowb of tho fifteen names firt mentioned above, it would be received with appreciation by The Tribune. Many letters sent to former addresses have not been answered, an-swered, but aa the letters were not returned re-turned it Is safe- to assume that thev were delivered to the fifteen pioneers. Tho only survivor of the famous band in thin county Is W. C A. Sinoot of Sugar Su-gar ward. Utah county ha two In tho porsons of John S. Glenson and Thomas P. Cloward, tho latter being the most interesting in-teresting figure In the recent Old Folks' excursion to. Spanish Fork. -Wasatch county has one, Garfield county one, Emery county one Sanpete one, Arizona thre, Idaho one, Nevada, one, Wyoming one. not located one. ' Thcso figures and names only refer to those of tho original band, tho party ' 1 which started from tho Missouri river In April 14. 1817, and arrived here on July 21!-2-i of theisame yenr. As might be remembered re-membered by those who followed the hlstorv of tho tTip, several of the pioneers pio-neers returned from Green river, while a party of twelve soldiers of the Mormon battalion came up from Pueblo and Joined the party, arriving here with them. The Grow family also came Into the valley, .having likewise joined the Pioneers. The names of all who entered the valley are recorded with the exception excep-tion of the twelve soldiers, and In none of the published books on the subject can this record be found. While the pioneer band will always be entitled to the credit of being the first settlers and having made the whol overland trip, yet It Is a matter of historical interest to know the names of all who entered during dur-ing the three days, July 22,' 23 and 21. The names of those who went back and the never-to-be-forgotten names of Isa Vlnda Exene Crow and Ira Mlnda Al-marene Al-marene Crow appear in all the books, but to this day the names of the twelve-soldiers twelve-soldiers have not been published. fAfter the exodus from Nauvoo th Mormons scattered, but a large proportion propor-tion of them formed a temporary settlement settle-ment lato in 1S4S at a place they called Winter Quarters. It was located on the west bank of tho Missouri and la now called Florence. Neb., being a few miles nortlfwest of Omaha. It was here that Erlglfam Young made his final plans for crossing the plains to the Salt Lake basin, ba-sin, the leaders many years before having hav-ing selected this region as a place for possible refuge. And bo it happened that In tho spring of 1SI7 all was in readiness for the great trip, and tho start was made on April 14 amid pleasing pleas-ing auspices. The story of the trip has been told time and again, and there is no necessity of repeating it now. The exact number of souls starting from Winter Quarters was 149. The total to arrive here, owing to the changes above noted, amounted to 15'J. The survivors, portrait? of whom form the feature of this article, refer to the original number. num-ber. 14(). Owing to the fact that the pioneer band has been slowly decreasing In number of survivors, it has become customary cus-tomary collectively to refer to all who came in 1S47 as "pioneers." The emigration emi-gration amounted in all .that year to 2095 souls, and It is likely that there are hundreds of survivors of these old settlers set-tlers scattered through the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain States. What a wonderful change these men have witnessed In the fifty-seven yenrs of their life beyond the Missouri. Their first trips were mnde through a region almost entirely given over to the buffalo and the Indian. After a couple of years In this city they began to see the passage pass-age through the valley ojf the thousands whew were going to California owing to the discovery of gold, a quest in which many from Utah Joined. In quick succession suc-cession the wagohs of '40 gave place to the stage coach and playing important parts were the- pony express and the telegraph. tel-egraph. Along in 1S69 came the railroad and first among those to help work on the grade were members of the pioneer band. That year marked the! beginning of Utah's greatness, for with the building build-ing of the Pacific roads local lines were thought of and it was but a short time before a local company had "been start- ed. Tho mines began to disgorge their wealth and other cities than the capital assumed arc Important role In the march of progression. Development of every every kind followed the mines and railroads rail-roads and all during the period the sage brush lands were changed to green lu-cern lu-cern or wheat fields, their borders gradually grad-ually reaching far out and the Annual harvests being each year larger than before. What they think of Salt Lake today can only be conjectured, but In the Bhort space of time they have lived in the West they have seen it develop into the great metropolis, and In a few more years they will be able to witness almost as much improvement. It is the pioneer generally in whose honor the elebratlon tomorrow will be given In Salt Lake, but it is only In memory of tho original band .iw -day Is set aside as a holiday li. It was a body of young aS'M men that made the- first sattleiMWSJ. of the number the sun Ivors ajMf U; sented in a little band of wbUaUj veterans living in rural retlremeMtj Idaho to Arizona. Dayc,VfME:tV wealth and Influence of Ea,uJKiL. creases, but to th"T It matterepgg. tie. as they now have fen, "jfMt, hore. Interest Is shown m c. "ki settlers cf the State no uia,lJfMffea they came, but the rJory mU being In the first rompar.y can.JW?4e diminished and it I'.' the Mfcl-I of all that thope who reir.ai.i otsXS. table- bnnd rosy yet Ilv" to loa?'t a Utho of fot.c of " 0 JfPnt treasure repreenU j in olue e,Pft and about the cit they fourte |
