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Show Graoile Shaft to Explorer Bridger Honor to Memory of Famous Guide Who Discovered Salt Lake and "Yellowstone Park. KAKSAS CITY, Doc 11. A monument ovor the gravo of Jim Bridger, tho famous fa-mous guldo and oxploror, who discovered Great Salt lake and Tollowstono park and who oponed the overland trail, was dedicated dedi-cated In Mount Washington cometery today. to-day. It was erected by Gen. Gronvlllo M. Dodgo of Now York, tho enginoor who located tho Union Paclflo railroad, and who followed the route advised by Bridger. 1 The monument is a masslvo block of rough-hown granite, with the head of tho scout In bas-rcllcf and a chronicle of his most noteworthy achievements. Gren. Dodgo was unablo to participate in tho exercises, owing to Illness, but tho ad-diese ad-diese he had prepared, an affectlonato eulogy of the old plainsman, was read and a great granddaughter of Bridger unveiled un-veiled tho stone. Gen- Dodgo's address told of how Bridger Brid-ger dcBcended Bear river in a boat and supposed, on reaching Oreat Salt lako. that the watsr was an arm of tho Paclflo Pa-clflo ocean; of how Brldgor's account of the wonders of tho Yollowstono park was scoffod at as preposterous, and of how Dr. Whitman, the Oregon missionary, cut out an Indian arrow head that had been In Brldgor's back for years. |