| Show KNOW UTAH U T AH AHBy t Li By A BE T F. F PHILIPS J I Lack Laek of or k knowledge g of ot b boundary lines es played pla d some strange fr aks with early arlY day history ot of Utah said Gorge George H Hi Cr Cf Crosby Jr of ot Evanston vanston Wo Wyo and anda a a. native na of t Utah last evening He was waa as In Salt tion with Ith legat legall matters rs regard regard- La LaJ In Connection c n ne e omo Bomo fag Ing ng arly surveys surveys ur In thesta Along Iong In the tho ml middle de- de the t territorial legislature got unusually bus busy Mr Crosby c continued and created Rio Rio Virgen nty from the west ut end of ot Washington county count and then when hen tho the citizens ot of southwestern rn Utah began to organize I It all of r the county th that t. t was of ofin in value vallie was wa l In that strip that Nevada Nevoda obtained from irom rom Utah In 1566 after Nevada a. a had bad been admitted ml t Into th tho Union two y years ars and Had lind two s e senators and eloquent Tom Toni Fitch the ton tongued silver rUed orator to help th the Silver er state get wh what t it want wanted off oft Uta Utah and ind nd Arizona q Mistaken boundary lIn lines sn Mr Crosby continued aSs as 1 have ha v aId Fald not hot only played d strange freaks but It c used a. a fre l deal de of ot tr over title to J lands There liere re the citizens ot of Panacea whoa who In the the dayi ay oC ot felt sure that their t town wn was in Utah the boundary line Uno just between be their town land and P che so th they went t. t ane for tr B several rn 1 their heir taxes to the Washington county count Utah tax collectors and then the boundary boundary- was surveyed and ind Panacea was found to be well into tho s 's state state- e o of Nevada ada Then tho Nevada taxing authorities l s suits back taxes The s settlers lost In n the the district court b but t on on appeal l peat to the th supreme urt ot of lower court was reversed C S You fou know ow how it was was' that That Idaho had hal Its first town own d at at Th v settlers believed that thi they hey were tere ere In Utah and affiliated governmentally with Utah for tor many years That was when the Idaho oJ was as in 1 and Idaho Idabo at that not claim anything gold dredging diggings v. v Tho The last bo boundary nd ry line trouble is iii th the of Rich county Utah Richland c county nty was as firSt first named f les' les C C. h.- h. hearly an an- early day daya day apostle apostle of ot tho the day LaUer latter Saints and tile tho father r of ot Ben n E E. licit lUch of ot Salt Lake Lako county and ad a a n noted ted mission n dent The affairs ot Richland of-Richland d and Rich c county were In n ged from fron St. St Charles with a. a we well 1 kept and com com- ly or county with full official r roster raster r from rom early ealy until 1872 when the people to fo that St be been n in Oregon or In Idaho rr aft after r its creation In 1863 all th the and never was was' was In Utah so Randolph b. b dolph I iwaS' iwaS S' S Sm m mado do the c count county s seat at In 1372 S The The agricultural history of Wyoming started t wl with li the the th history ry ryot of ot Utah In 1853 when vh n ot of Jim John Young bought Fort Bridger er r- r the 8 have been some e of ot Utah's ta s 's earliest pioneers took a a a. Mormon ormon tanners farmers ra ieri out to Fort lort Bridger g r and Isaac Bullo Bullock k soon soon followed with a second O nd co company pany They hey soon soon Boon ch charged Bridger from Or a n fur fur- trading ur post to town and also went s south about t ten tn n miles t to the foot of ot the Uintah range ranga of ot mo mountains and founded rounded Fort S Supply a second agricultural town to andin nd In In 1856 founded Q Sup Supply up ply City os a. a third They were all burned during Johnstons Johnston's army days army days das and In in n 1858 Fort Fon r was made into a a. military P post st s S tho eleven Cleyen ye years enis a bet between n then and the organization of ot Wy Wyoming into a. a teri territory territory-in in July arid and August Fort was as Utah's one one and only Indian military post s with rs r's de detailed n d to hold Incheck Incheck in incheck check the sand land Shoshones Its history then was wa largely a co counterpart t to that that that-of J Fort C. C S S 'S i It Jt ut was as in 1857 that Johnstons Johnston's army invaded ut Utah h It was In September that Captain Van VIlet of ot General Harneys Harney's staff arrived in j Salt Lake and helda conference with Brigham Young on a tho th con conditions conditions con con- as u the they then in November th the United United Unit Unit- ed States arm army under under tinder General Johnston li reached Fort I. I rt Id to took k possession of ot the a supply ppl fort on Green Gr en river 1 |
