Show KNOW UTAH I IBy L 8 By ALBERT F. F PHILIPS George H. H Crosby was waa talking lIe He 1 Js' Js a a. p native of ofU U Utah h but lt has re resided at nt Evanston Wyo o was ns Ho was in tn a 0 reminiscent t mood 1 last evenIng c and n recalled many things things about Jim Bridger and nd Colonel Ashley both bothof of ot whom horn were Utah pioneers S S Mo Moat t. t Utah historians Just tell ten how v TIm Jim Bridger gave Brigham Young oung to understand that he felt feU sure corn com would never ripen In the valley vaney of ot the Gr Great Gret S Salt lt Lake L. basin and then dismissed him hint as a character character char char- acter In Sn Utah's history It Is 15 all 11 too low lowan an of ot what ho he means in the history of ot Utah Utah- Crosby grosby said S The winter that thai turned 20 ho he was at nt the headwaters at Bear river witha n oth other r trappers trap trap- pers ers era and ando anda a warm argument ent was had x as s to the he co course r e ot Bear river Some maintained t that att it emptied led into th the Columbia river others declaring that it was a a. fork rork of ot the Green river then bearing the name of ot SpanIsh Span Spanish SpanIsh Span Span- ish river held that it sank in the desert and still said that it had an Independent mo mouth th into the p Pacific oc ocean nn Bridger foll followed wed it in the spring of ot 1824 to ascertain its course course and discovered the Gr Great t Salt lake which had hadl missed missed- d by such euch a n narrow w margin 1 48 years e s before r- r C Not having at twenty years the judgment of ot elevations eie- eie elf ele for which he lat later r became noted ho mistook k the lake for tor an n arn rm of t the Pacific Pa but h he followed oUo ved up his explorations of ot the river and its valley aUe and most all of oC the ear earlier Her information that Brigham Yo Young ng learned of them is Is' Is traceable back to to th the old mountaineer Then too the locators of ot the Union Pacific railroad railroad rail rail- road found tho the Rocky regions so big bij that they hey Just could riot find th their lr way vay arid and they they- sent for tor Bridger He w was s the real locator locator- of that first trans transcontinental c continental road C C Bridger discovered o ered South pass also and without ltd Its Is being known the overland traffic that resulted hithe In hi the he settlement of ot Utah would never never have ha have e b been n bit ble le GIvot Bridger a bigger place in Utah's history 1 If f you want to write it corie correctly Uy C C C O one eman man of ot the pioneer period who has shaped a a. gre great t d deal history and perhaps even more moro of is General W W. v 1 H IL Ashley Ashley h had ld been been beena a a. general gener l of or the the Missouri militia and in the early he Into the fur tur tr trading his first field being mostly in Utah which Is now Utah now Utah a and d. d Wyoming It was brought Jim Bridger out here iere H He He of ot Utah's i romI- romI J ent stream from Sp Spanish rIver to to Green river The Te wat water r has hns a n. greenish tinge and lie he may have hive h had Jad d that In mind But h his hs s great o object jed was' was to o 0 honor one one Dt of his most substantial busIness associates a a. Mis Mis- I named Green Henrys Henry's fork partly a n Utah stream he named for tor forone one of ot his his' trappers Andrew Henry lenry and Blacks Black's fork a 0 Ut Wyoming Utah river fiver Is b named for one ono of his traders Dan Black 0 C Ashley valley arid Ashley fork in basin are re both pained named for him and ho named other streams mountains and and valleys ys Ashley whose home was in St. St Lo Jo l i. i w was one ono of ot the best business men unless ss it was J Jphn hn Jacob Astor that ever went Into western western west west- em ern fur fur trading and more than that Ji he w was wasa s' s sn a n. scientist t and geographer Ills His early st studios dI had nd I I am Jold told much to do with th the later Inter stud study research and d exploration of ot Major John Wesley Vesle Powell o He made a a. fort fortune no out out out-of ot the fur trade and retired l Inthe in inthe the middle thirties |