| Show U I-U I In nth the e Beg Beginning inn i n 9 By Ml s Goodyear Utah's First Citizen Mormons w were re pretty thick in Utah Ulah the first few years and Hwe if H we count with them the one or two non non Mormons M that tha came with them and adhered faithfully ully to their program we have only to buy buyout out Miles Good Goodyear ar at Ogden to make it unanimous And Was vas Miles willing Why actually Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham YoUng with an offer oHer to purchase purchase pur pur- chase chas had personal resemblances in iii Goodyears Goodyear's mind to Santa Claus Glaus himself U. U Only as it de developed In Inthe Inthe inthe the sequel Goodyear had about as little utile to offer offer as the proverbial bad badboy badboy badboy boy at Christmas time It that in the early carly Miles Mile Goodyear Goodye r came west with one of ot the many fur lur trapping companies com panics and without the middle M. M sometimes given h him m at about the age of 17 Like most surviving Wrappers trappers he he married an Indian woman and after ter the fur trapping era began to wan he laid aId up his log hut at nt the present site gite of ot Ogden Utah probably among his wit wife's s 's rich relations and set sel sether ct her to farming usual style He did not have hae a grant from the Mexican government any my than more than the Indians In had so EO 0 far as any ny record shows Oregon Oreton Trail Party This was In Jn th the summer Bummer of 1846 just a year before the Mormons entered en en- tei d the Salt Lake valley and erected their domiciles s with wilh a similar similar similar simi simi- lar want of authority from the Mexicans About July 29 1846 1840 two emigrant parties emerged merged from Weber canyon canon rounding Great Salt lake to the south routh the diarists ot ut which did not see O Goodyears Goodyear's post one stating staling afterward the hut was built later that season But within a few lew weeks of ot that same sam date it may have been earlier but probably probably probably ably later scouts from an Oregon Trail party visited and reported the Goodyear cabin a as having been built bunt some time And that is s all aU we will ever ver know of ot its it building John R. R McBride an emigrant to Oregon in 1840 1846 he hel l later t r went vent to congress from Oregon Ore Ore- gon goil arid and still later r dame came to Utah a aa as asa a territorial officer remaining t to practice l law hew W dt after r that re the Spit Salt Lake valley ly y as ac a Ju It l a detour from the Oregon Trail at Soda Springs and returning to it at nt Fort Hall flail Pocatello on horseback horse back traveling in fri company with several other emigrants g gUided by bythe bythe bythe the well known Joseph Walker guide to Fremont Goodyear Clothes Army We encamped at th the crossing of the Ogden river McBrIde writes In the delta between the Ogden and the Weber rivers At the camp was a cabin built of cottonWood logs It Il had been occupied the year before by a trader whose name nom Was Wa known and nd m mentioned by our Jur trapper trapper trap trap- per friends but he h had d gone north they stated to th the Yellowstone The other diarists thus seem to have merely missed Sed seeing the cabin but at that a later report indicates the probability that GO Goodyear Goodyear Good Good- d- d year established d himself there late in 1846 At any rate Goodyear had the good sense to go 10 to California Call Cali fornia forhia for lor th that t winter just like a alot alot alot lot of or do to this day dayl Some that thel dont don't live in log cabins too Edwin Bryant sojourning in Los Angeles from January 14 to 29 1847 writ writes this in his journal A AR R Rocky Hocky mountain trapper an and trader trad trad- er Mr r. r Goodyear ear Who has established established himself near the Salt l lake since I passed there last ye year r July 1846 fortunately arrived at Los Angeles AngelS bringing with him a quantity quan quan- thy of ot dressed ed deer and elk skins Which were purchased for clothing for the nearly naked soldiers r General Germ Gen eral Kearney's dragoons Shows Go Goodyears Goodyear's enterprise Tup Trapper er Grew Corn The next record Is dated August 9 1847 in Jim the journal of ot John JohnBrown JohnBrown JohnBrown Brown I started north with a littie little lit lit- tie tle exploring company with Captain Cap Cap- tain thin James Brown et al on their way to California At Weber river we found the fort of Mr Goodyear which consisted of ot some log buildings buildings build build- ings ing and corrals in with pickets This man had a herd of ot cattle horses horse and arid goats goots He had hada a small mall garden gardei of ot vegetables also alo alon a n few stalks stalk of corn and although it had been neglected it looked well which proved d to us that with prop proper r cultivation corn would do well B. B bcd I 1st to menU mention n the place October 23 1847 continued down the valley val val val- ley Icy from low loWer r B Bear ar River valley on the Way from Fort Hall and anti California and passed some salt hot springs in sight of or a part of oC Salt Lake about 25 23 miles and arrived arrived ar at- rived at a settlement of the Ut w Indians wh where r we f found und a n white whiteman whiteman m man n With his flo flocks ks about him of horses cattle sheep and ad goats goals He Informed Us we W were in 40 10 miles of th the church he told Us its Sea wagons wag wag- oils ons had arrived besides the pioneers pioneers plo pio pio- pio ners and soldiers Indicating the grapevine gossip lines were already operating The report also indicates indi yates cates something in regard to th the population at Ogden Go Goodyear Visits Pioneers At the Mormon high council m meeting eting in Salt Lake November 9 1847 H Henry G. G Sherwood reported report report- ed that President Brigham Young had expressed the desire that the G Goodyear claim on the Weber river should be purchased by the Saints Ira Eldredge David Spencer and Henry G. G Sherwood were appointed appoint appoint- ed a committee for the purpose of oC collecting the means if it po possible to buy out ut Mr Ml Goodyear November NO 11 tn the committee report reported d that they had been unsuccessful in raising the means November Miles 16 1847 Mr Goodyear who owned a ranch on the Weber rivet river arrived in Salt Lake City on a n visit to the pioneer colony November tho the high council decided that Henry G. G Sherwood and Captain James Brown just In from California should purchase the Goodyear ranch on the Weber river it if it could be obtained on fair terms A later entry says By advice of ot the council Captain Brown purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased the place and property for lor 1950 cash down On December 28 1847 1817 the tho high council minutes show that live five perSons per per- Sons son going to California in the Capacity capacity capacity ca ca- of ot truants if t f their methods are arc understood were turned back but allowed to proceed with Mr Mt Goodyear And on January 0 1843 Captain Brown Bro and his family fain fam ily lIy with Brother Mrs Myers Mr and md their families fam fam- flies have moved to td Goodyear ear f J |
