| Show III A HUNDRED YEARS AGO Fishermen Give Camp Welcome Diet Chancie By MELBA IEL A MADSEN EN ROUTE TO UTAH April 19 1847 1847 Ono One snapping turtle four small turtles one duck two small catfish and two creek creck suckers suckers- these were the prize catch of a fishing trip taken by Luke S. S Johnson Johnson Johnson John John- son and Stephen Markham In the leather boat we call the Revenue I Cutter Editor Editors note This ThU is the in a U series of articles about the westward ml migration of the L D S pioneers pioneer Presented here Is a n nc c day day-by-day h account of the life and times of oC the Saints Saint Tonight A Hundred Years Year Ago AJo Today will wili be narrated nt at 1010 pm p.m. o over station KALE HALL ItAI Tune In rr e every cry evening c nt this time on on your jour our dial One cant can't help laughing at the tremendous possibilities for feeding a of hungry travelers which this catch afforded but no noone noone noone one was downhearted because no matter what the luck a fishing trip Is always worth it It-In It in fun and in tall tales about the big ones that got away This is our diversion after a n long weary day of travel during which time we ve have come about 20 miles mUes traveling over a level table land Jand and through country which was I quite hilly with steep bluffs sloping slopIng slopIng slop- slop Ing down to the river At one time we traveled tra through a compact mass mas of graves grnes marking the spot where a battle had recently been fought by the Indians Y r t ts s William Clayton Develops dc device to measure miles mitu covered co Of almost making history importance Importance Importance Im Im- today ti was as a suggestion made by William Clayton to Orson Pratt of a project to construct a aset aset aset set of wooden cogs on the hub of a wagon wheel in such a manner as ns asto asto to tell the exact number of miles traveled each day Up to this time Mr Clayton had measured the distance traveled by bythe bythe bythe the pioneer band by measuring the circumference of ot a wheel on one of the wagons and then tying some red flannel on the spoke near the tire He marched by that wheel con constantly counting its revolutions and at the end of ot each day determined determined determined deter deter- mined the distance traveled Mr Claytons Clayton's idea for tor the new I device which seemed a simple device device device de de- de- de vice which could be easily constructed constructed con con- and which he calls caUs a was received enthusIastically enthusiastically enthusiastically en en- by the pioneers and already many of ot us are thinking up plans for practical application of ot the scheme I About the most Important thing happening in the camp today however however however how how- ever was the return to camp of ot our scouts Jesse C C. Little R. R Jackson Jackson Jackson Jack Jack- son Redden O. O Porter Rockwell and Thomas Brown who overtook us with a packet of ot 30 letters Jetters from our loved ones back in Winter Vinter Quarters just as we were halting for the noonday rest |
