Show UE IS A IMUNEEIt Acd IT ui Itsocalid ul 111 Miny Ira l onant Jlovrmrnis In I lite Lirly lllilorj r Uiah HlRlNdvlLLK May 31E97 To the KJUor1 Thinking that you woud Ilka to bear from an old Pioneer from Bprlng vl lid lend Ibo following ekelcb I wai born in Ceulervllle Delaware Dela-ware October 0 1827 from which place I emigrated with my mother to Nauvoo where wojoluej the Cuurcn InlSO I wi ivllli tbe Church during dur-ing III perieculloui and wai Inllmale ly acquainted wild tbe Prophet Joseph being one ol bll body guard nd lived Wllb the family alter bla death I tell tbo Mansion Utuie to drive team for Joieph Young arriving at Wlulor Quartern lu the fall of 1843 aud Ibo lollowlng iprlng Hurled lu I A O Buiooa company lor Ihe Itoiky Mounlalu arriving In Halt Like Valley Bepteuibtr 23 1S47 I wn tered with Vincent Bhurtlill woiklnn rr ny ooarJ 1 w waUD bJ trade aud worked on all tbe old pub llo buildings of bill Like worked ou tbe leoiple wall liming llllce Council Homo and Preeldeut Yuuuga while biuo on the hill I nlao built a bouie for Bro her John Van OIt lu Ihe Fourteenth ward one ol Ibo Urn I ben e lUtilde of Ihe Forl The adobei worolllhlO luchta long and nine Ide widI I workd 01 my Irdllnllilb fall ol 1849 wuui I waioatled logo wllb P P Pratt aud fifty other to explore Ihe loulbem route lo Ibe ooait Whllu ou tbli trip we erected tbe lecnnd liberty pole lu ILe Territory on Ild ciuek Ironoiunly Hamming lu the t ring of i860 I wa > ailed I with Kbralm llauaiaul Buney ward lo carry Inloimatlon toand pilot tbe company com-pany tbat were then oltlog the Plaint In 1662 I waa called by Preildnl You K I 10 KO to Fort Ltramle lo take crgo 01 a brd 01 Uhu rcb klo < k which wo bn I Ua I when w-hen cltlled hl h Uborou 0 IfU I jlIoolelo 001 uulldlo ILofiuk nu rflulD 10 tIlllok Ior I orkd ul 00 ud uOIIl1854 bOD I wa marrl1I and IIIOVod 10 Bpnugvllle participating lu all Ibo ludlin wari of IbKt BFctlou and In de JGh December ef 1S50 I went with a com lany to anlet tbe handcart compiny acron tho Plalh II being winter an Jib in JIT deep imr horui could let nothing eat but tbe topi of col Ion wood Ircei which we cut down for Ibem In the followlnr iprlng I wai called by Prtildent Yuog ta go lo the Mliiru I river with the amoo Y X Co to build elation and iinbllibBd a ilage route acron the Greil American deierf but receiving word thai m more mall wtuw be leui to Utah uuly uuder rallltary etcarl if e wr cHllud home I hkve iluce lived at Bprlngvllle except ex-cept two jean that I waa In Banpete nllln Iort In lb Indian WDra lb I am 70 yeari ef agr and I feel 1 well paid fur lh work 1 bav done and the hardiblpi I have e dured In looking back and noting Ibo growth ot our beautiful Blate and the advancement of tbe cauteof truth GEOKCIB B MATSON |