Show HOW PIONEERS DID Bliclsmlli Billows From an Old Tubs and Rawhide KILLING 01 JiCOIl IVKATJIEUIIEl Tint mastered House In hall Lob First Crlibrillon 1 In Aognil 181SUrlnlTllrar1r i > money Coinage Me I Following li a copy ol 1 a letter written by A H L mb onof tula oily Chairman Clawson of the Pioneer Heru centennial commission and makes very Inteteatlng loading I crossed the plains from Mliiotirl river 10 this valley In 1847 My family who accompanied mo consisted or my wile Adobes J Lanib oi > daughter ol MarkandBu anuah BUier and our t b orj la Infant daughter Mtilisia J who now the wile ol lllihnp Albert W Day ol the Him of Divla liowo i Co or this city We left the camp nl Winter Quarters on the Mluourl rivet June 4u > and arrived In Hilt Like valley September ZSth 1847 We traveled In Capt I E K Fulleta ten Peregrine Sessions being the captain ol fitly and Daniel Span car the captain of one hunureJ I was the bleckimUh Peregrine Sesiloni cttnpany ol fifty which really conlated ol about sixty waitona I think I pasted Ihrouiih moil II I not all of the perplexing experiences and trying lroumlno Ineldont to my occupation throughout all that long dreary and tolleome Journey of three months and twentyone delta 1 ban provided myself wllb a bellows my own make Improvltej for tile occasion which I carried on a platform plat-form attached to the endgate ol my wagon It Was constructed out of a headless barrel or bottomless tub tapering from bottom to lop au thai I the boopa could be driven down I rom lime to time to keep It air tight with a wooden diaphragm and valve lo the middle Tu the top and bottom were attached leather or cowhide upon COUs with tile nectonaly airvalve arid bellows I handle anti leather vrl litse to be Joined to the tuyere ana lurnace fur the blast II was a completesucceas lu every particular although 10 cornparlson wittAtholso ponmoll 01 theta days II mlgt present mornew hat ungolllly appear Race For amall Incidental repair I would get my anvil on the ground dig a pit by Ibo Blue ol It to a convenient i depth to land In put up my bellows and go to wok In almost less I time Man It takes to tell it But for heavy walk lire elllng and Ibo like we would make au anvil block out of a tree stump or the body of It prepared and set In the ground lor tbe purpoae OD ono occasion with the orlu z red help ol Ibo camp and one or two skilled assistants under my ol I tee t lots we meaeured cut welded and met eightyfive Urea lu one day This occurred a abort distance wtai of old Fort Laramie before entering the Black Hili It Boon alter our arrival in the valley a company ol Spaniards Carre ID with a large band ol will a horses I bought I Save bead oltbom ODd with a half broken pD 01 theBe I hauled lot from Ibd Butte Canyon to hau C1186a saw mill bullion the spring creek running through what Is now Liberty Talk From these logs I obtained lumber for tbo building ol my bongo as It now stands on the corner or First Weal and North Tern pIa e I V Every nail uM ID COOL ilcucllon COO-L made on my anvil from old wagon tire Stan it is the nlll house bnlll In this city with a pltord celllmt 1 employed Benjamin W KulU to do the carpenter works and big brother Gilbert lljlfl did the plastering with clay bud aDd morlar there belog no lime at that time These were both workmen on the Temple Nauvoo rue adobes are of tile old Hpauiab style 18 Inches long 9 Inches wide and 4 lualles thick Sad were made by Joan B Martin mad Istael Evans two ol the Batlallou boys > and tney were laid Into the wells by Jacob iloOlnealio a member ol Ibo Mormon Battalion The old house itlll stands as when It was built except that It bill hall Its Iblro coverIng cover-Ing ot shingles Ibo first covering being of boards My house was com pitted and I moved Into It with my family In the fall ol 1848 I forged out ot wagon tires the mill Irons fop tbe first seven mills built In Utah with the exception of Isaac Chelsea mill the irons ef which be brought with film across the Plains I also forged t e die patches and In fact alt that pertained to the Desret mint except the drop or hammer wblob was forged at the bop ol Martin 11 Peck Jobn Kay cut the dies and coined the money WIIIIm Clayton and Thomas Bullock being associated wltb him In Ibis work aa accountant and weigher Before this was done Dr Richardson Richard-son weighed The gold dual brought from California by Ills Batlallou boya and others Into amall package done up In paper each package representIng represent-Ing from one dollar up lo twenty which passed current for money 1 mention tbeae facts for the reason bat I understand tile credit of doing some theme things baa been erroneously errone-ously given to other parties Thor 10 one 11101eDt which co curved near the Elk Horn rive that would make a thrilling thougu very brief chapter In tbe history ol my life and pioneer journey lo which 1 will only bristly allude as 1 do not know that pay reoord Was Over made oIt 1 WAS In COOOIODY with Jacob Wotbb IrnellDg with an u team and wagon from the K k Horn toward I Winter QutUre Wbou Less tbe Papas we wre atsoiedby D tripped to the bale akin Hut Armed with nuns while we weie uuarmej B Store they could shoot we each grappled With au aulagonlai bad K death struggle ensued bly oomtaul > u wiaabotaud killed by the ivaje while I was Miraculously ui livered Ills body wife taken back to trie ElE Horn and burled noir III banks I rcaoned she camp li safety though exbanitad by excite mont lallgue and hunger Juit befoie the report came lo my wile slue t 1 bola been slain by ludlanr At the moment mo-ment however this word molD bills bill-s I was rllnl luldle wagon under her care Early In tbo print or ISO Vat grlne BtMlonrcaue to rap sets naked II I could make a trap that w old holD Ktlnlybtarlaying the teats were hill It g muff block < In and araukd No tit Mill Crook Davis ojuuiy i made tli 0 trap and only a tw year etoro bll I death be told ineth at try an ty be an bn bo bD oaD bt Ib t ol Uoo 1 wlsb lomakoariquuit that the putty now bnlogllia big rosivasloss will b sure to have the same unlbiled at our coming Jubllrr I woulJ jive more lo sets h1 trap than any relic I can call to Blind ol those early days I desire lo call to notice the Fault which was orientated by Elder 1 P Plats lobe sung at our lint hat ni feasts which was celebrated at the 0 d Foil on August lOtn 1813 UBVIIIK no way then of printing It oinle were written Ana ulitrlbulcd among Ibo few old Tittan tlnuela that belonged be-longed to tbe Nauv choir and li Mrs Mo J Lamtiton bat tigs Ibo honor of preierviui Ihe xIII log COl I have bee on two failed l > ur My first was lo the plate of Virginia In 1844 but 01 the death ol the Proi bet Joseph Smllh and bit roilier llyrum I was called borne to Nsuvoo Ml second wile I I tire I wt Indian Ili I company com-pany with Aaron FArr Dr llicnsrd IOU And Jee e Turilu but not succeed left theta lu edeoilng an opening I w returned to the United State and 1 1311 fllloJ my raliiiuu laboring 1 Mlcbl gets where I batid a uuoiber ol people and or4anzod three branches of the Church In 1850 1 led Utah and went tc t Nebraaka 1 located at Florence and carried on the business 01 blacksmith log there OD IT mowlt tOIIVo 010 for about Ion years 1 was en acted ID the hitless 01 01 wIIO aDd lu tile work ol general uUckimUhln and outfitting the numerous eml slant trains from year to year Ihlr belcit the general uu filling and start ut point fr the extensive travel o theme times across the Plains lor Utah and tile great Vast Loam now In mv 77th year My wife wil7On the Z4tu of March last We bate Ibleo diubiets and one soi all ol Whom ale married and have faiQllIee Our grandchildren number IhlityBlx an j our great tandchlldreu III AIlIUD II 1 LAUUtUN |