Show KNOW KNOW I UTAH I I By ALBE ALBERT T F. F pI PHILIPS the iho Spaniards under command of rather ather Escalante In the eighteenth nth century century- made mad made their pilgrimage into Utah an anti and Invaded what is noW noto known as s tho Sevier valley vaney named after aler the river river- riverby by that name ame the they called the river the Santa Isabele and andic thc tho ic v valley H y was likewise given the same hame name old Spanish records making references to it i in 1 several instances The discovery ry of the riv r and the and the valley vaHey b by y Father Escalante wa waS in 1776 Later the river alley and Lake Lako Sel r were called Ashley the name being given by hy traders and ana trappers of the Rocky Hocky l Mountain Fur Tur company There Thel has long been a controversy con- con as to th the origin of ot the name nanie Se Sevier Jer but historians haQ at t last agreed th that t it was v name named after after fter an old Indian fighter Brigadier Genes General al John evler SevIer of Kentucky th the name be being ng given by WilHam Vil Wil- ham lam Ham of Kentucky who about 1830 sought bought to find now trapping grounds in the mountains and a party vI visited the S Seller Sevier Ier valley Tile The State Historical f society in its HR efforts to ascertain the facts of f the tho matter obtained from Enoch Jorgensen of S d in 1910 tho the most t authentic information upon th the 10 subject Ills His letter to he lie society follows Tho The Spaniards under i in iii 1776 1776 who first entered that valley called th tip tho river s 's Santa nt Isabele isabela Isa- Isa bele bela ele and the valley of Santa Is Isabele bele is occasionally referred to in old Id Spanish records but the valley river and lake as now known were named after BrigadIer General John Sevi Sevier r of Kentucky k who was very ery active as an Indian fighter an and a a solver of or S western problems problem from about 1790 to 1875 name nime vas as waR at high tide when William of o Ken- Ken came w west st and began trapping and trading around round around San Santa lo Fe New Mexico S 5 I lit In In 1830 organized a a. party at Toas whose object was vas to find new trapping grounds In the he California mountains Th They Y found tho the old Escalante Escalante Es- Es calante trail north and nd w west st cr crossed tho Grand river iver where Moab Io is now crossed the Green river near the 1 present resent site of Green River City thence j journeyed urne ed almost due west to to about where Eme Emery y now Is thence up ui- ui Ivy cre creek 1 and down SaUna Salina caryon canon car can can can- yoi yon on to the Sante Is Isabele bele Put But ut their record uses the name nam Sevier the earliest origin that tha t I can rind ind bo so my conclusion is that it was William Vol Wolf skill kill of Kentucky vho J named the valley and river Sevier S Mr Jorgensen gives excerpts from rom American History History and Its Geographic Conditions by Semple in n which he- he sa says s 's the they followed folioed d up up the Sevier almost al most to the rita rim of th the basin then worked th their ir way ay westward to California The basin referred to toIs toIs' toIs tos Is Is' Is s near Panguitch Mr 11 Jorgensen believes In conclusion conclusion con con- elusion the letter says says- Tra Traders ers and trappers of ot the he Rocky Mountain Fur Tur comp company ny called Sevier lake ake Ashley lake and it may be the river was was simi arly spoken of but the name Sevier first used by Vo If skill was as ever after to designate the longest river of the great t b basin sin legio Sixteen years years' after the plon pion pioneers ers came to th the Salt Lake Lale and the great empire In Iii inthe the he mount mountain ln country it was was decided to open the Sevier valley vailey t to settlement This This' was was in the sum summer sum mer of 1863 and the possibility of the Sevier valley y ya a as an agricultural section of Utah was first t talked of George Georg A. A Smith believed in the this possibilities of the section and nd d he was a vigorous advocate ate of opening g it to settlement He lIe was a co CoUsin cosin sin of Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham Young YounS and in later years was recognized as th h father of th the the- southern settlement in the t terri tern tory I S r S Tile Tie pleading of George Albert Albeit Smith fin finally lly bore fruit for his vigorous advocacy of that section of the ter territory as an a agricultural section r resulted in Brigham Young sending a pa party t to th the Sevi Sevier r valley valley val val- ley Icy to Investigate conditions S SS S George W W. Bean was selected to to I lead aAl the party from Provo into the Sevier valley On da n J July ly 15 of that year ea cai he be and ai d his small company o of men left lef left Provo Tho party c consisted of George Georgo W. W Bean nJohn John W. W Turner William Faus Tausett tt SlI Silas s Smith 1 Smith and Abraham Holiday They proceeded to n In Sa peto county then the most southerly southerly southerly south south- erly s settlement In Utah i. New York scientists who vho are studying smoke in behalf of the city's health may have hav a hard time gaining admittance to te the ladles ladies Wednesday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon bridge clubs I |