Show I Before fore Nevada Was Vas C Carved arve Fro an Vestern estern Borde order I relation of cada to Utah Utahn jIB n has been heen nn I one owl U It la I u n whether I neighbor on tho cill la Is lat most properly a 11 slater or n 1 t bI called t The Tho fact that Utah Utahn r Included not nolan only Nevada but bul n on portions of or Colorado i w nw l Ore on V to consideration as nil something of ot otI hr of western and In I was her hor most moat fa orf child Time was the tho member from county sat In Iho tho Utah Legis lalur al Salt e and wan ad administered ministered in Carson volley by the If 0 tin Third Judicial district ot Utah men dill did the pioneering j In Illon work descendants aro living lIllig In III Halt Ink of or the Ihl mun who settled Carson Cirson county coun of or the man mun who built Its house tile house In Ne first j of or tho thu of carton lIr on county In III a territorial ture rb commencement of or Nevada n an independent with tho John army trouble tho with withdrawn drawn of or the residents nt at tho call callot nf ot when thole was Willi need for all Mormons to stand together lit lake people le who ho read tho story star of or the 0 ok lit tell of or a n day Ilay when whon tho tops tOIS of or orthe the Wl alch and the of or the the wall of ofa a 11 treat USA lea In III which Nevada Zenda shared tho weight of abow abo their and th only on the summit of ot the This wan tho thu bond of or union between b teen tile two Story of or Wc t U Is much jet ct to bo be written In thu wonderful of tho went und undu u Ihen hen tho tall IH II fully rully told tot Mich illch iw a lter Kit Ill Carson Car OIl shley S ll c will be from froll II Into Ioto of almost oblivion Tho tor of or the northwest a II hear IT C I II If S BEATIE ATIE 2 IO of of Its It Homo nt Carson City ing wh 1 the Portland was J upon und the tale of ot the tho southwest j partially told when tle Snit Salt I ika HIM III I Sm Hall Pedro tha cM pioneer trail to the coast The glory of the went Hie fighting for K 1 passage through the Humbolt route roul over or to California the tho i the early before tho days In of Sold lold laid a II yellow ellow ON nil 1111 that was done donn beyond tha mountains still obscured oh curr 1 In hi the of old or lost with tho passing of M the men mell who performed the work Here lle there In hI a 1 manuscript v I cm obscurely ob printed book of the tale Is IR partly patU told tol l and la I for Its It hearing before the tho I v orlU A C 1 In the first generatIon there was lit Ill tl distinction between tho tha Utah country camo Iamo Into Inlo through valley down don the Iha thel I Il l ar nr river or from the south at III Utah liKe and then trailed on all down the tho seeking beavers a n mythical river known as all tint that WILS supposed to I nm directly west from Salt Hall Ink I to tha coast conat It was Ins u II long limn lJ toro moa were erl the Great Greal Salt Halt lake lul o hUll had no outlet an 1 on C so famous nn explorer as nil Cap aln Fremont traveled across the tho east cast of or the Sierra lI Ihla mythical river 1 LI 1 henrt to swell with Joy as 1111 h en the mid thought he hI heI I id at List found n to tho tUt ut of ot tho great Krent ln In thou Ih rn was IaK ii n curious conclusion of the KI liter trapper Jim that tI iii eil in tn the tho explorations It was that i 11 beavers bl rs ocr ever lived on n lIm that lId not lend to the hen were found without heaver beaver i uns on them ho aura that the were inland and not nol goinG of ur O lIlII The trappers hul 1111 day In th thI I t I flom to 10 1ST In 1 William WilliamH H Ashley built Fort ort Ashley on Utah I LillI he operated n II company of 12 rappers from that point Afterward l Ogden O built buill a 1 fort furt In OK OKa 0 00 a and thus took from the Mormon Bot lIer the of he fir t habitations here An Anther ther trapper J H Smith In tn this ids year por Ibo the th real Euro European of th southwest trail to Los 1011 through Lila Last Vegas YI In louthern Nevada When that me to U A written tho credit seemed nt ot rt to III belong to the party part of or trail Mazers ns railroad literature describes th to found San Hun under and Illch Ihen came John Hunts of n trip tripI II I over Oer this trail with a Il party of ot 8 sent Rent by the Church to lilt milk cows John Hunt In n nU his to Newn mid U party had a n map of oC till the route Ien Ieni i c J t tI 1 I l h c t f 1 M r THE GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES OF UTAH IN THE EARLY FIFTIES In l lM to Oregon rl to XI cv in III n os Ihl of lit lt Western 1 Several of tile of Southern rn SUl of lit 11 of u Ius Jw II It Southern m u till the of Hf Mexico nt thul Time by t I I Skeen O len who ent nt over II the with Kit Carson BO O that ran the credit back to Carson Cal OIl Smith Journey Now No It a that neither Canon nor 01 i ien Ip ever went w t over er erthe the trail both their map of It from Mj venture him the fin white while mon man to enter Nevada und mor than that tho white man to 10 aO I tilt the NeAda mountains Curious ly Ir enough this of mountain walls was nB crot cro gell ed from tho west to the east cUMI and not In the th usual lI courtia our e of going westward fn In 1826 It was nB that Jed S Smith commenced the gront that him the t Nevada Neada resi dent He out from the shores of Gront Salt lake and traveled south waid i rut lake with a II of 13 1 men then Ihen turned t until ho encountered an nn old Spanish trail leading to 10 Angela When he com commenced to 10 return Ill ho traveled along the tho western mn of he the until be IH reached a point west of ot Suit Halt lake loke then to Cro llo climbed what he Mt U Joceph lu In the land of or the tho Indian on May Ia 27 21 for eight Ight days iI fought hili WO tilt the snows Into Nevada with but hUl Iwo companions ou nu of oC the IIi Twenty days of or marching found him 1 and at ot the corner of or Great Onal Salt Ink hut but with thu font of and a JIll tho Sl no ne for tor the time Tho Iho Old Spanish 11 Mines Ono who ho In early lally ex O have 1110 left lett but bul of or their work were the Span who at nl Santa I cent lIt excursions out nil all over ov r the western country Kather J IH III remembered horil n nA one who flush Id Into I Tali valley and Iah hike A few mining going by h thu Iho nf Spanish lIneA a burro trail heie hel and II lilt thoro n 1111 th trail to eem to b 1 nil that remain except the mid Lilli of a II few lolI Ait 1 to III theae men at III least In III Its Sierra Nevada moans lol t I Coveted with and Ne Nevada 11 vada oda nUl crested remained to lie II tho t hI name of the to honors with by hI the military mill r nun th the explorer and the Mormon settlers follow till II HIli I Of Ot tho days In III Nevada since the th 11 mil westward movement beg i thel Iq i that l I definite on record In III tho thu lint 1 place the Ihl mu t tb b l with being the father thI of ot and for tin tilt duty duly It performed In III yawing and till King 1110 It way ay the tho making ot es where men might break brcak th wall willi led lell to tu lh i i 1 e travel through The Instructions tons to pioneers were to hut for the tho It II follow It to the last then break for tor the mountains Simpson famous as us founder of ot the Simpson route to California In nn all Interview with the thc News Nell In little lo 10 locates cates his route principally by b Its lis refer reter reference ence to the O It And before leaving the work of or the th It should hoUI I bo Jo known that a Brent reut wrong roll was done e to the tho man who discovered the river when It II got Kol that thul name Mine Peter Bk en Ogden discovered the tho stream and In all the early days It went by the tho name of Ogden or Marys river for Cor ho had married an Indian girl whom he called Mary and after whom he named the tho river Afterwards when the trappers were becoming be extinct as n a 1 class clA S came along and railed tho the which mime seemed to stick with 1111 tha oncoming Immigration Salt nt ot II It tho close clo o of the Mexican war that diverted attention to 10 the west and nud started the movement of which the ther r of Nevada I Is a part The rhe signing of the treaty treat of lupe Hidalgo and Jill the discovery of gold light t afterward II ft I 11 brought to tn Salt which had Already be u by b Brig Young the lucrative trade with th Ih Immigrants HH III the train pull I out to tl the westward e the chance to 10 I b Iter ter took residents of ot this city along to 10 trading pO IH The fht of thise was built hullt In valley un under tier der th Ihl direction of ot II JI s Hi wl IV 0 left a n party of ot SO Snit Salt Lakers for tho Iho mine to tn go Into Inlo bU e H tI In III Inthe the Carson ulley At that time was 1111 part of the old state of De which 1 Included Utah Arizona mi of or Oregon and Jan 1111 Diego Ico county California 1 In addition to parts of several other California coun counties countie ties tie Buill lIr t llono Beatie settled ution lt II of i present town of ot tJ Ol the house he built there wan Wal fashioned fa after lter the tho houses el on the Missouri frontier with which hl h ho familiar before le Ie came cameto to In 1819 It hud no un roof and what wad IM known as n a II double li 10 that Is Ig a n long house hou with two to toc compartments c connected by h a I way Near It H was a built fur nr horses and cattle laWI and this establishment remained for n a summer as aK the only building In Ne Nevada vada With Mr In the venture worn frn DeMont Abner Ail und Curler artel men whose lIos names were ere not given In III Inthe the manuscript left by h Mr 11 Heutle lI of thin t Into Nevada lien tie lie did not remain long at Canon OIl val valley ley Ie At the end of ot the Mummer Hummer he 11 told first nr 1 home to 10 a 11 man mall named Moore and back to 10 SiH aH Lake Inke to milk make his homo Ho lie lived here a Ill II un till until til III Ills death fomo years ago and Is the Ih tather ather of ot lII Walter J of ot the tho Seventeenth ward mid of oC 11 H S of 7 C M II I 1 In ISM the tha Imd hc pros prospered until 20 trading po tt woe O M established along the Ih toute Carson valley 1111 most of If them owned I from California who ho halt had given 1011 up lie quest t of gold ll III niu Tho business was 1111 a 11 thrifty I one nile but hul retarded by IW a 1 disease to cm era killed many of the th and traders whoso shacks were ure Hindu of or willow and ero only tern tem temporary In I first tt tiding l ll t and station n built ml It Il wi Ia on the lh site Ite of the Ih house fr by h John noI a 01 of oC Knoch lIf I The rhe Itee It e c bays Imd come to Utah In III I I and had h n nhi I hi In business lne s nt Salt halt as n the firm of oC I and 1111 J Alier tor leaving Ne they the returned to mid a number of or their descendant are living In III Salt Lake Ial nov Mormon Heres H Is station was famous during the tho fifties ll lilt was mown on Iho old as Mormon Station 10 1 n slait sial It he hl hauled from t alt Lake 10 I JOHN JOnN REESE Sit Sinn VI 10 o Unlit Iho t Hou HIJII c In III Is v nf Hour butter egg g and other murk 11 tides and LIlli took with 1 Ith him a n company of nr 16 men nil all but live 11 op or sK of or 1 continued on Into Inlo California At I the eastern a tern end enl of ot the Cat son on valley ull he for a II time and founded Hag Hu Town the tho place this Ihl nunie lulUe from frum the de lie debris bris left by b the on moving west Colon Ho In fur far the Ih presence of Mormons In Nevada had huel been without tho of ot tho h and on tHi the Initia Initiative tive of ot member 1 hut but the th time cam when th little colony nt Ht which was R t 11 n named by Iv Orson Hyde the first of the nil I 1 In Inh h llor of ot the birthplace of Christopher Columbus WM VIL augmented by h u a party part of oC about TO o by hy their Church to found a colony colon In county count to The operations o of colony were called to a 0 unexpected halt by II tho h of or Johnsons army to und In III this the tho govern government ment and safety of residents of Carson CAreon county fell rell the tho departing colon colonIsts colonI I t Young called fl IQ In hI fin in all 1111 the In those tho un unfortunate fortunate days of nr j M S and those tn to respond rl la In common with till the theRan Ran and Ins mh w re the pettier of or Canon Carlon val valley al alIt ley It low How tha oral start In III was crushed by II the approach of or Johns n narmy army I rill to and how ho the was born hOln I gR In und Inti rose to fame on the fortunes of lit the lode loc locIA U IA r Mory that la III out of ot place l here The Hut of ot the arly nr attempts at gov government 10 In III Cat son valley 11 11 e there Is la still something to ho he told 1 I ac lie talc tole Is of or att to get et annexed to I California I then Ihen nf nC annexation to Utah and of If a n long dis disputatious quarrel With California over the iii boundary line which nt 01 the H i A i I II If IA IY Iy If IA IY IA IY IA IY Is II IA It If Is I f A A Y A y f I Y A Y Y f s A A t A A Y Y Y Y Y s A A A Y A Y Y Y Y Y A V 1 V I Iv 1 I XI J X v X v v 0 V 7 NEVADAS FInST HOUSE 0 c h was us the th tops lops of the FIJI Always 8 through this story of gov rov governmental trials trIll III till the of John Juhn Hee e Is hI prominent He seemed to have hal been an I flint III lit the place lilace In III when the population of II the valley alle wan wall l lo s thun a 1 1 men and leas than Ihan 20 nf or these were settlers John a meeting of the citi citizens zens to III le mleH tor This fiut in huhl on the Ihl evening of Nov 12 Con on grese to tn h it govern nl for tor the valley selected James II 11 Hays an and placed d the th power In n IL committee of men competed of or John Hee e K J I J Barnard A Woodward 00 It n H T A Hyl Hylton ton Ion N It II The fhe amount of land n II man could take 1111 limited to 10 toft ft 1 quarter section a recording er and treasurer were provided for tor After this Hit beginning nt John Heese Hee culled meet meelIn In j on Oil Nov XOI 19 I and pioneer legis legislating lating required land Innel to tn im improve provo prove their land to the extent of pt 5 in value nItH In 10 nix month ufler tiling limited the tho amount of timber lund land o I company could lOuM t ke a 1 to up land In the mime of or M aill h of ot HH ItH A third meeting Wll called allet Nov X 20 O ut at which H A justice of lit till peace n o clerk lIerl of lit the and a I ln were nere elected Illet 1 the rt t 13 li I sheriff mid T A H k The primeval ell I even ent so PO far nu to the right of ot from the th to a Jury of JC 12 men sum Dinned In III the usual form of nr a II who whine there was Willi Ui 10 be no nil ap apP P 01 In 1162 1 2 the territorial of reached over Into Carson on county rescued 1 th little body bod from gov governmental 10 Imitation The net affecting the Ih villey that creating for I nuI tho t on the run acro s Nevada NeIla Weber Il took In northern b whItt tille luab olid In III wi ill of oC the valley 1111 settle c Bradley r dl Anson II UI H 1 Judges over OI r th se to 10 erv tot n tl term of toll four foure e irn ri r ihl new lIew the first firstI I ma in 10 Ix 1 Died wall that of f John Il It is II took tonk th till about his hili ti to 10 a I lone non treo ill iI lM l the r mil tho w t South of the thO nu IK I 1111 ere up III on the thel th l kill in i they ther e of or orF V F I L ll u mini rd 8 III A y James JamesC C J und William Williami i i iu II I f i at if n II fortunate one nIle for the th vili us Jar number nf Immigrant tr train in 1 tI through till being noil l 1 I ash Ib and bU Ilg u in Th t N Mul i 1 garden b gun to tu forth then li lit Ke NI ie got a Il dollar a li fur ft hi while hll water watermelons melons and corn brought prices Of mun Heese moving spirit of ot tho th government hU much ml ht be hI on topics In frn Croll n his connection with Carson valley H HI Ivas n guide for Capt I pt Simpson on when the Ih route rout WI opened and |