| Show Escalante DUP to Dedicate Monument at Historic Ferry 4 Next Tuesday October the Escalante camp of oC Daughters of Utah Pioneers will dedicate a monument to commemorate the Jensen Mabee ferry according to o an announcement by Captain Florence Kelly Mrs Kelly Is a sister o of Mrs Maud Atwood of ot Duchesne who will vill be present at atthe atthe atthe the dedication The Thc monument will be unique In n several ways declared Mrs Kelly It will ill be nine feet long four our feet wide and approximately seven feet high The upper part o of this structure will wUl be studded with with beautiful stones peculiar to the section which will be furnished furnish furnish- ed by members o of the camp Some Someo o of these atones will be gastro- gastro or gizzard stones of the huge dinosaurs which roamed millions of years ago in this particular particular particular par par- section Replica of or Boat Gracing the top will be a replica replica replica rep rep- lica of the large ferry operated by Lars Jensen and carried away by the Ice jam In the Green river river river riv riv- er March 19 1909 This replica constructed by Jens Jensen hisson hisson his hisson son will be o of cement one eighth the size of or the boat five live feet teel long 16 inches wide and acid 10 inches high Mrs Kelly says Jensen ferry became known as the Mabee the in ferry ferIJ a a sounded as arm because Mr Jensen when asked by a customer if It he could be ferried across the river would Invariably reply mabee for maybe There were three other ferries in the Jensen territory during the time of this tills craft which operated from 1881 until all were carried away in 1909 Location of Monument Ira Burton operated one about two miles above the town of J Jensen Jensen Jen Jen- ensen en- en sen at what is known as the Burton Burton Burton Bur Bur- ton ford Later this s ferry was moved to just below the Indian Indianford Indianford Indianford ford near the Dinosaur National monument Burton latex later operated where the Jensen bridge on U. U S S. S 40 Is now located Other parties then bought and operated the ferry many years The location of oC the monument Continued on Page 8 Escalante D. D U. U P. P To Dedicate Monument l At Historic Fort Continued from page 1 is near the Jensen bridge across Green river on U. U S. S highway 40 two and one-half one miles down the stream from the Mabee ferry site On the last day of service October October October Oct Oct- ober 5 1908 Lars J Jensen and his hisson hisson hisson son Jens made 86 trips to ferry across a band of runaway Indians from the Uintah reservation near Whiterocks V during the last Indian trouble In this section They were led by Red Cloud and were on n their way to the Dakotas where they declared they would make their home They had to ferry the river because because because be be- cause high water had made the theold theold theold old Indian ford where Escalante had crossed in 1776 unsafe for women and children and their various primitive means of trans trans- Naming of or Jensen The town of Jensen was named in honor of Lars Jensen on August August August Aug Aug- 1 1894 the same year he built the last large boat which was destroyed de de- C 1 At the Mabee ferry was lo located located located lo- lo the first store building the first hotel or eating house as asit asit asit it was called and a saloon The bronze plaque to be placed on the monument was earned by bythe bythe bythe the camp for being the first in Uintah county in 1936 to register its funds for historical purposes with the Utah D D. D U U. P P. P state headquarters This is the third historical monument monument monument mon mon- to be erected in the Basin the first being near Duchesne in of Father Escalante Escalante Escalante Esca Esca- lante and the second the Robidoux Robidoux Robidoux Robi- Robi doux monument nt between Ft Duchesne Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- Du- Du chesne and Roosevelt All three are located on highway 40 |
