Show DUP members study freighting MAESER SPECIAL-Daughter of Utah Pioneers Camp Buena Vista met March 16 at the home of Theron Captain Rhoda Stevens Mildred Mansfield read Jolly minutes and roll call by Marcella Business of the meeting was a discussion of the April 19 meeting which will be held at the home of Mildred Mansfield and the County DUP Installation of officers April History was given by Margaret Elison of her Thomas Lesson on and given by Leta The story of freighting in the old west began with the mountain men in 1820 using horses or mules to pack their equipment and gilts to trade the During the late and the early the trappers and traders traded their wares to the This was the annual summer The Mormons left the Midwest in wagon trains in 1847 and With the organization of the Perpetual Emigrating twenty-five individuals reached Utah in In other conveyances were such as along with The linking of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans May 1869 by the Union Pacific Railroad closed this freighting The freighting was an important part of settling Idaho and Freighting in this area was from Salt Lake City to Park over the mountain to Ashley Valley or from Heber through Strawberry Either way took twenty-one Utah's Dixie freighted to and from Modena railroad There is a long list of men who freighted to and from Roosevelt and Duchesne to the railroad in Price and to the narrow gauge railroad at Luncheon was served to 16 members and Virginia |