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Show Page Ten The Springville Herald July 17, 1975 o Si K' f. hitmin $ WS BY 4$ ' ;J,'-'.",, ' ' fc'. ' T"" " :T- " 7Tw 'gay Tom Alexander, left, and Ted Warner convert Spanish leagues to miles (1 league equals 2.63 miles) as they measure distances on modern maps to trace the Dominquez-Escalante Expedition Trail. The two BYU historians spent more than 20 days on the road pinpointing trail location and campsites as part of a four-state four-state bicentennial study of the expedition. BYU professors retracing trail used by early Spanish explorers If Dominguez and Escalante had returned to Utah to establish settlements after their famous exploration expedition in 1776, the state probably wouldn't have a Provo or Spanish Fork or Kanarraville today. Instead, these respective localities might be called San Antonio de Padua, Dulcisimo Nobre de Jesus, and Nusetra Senora del Pilar, according to two BYU historians who recently retraced a portion of the Dominguez-Escalante trail from Provo south to the Utah- , Arizona border. In fact, the whole area from Duchesne to Provo and down to Hurricane near , St. George probably would have been identified by a series of Spanish names that the explorers used for their camps, explained Dr. Ted J. Warner, chairman of the BYU History Department, and Dr. Thomas G. Alexander, associate director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. The two professors form one of six teams which are retracing the entire 2,000 miles trail through New Mexico, Colorado, , Utah and Arizona under direction of the Dominguez-Escalante Dominguez-Escalante State-Federal Bicentennial Committee. Melvin T. Smith, director of the Utah State Historical Society, is chairman. Results of the. project will be complied by Dr. David Miller at the University of Utah who is chairman of the trail exploration portion of the bicentennial project. A report, will be published during the nation's bicentennial celebration. "Our assignment was to find as closely as possible, the actual trail and campsites of the expedition," ex-pedition," Dr. Warner said. The two BYU professors have retraced on foot and in a four-wheel four-wheel drive vehicle some 300 miles of the trail. As references they have used several different translations of the original Spanish journal kept by Fray Silverstre.Velez de Escalante on the five-month, 2,000 mile expedition. ex-pedition. The historians also had access to two handwritten copies of the journal produced in 1792 and 1797 and to an 1854 Spanish publication of the journal. Using a new translation by A SMILE MAKER . . . Most any man will enjoy the gift of a hobbysport of dying his ' own model plane whether lie builds it himself or receives one ready to fly. If the sea attracts at-tracts him, rather than the sky, there are equally fascinating scale model kits or sailing or motorized yachts; some easy enough to assemble by the man who thinks he's all thumbs. Fray Angelico Chavez of SanU Fe, N.M., the two professors were-yable to pinpoint more accurately than previously possible the location of some 20 campsites between Provo and the Utah-Arizona border. "What we now hope to find is an . unnamed hill or other prominent Utah landmark which could be named after Dominguez," Dr. Warner said. He noted that Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and not Escalante was the real leader of the 10-mile expedition, but because Escalante wrote the expedition journal, he has received most of the credit fo the trek. Several Utah landmarks including a mountain range, forest, desert, river and town have been named after him but nothing has been named after Dominguez. The explorers originally set out from Santa Fe in July 1776 to find a new route to Monterey, California, but never got any father west than Utah. However, they were highly impressed with some of Utah's rivers and valleys and wanted to estalibsh settlements in these areas. But when they returned to Santa Fe in January 1777, manpower and funds were short and their hopes never materialized Dr. Warner explained. ex-plained. So Utah remained unsettled until the Mormon pioneers arrived some 70 years later and applied their own names to the state's communities, com-munities, mountains and rivers If the Spanish explorers hac returned, their names would probably be in use today and it would be hard to tell Utah from Calif., or New Mexico. Payson would have been San Andrew, Scipio would have been Ojo de Cisneros, and Levan would have have been San Bernardino. Other campsite names which might have endured are San Pablo, Santa Ysabel, Las Vegas, del Puerto, Senor San Jose, San Donulo and San Juan Capistrano. An who knows what Utah might have been? Maybe Tierra de Los Utas or Timpanogos or Nueve Espana. Rhode Island has the longest official name of any state in the Union State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. NATURE MADE'S EXTRA STRENGTH KELP, LECITHIN, B6 TABLETS with Cider and Vinegar 100 TABLETS . s $398 fete PHILLIPS MILK OF MAGNESIA Regular or mint flavored antacid-laxative. 12 oz. 99c Reg. OfflHO . i ' Systemic Rose&Ri CarBiiM .3 tea ORTHO SYSTEMIC ROSE & FLOWER CARE Easy to apply. Controls insects in-sects and fertilizes. S'j lbs. 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