Deseret Evening News | 1906-05-12 | Page 29 | First White Man's Habitation at Las Vegas

0 i t c i t ty y r f C S J rl f gM l lI r I Jk 49 t r er I r try w I Photo by H O n r r HOW r r T rS oo X r i FIRST WRITE WHITE MANS HABITATION AT LAS VEGAS Jut Just 1 tutu the Trees Tree Tide House Still IIII Stands on tint the Snit ball Lake bate u ii 1 Monument lu m II th the pencil of ot tho the Several Seral years litter later In 1531 Z tho the main San Ban Bernardino colony went tnt west rut un on under onder der Elder and Lyman of the council of at and a regular gular r route Jute tuto Utah wits nan opened In Tit about 1635 U the mission lon to b 11 the Indians was xoa 13 estal established shed I hed Anil a n regular colony of over twenty wills lIR leas WUK x to Vegas Vegan spring This colony built the mU mission lon house hou e which also wen used nH nl a re relay ro roIllY rebey lay IllY station on Oil tha route roule and n a fort Cort fortIn CortIn fortIn In nn nil occasional o raid rolel of ot starvIng In In Indians titter litter supplies Vh Wh n the Mormons left loti In KM It continued In use U f by It the pony express Mr riders elders and was a haven of at rest for tor many yenta years to risers over oer time tile old mild Southwest trull trail Today Tolu tho the mission house bouse still stands echoing to lo old alit Inhale Inhabitants Stunts Hunt n a memory of ot other days and lines of progress that were weft rut ort off In 1655 In the tho rush ru h o of at western there ar are r many mUll remote corners al nl almost most mo t overlooked by 11 the historian hl hi and the of ot early Mormon lI ex u explorers explorers In the country west of ot Utah Clah are aru II hardly yet ot on out record At lt t Its laK an taI It Il was evils In those tho days In before a it I elt city was W 1 ever exer dreamed of there then still Im II a an 1111 oil adobe house there thor by b tin the tl Mormon win Im rt ri il tl 1 A with their th lr message to the Indians In to Inthe Inthe the early coyly tori fifties awl and abandoned rv n very verj er tow few years jenis later inter when h n tho the Johnston Johnstons army recalled d to Utah the whole force of ot tin Iho Mormon people and council the tho of ot San Bernardino in C II 0 rn la and ami many oth colonies In ht Nevada and tutu California Las Vegas paid tho the penalty of ot the Johnston army inure moxe In Its Ita history hl tory would have haxe been bu la IB I d tl tall tull und timid It would still bo be bl a t city elt with witha u IL history dating tick bark to toU U st when h n the il t Party of ot Mormon V stopped tl theta to rest th their lr unit anti lull h aru their thirst t en on enro route roan ro to t tin II in