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Show t r . t u PAGE TEN THE JOURNAL. LOGAN CITY, CACHE COUNTY, UTAH i ! ing through this While travel- trrrfcrc we I . r ! j ; GREATEST BARGAIN EVENT OF VtAR Rasmussen Bazaar-- Bankrupt Stock All Goods Far Below Original Cost. Priced Especially For Quick Sale MOST BE SOLD WITHOUT DELAY - i Saturday, April 5, 1924. Just before daylight while we where the ford was we couldnt were waiting for it to get light, cross. We went up on the bench OF were unable to country get W'ood to so we could start, word came where River. Heights is now, burn, and were compelled to that it was not soldiers that and could hear people talk and were coming, but a company of use buffalo chips. We were unable- - to .keep the scouts under John Taylor, which chopping wood over in Logan fresh buffalo, meat very long as had been North watching the and tried to make them hear us we had no salt to preserve it. road. My father f?Dze his foot and send some one to pilot us to We crossed the Platt river at during the campaign, on ac- town, but couldn't, and had to Laramie. Some thirtymiles this count of having defective boots. make camp and pass the night side of Laramie, we woke up In the spring of 1858 we went on the bench. Hrwas a cold one mopiing to find six inches south as far as Clover Creek, night, and when we got up our (Continued from page Beven of snow on the ground. We re- near Nephi. Father had to bor- bedding and clothing were froztions of food. There were eighu mained in eamp until the sun row enough food, from William en stiff, in our family and we.had two had- melted the snow a little, Richards, to make the trip. We I got work in Logan, and a carts. About June 24th 1856, and then resumed our journey, paid it back in 1859. I received little later my' brother Thomas the company started on its feeling very down hearted, as twro steers as pay for my work came up from Farmington, and memorable journey across the the road was very muddy, which for Captain Evans, and these together we went in Green canplains. made the carts hard to pull. with what work we were' able to yon and got out logs to build On our first day we traveled After crossing the upper place get from time to time, brought us a cabin. In December John three miles when v? were ove- on the Platt river, we to us in wheat, potatoes, etc. so Wright and myself sawed lum- The Sale in which Cash rtaken by a very bad storm. We the Sweet - Water - river,-an- d ber-fowe were - able to live. the log school house. r. made camp on the bank of In the spring of 1858, father We made the door frames, winnear Independence cammed ' Double Power Talks small creek, the wind was blow Rick, from there to Salt Lake and I made shingles in the can- dow frames, and sashes. We to had and we ing terribly, was 300 miles, and I was com- yon. We would saw the logs in had an old whip saw: I think, cling to our tents and poles to pelled to walk the entire dis- the sixteen inch lengths, then this was the first lumber sawed keep them from blowing away, tance barefooted as my boots split them as fine as possible, in. Logan. James Ellis and ; , but in spite of our efforts some were no goodri and take. a drawing knife and Benjamin .Williams, started! to of the tents vereTjlown down. In the black Hills we met trim and smooth them. When saw lumber about ' the same In a short time the rain came Parley P. Pratt, -- and company we returned from the canyon we time. John Blanchard used to in torrents, accompanied by going east, probably going on found my mother and brother tell me that John Wright and I oats, 10 bushels of potatoes had them they were willing to unsettled European situation. thundefand lightmngTLLe.wa missions.- Thomas sick with mountain-fe- w did about alLof-thwnrkjtm the about --the, size, omarbles..W e talk,.awLa treaty was made, pud Threatened collapse withjts after rose over the banks of the From Fort bridger to Salt er. Father was compelled to re- school house, and I think" like- were late getting water on the we gave them a beef, and some firmative "of social revolution creek, and flooded our camp, Lake we were allowed Jess than main at home to care for them, ly this was so, as the saw pit land and the wheat would not food in order to keep peace. The and and was a foot deep around a half a pound of flour per day. and I went out to Camp Floyd to was near the house and we were conscription of capital natunext day we gave them a feast' come up until it was irrigated. some of the tents. We had few We arrived in Salt Lake does not apeal to the inthere most of the time. City, get work, but oh w'orking tabernacle no For a time the rally had ,we square. long clothes except those we had on, October 2, 1856 after a perilous When I returned home jnoth-e- r John Wright and James Ellis beef of our own to kill, so we The collapse of Central vestor. the rest having left behind to journey which I shall never for- and Tom, had not recovered. Were expert men w ith the whip had no tallow to make candies, Bond as far 'peJms we Futurj be sent on later. So that get. Many died along the way but about a week later started saw, as this was their occupa-tio- and the only light we had in the own as our concernare markets had to lay over the next day to from starvation and exposure. to recover and were soon all Investors Bright ed. The recent rescue of in Wales before they came cabin was from the fire, in the the dry our clothes. This was very The trials and hardships of right. The disease had not fin- to America. An Irishman named fireplace. We had no matches, disfranc from is our disintegration first from for (Continued page seven) experience the journey were too much for ished its deadly work, my fath- Savage, and John Reed taught and had to trying keep fire always in We resumed our journey the them, and even afteriwe reached er and brother Daniel, and1 tinctly encouraging. It restores in school school house the my A log the over decline in money the confidence of the French in fireplace by covering gradual next day, with - 300 miles to Salt Lake many others died as a sisters Ann and Jane, were that first winter. (This is an the coals at night. At one time rates is under way. themselves and in American finmarch before reaching Florence. result of their privations. At stricken. This was indeed a Ed. Smith taught the our fie weitt out, and in the error, Commodity prices meantime ancial French busiThe journey wa3 very hard on Salt Lake the company scatter- very trying condition and a and these parties morning we had none. I went have been declining to the ad- ness wil find very first it difficult to carry us as the hand carts were hard ed in all directions. Father and sad one. - My father died No- the winter, out to see if there was any vantage of the investor.- Prof. next). to pull, and our rations were mother and I stayed with John Wright smoke rising .from any of the Irving Fishers index stood at an additional tax of, 20 per cent, and we buried family lyent to vember but this is, better than national very. scant. We had to make Farniington. I went to Ogden him inthe cemetery at Farm: that winter, they were very neighbors cabins with the 166, the first week of April insolvency The move has strthree meals on half of a pound with a man named Erastus inton.' After coming home kind to me. We used a blanket thought of borrowing some 1923. On March 21, 1924 we engthened the credit situation of flour until we got ta Flor- Bingham, and remained with from the funeral, I was taken fof a door to the cabin that coals, but there was no smoke find it at 149.2 decline of 10 per ence, then we were allowed a lim four months, when I went with and went to bed winter, but were quite comfor- anywhere, so I went back and cent. The Babson Index of In- all around. "So long as interest rates and pound a day. The first river to Farmington. In the spring and remained there for three table. took my old flint lock and put dustrial Commodities declined we crossed after leaving Flor- of 1837 I went to commodity prices work down between life Bingham and months, hovering By February Tom. and I had in some powder and with some from 184.3 to 168 or 9 per cent ' concluded ence was called Loup Fork, and worked for a man named together kr. Babn and death. our cabin nearly up, and we re- paper, succeeded in getting a during the same period. This son, the bond market . cannot after leaving it we had ten miles David Evans, for about After my recovery I started turned to Farmington for moth- fire started. We were very down trend in commodity prices but be helped by both factors. to go before we could get water. Seven months. It was during for Denver with the intentions er and the children. We found to careful a that after fire. promises to continue. keep Should commodity prices, turn The sun was burning hot and it this summer that Johnsons of We had several Indian scares working in the gold mines them alright, and in the latter Declining commodity prices up while money rates are still seemed to concentrate on the army, came to destroy the there, but on reaching Fort part of March we started on our during 1860, but in November a affect bond holders in two days. we will get some detrail between the tall grass Saints, and Captain Evans went Bridger I got work farming and return to Logan. The roads were lot of ' Indians camped near First, lower prices mean lower declining of inflation. Continuation gree growing on either side. This with our people to meet the ar- making adobes. I earned a lit- very bad., We had to come over where the factory is now living costs and the real income of the grass grew from five to eight my, and left me to take care of tle money -- and returned -- to the divide as the snow was too and we got sugar readjustments word that they were from the investment is greater. between present the fanner and the infeet .tall. The suffering from his place. My father also went Farmington, and with the deep the us to get goiflg to make a raid, so we got In the second place, interest is for canyon ip dustrial worker wijl allows the heatVand thirst was something out to defend Our wheat my brothers ha'd Earned through: We.w'ere two. weeks ready for them: Ten men were really rthe price on people.. ps a bond market to resume tsT money' some of .the and people terribje,. parne, North yiththe ebrh we were able to pay!pipst tf pu .hid behind', a haystack of father commodity-- and lower prices toward highe.Valufei, s' became so exhausted,, that they Ran Wert to debts. In the fall; .or latter part Ricks near' 'yhere Moses That- eventually spell lower interest jundejyChauntey; , s. gave lip and Stopped by the Way. defent the northern route. He of October James' Ellis and my- ed- Loan. Soon after our re- chers residence is now on Main rates, ' This naturally helps ahy' Flouf cab be sifted Some of ; the company got was one of the last to return self started for Cache several Valley, to turn we put a roof on our cabin street, another ten was hid on of fixed return. This times without it a new through, and they returned after the trouble was over, and get some land and make homes and were truly thankful to have the lot where the Thatcher bank security leaving topresent trend of commodities sifter with water to those left behind, as u consequence we did not for ourselves and families. , It a shelter over US4 We had taken is the by device over turning now, and another lot qf men ward lower levels must there- each time it (has which revived them so that earn much that summer. While took us three passed through to we land some and to there set work down the street west, as Indians fore of get up days strengthen the the stirring parts. they could go on. After leaving I was at Brigham I used to as we walked the entire dis- to fence it and get our crops in, came into town, the first men position necessity bond of the holder, The the Wood River, we came into stand guard at at one tance, and earned our bedding and the irrigation ditches dug. closed in behind them and shut intrinsic value of his securities the buffalo country, where we time word camenight, experts have estimat' that the' sol- and provisions. We came, in That spring we plowed eight off their retreat, and the last will increase and his dollar re- ed British that the known available coal saw thousands 'of buffalo in diers were comings from the through Wellsville canyon. It acres, and planted it, and har- men blocked their in front turn will buy more. fields insure an adequate supply j great herds. We were able to North, and for every one to be was dark when we reached Xo vested T7 bushels of wheat, four and we had them way surrounded. . The third factor, that has" for the normal demands kill some of them thus adding ready" to leave in the of the morning. gan river, and not - knowing bushels of barley, 15 bushels of When the Indians saw that we held bonds bafck has been the world for 4000 years. to our provisions. MEMORIES 1 I , i IT CANT I With LAST - COME QUICKLY I , a, -- . been-adiuste- . ' d n - f 8 t J the-feve- r Cap-lai- . ,Fa-;tfa.- er long-swin- , : - -- of Cache File This Away It Will Be Valuable In The" Future , --10- ! X I - ' 4 from the Summit Creek, and is alive today, states that in his opinion his people made a mistake by pot remaining at Summit or Smithfield where there were so many natural advantages. ' In the summer of 1839 Mr. Seth Langton was advised by President Brigham Young of the L.D. S. churchto settle in Cache Valley. Mr. Langton in company with Mr. Robert Thorn-fe- y arrived in the valley about August 1859 to look over various locations and locale a land claim. The settlements of Wellsville, Providence, Logan and Mendon were farming and a few had just located whereRichmond is, Mr. Langtonjbeing imbued with the real pioneer spirit and with a keen desire to' be one of the pioneers of a settlements with a good sized farm therefore decided to take a land claim on the Summit Creek. Mr. Langton was quick to see the natural advantages at Summit Creek anct none of the settlers at Logan had built any houses there but merely Rad their gardens and small crops. ; Mr. Langton and Mr. Thornley to work at once to build a cabin for Mr. Langton. They got their logs from the cottonwood groves and built the first log house in Summit west of the present townsite on the south bank of the creek near the . James Sheen farm, or a little' south west of the present condensed milk factory. - They returned immediately to Salt - Lake City to inform Their families and friends and prepare for , the move to Cache .Valley. At the time Mr. Thornley was unmarried but he soon had this important ceremony performed and the following arrived at Summit Creek and were the founders of the settlement: Seth Langton and family, Robert Thorn- levand wife, John Thornley and wife, John G. Smith and wife, Dudley Merrill and wife, Virgil Merrill and family,' Eziekel Hopkins and wife, Thomas Mather, Marshall Hunt and wife, fra Merrill and family, Robert Langton, and Mrs. Warasley, a, widow, with five sons and one daughter. .The settlers went to work immediately to build their log , houses, cut wild hay and make preparations for the winter. As there was not sufficient time before the winter set in, a num-ber Jived in dugouts until the next spring when more Jog houses were built. In the spring of 1860 quite a large number of new settlers arrived. The little Settlement centered pretty much around the home of Mr. Seth Langton who as already stat.-built the first log house in the colony. At this time the first boy baby, Seth A. Langton, and a little lata-- Eliza Lemon. the first girl babv, were born in the settlement. w-e- - d , 105 E --- Compiled by , , M. R. IIOVEY Secretary Chamber of Commerce" - X , - -- ' - t he they-continu- ed Free-)H)rn . -- Dudley Merrill, Willis. Xemons, Charles Williams, Daniel Col- -t ktt, Sill Collett, Thorns Winn, Thomas Richardson, Peter Richardson, George Thompson,- Mrs. Wamsley, and sons, James Dimmoek, George Summers, Edward Summers, William Chambers, John Tpomley, Robert Thornley, Seth Langton, Eziekel Hopkins, Joseph Hoi ton, Mr. Bowen, Austin Merrill, Jed Merrill, Samuel Merrill. ind John G. Smith. North side: Lilly Cousins. Potter Cove:; John Emi, Mr brim sop, GeorW TW- - . Ijnir t In March 1860 the town was laid out and surveyed by .frsse W. Fox, surveyor. The blocks contained four lots each and each lot was one acre of land. The townsite had the appearance of a prairie with shrubbery and cottonwood trees uir both sides of the creek. To the south west and north west wore the natural meadows and marshes where the settlers " cut the wild hay for their stock. As previously mentioned. Summit Creek was one of the . . chief camping places; of the Indians on their annual tours in -out of-tto make valley and naturally jand stops here although the settlement had been establish ed. The settlers therefore had to exercise the greatest vigilance and tact and even then they had considerable Indian troubles which will all be described later in a general account on Indian Troubles of the Valley. A terrible fight occurred with the Indians on July 23rd, " iR60 and this of course forced the settlers to build a fort at oricu jor protection and they occupied it for four years. After this engagement the men went in companies to the can- yons to getrthe logs to build their houses and in the fields 'do plant and harvest their crops. For two or three years it vas unsafe for a person to be alone outside the fort. " The fort was similar toThat of Richmond and other places in the valley. It extended easthndwest with the south line about where the present homes of Samuel Roskelly and Merrill are. The north line was where' the present office of the Smithfield Sentinel is; the east line just east of the , present tabernacle building and the west line in lineSwth the home of Joseph Forester. Summit Creek flowecT through fort and was of great convenience tq the settlers. Following are the names of those who occupied places in the fort and considered the early settlers of Smilhfield: South side: Nels Nielson, James Dawns, John Story, Henry Watts, Marshall, Hunt, Lars Toolson, Andrew Toolson, Virgil Merrill, . ier, William Smith, George Sant, Robert Nelson, Samuel Tay-lo- r, Robert Fishburn,-Mick- el Saunders, George Done, Widow White, Nathan Smith, Doctor Williams, P. T. Morehead, Harrison Thomas, E. R. Miles, William Ainscough, Robert Gibson, Lj dia Hunt, F. Gibson, Robert Meikle, William Douglas, Oscar Rice, Jonathan Bowen, David Hess,' John Boyce, Andrew Robert Bain, William Garnet, David Bennett, Goodwin, and Thomas Smith. East side: John Oley, Wahlen family, Martin Harris Jr., Dennison Harris, Benjamin Atkins, James Mack, Charles Gray, Father McCracken, Thomas Kellyhan West side: Andrew Hendrickson, Thomas Pilgram, David Weeks, ' Benjamin Lloyd, and Joseph Watts. ' The ecclesiastical ward was organized in 1860 by Apostles Benson and Orson Hyde, Mr. John G. Smith was chosen ns the first bishop but was soon succeeded By Samuel who acted in this position for a number of years and did much for the building up of the community. The name Smith-- u eld was adopted as the name for the settlement in honor of a Ir. John G. Smith, the first bishop. Before the meeting house Tas built all the public meetings were held in the home of Mr. An-ders- Kos-kel- ly ' Austm Merrill. The first combination meeting and school house w'as built near the present school building not far from Mr. John Thoro- building was commenced in 1861 and completed 7ofate m 1862 and consisted of logs, Mr. James Cantwell Jr. was as the first school teacher .but he was soon followed b.v a Doctor Patten. Later Mr. Charles Wright became the eacher-a- nd held the position for a number of years to the ntire satisfaction' of the people: fr- - Robert Fishburn took a very active part to help jro-md- e wholesome entertainment for the settlers. As early as June 1860 he organized the first choir with the following as some of his principal members: Samuel Taylor, Charles Fox, ArfredCharpbers, William Ainscough, George Sant, George Done, Nathan Smith, Aquilla Noble, Priscilla Fishburn, Lavinia Noble, HenrtttNoble and! Alics Done, Mr Fishburn &lsoA organized a dramatkycompany and presented some good plays 'asiong which were RentjDay, Ben Bolt, and Rough Dia- mond. Some of the performers were Robert Fishburn, Samuel Taj lor, Janies Mack, Joseph Hill, Alfred Chambers, Thomas illiarn Hill, James Cantwell, Aquilla S'oifch, Noble, James (To )e (ymtbjuer hird.tvi , v A w |