| Show First San Freight Was Organ From Australia ruG Im t lit hi tide fide M freight con non conI t I signed U to Skit talt Lake City CIl from 11 the tb Antipodes JM via 8 SI Anti ti Pedro harbor L Lot s Angela San Sn Per Her LM W Lt Vegas 1 and nd the route rou now covered by bJ the San Ian Pedro Pro rM Los Angeles Angelea A R Salt Lake Uke road was wae landed In a lighter at San ton Pedro early In 1 1151 from the clipper schooner Jenny l Ford rd that tailed sailed lied from Sydney N NW A AW S W ninety days daya da prior to te arriving on the Californian coast This freight consisted of ot n a pipe pip or ore organ Jan gan the tint nt built In Australia It 11 was wan constructed throughout by b the veteran vetran organ orran builder Joseph A Ii Ridges Rid 0 the till theman tillman theman man who built the th original Tabernacle organ orn Mr Air Rid accompanied the organ from Sydney and paid tilt the gum eum of ot eighty pounds charges on his effects ll before betor Captain 8 S F Ir Sargent of ot the lh tailing sailing ship took them on board President Brigham Young heard of ot thus this I organ or an with the result that It won was aM Drought brought to Salt Lake City tat sat up In the theold theold theold old adobe tabernacle la i and antt for tOr years at ate f was waa played upon by Proto Prof Or Orion OrIOn Orson ion son Pratt and Dr Kurt 0 G Mower Masser Utter Later this Instrument was wai wa dismantled and ana some of ot the Ut pipes were ere Incorporated ed d In the organ which was waa II built for tor the Hall lIall The Th story of the overland trip from coin fromn Sun San n Pedro to Salt Bait Lake Ik which took three throe months aa as told by Mr Wi Ridges U Is Ua Isa a most moot Interesting one on Mr Wr was waa w found foU d at lila hll home hom homem m 1111 west lIt Third North V by a Christmas News representative and to give If hi Impressions of ot 8 San a Pedro and Los Loi Lo Annie Angelee oe aa th these ie places ap ape appeared P paired to him 4 years yean ago an anAT AT SAN SAM PEDRO Since Sines the day ay I lien lift left southern Call Cali California forma fornia I have baa been buck back to 10 aee see seethe the th great tat changes change chan that tuat hove have trans he h said laid hn I WM wu there then U II there then th were no oil no big cities and no miles of oC orange oran groves gro It WM Wl to all aU Intent and purposed a 1 virgin land with liere litre and there then greasers and gold prospectors lora At San Pedr Pedro there lher were 11 no wharves and all freight had to be b transferred In lighten to and from tram vessels veI lying at anchor There were wert but bul two adobe buildings at San Pedro and they were wre used ul ai as a warehouses warehouse The Th exports seemed to 10 be bt mainly grapes P and wine wild I have seen leen those thons big bl prairie schooners loaded eight feet teet high and drawn by b 20 mules come corn down to 10 the waters trl edge dg and In a number of cases cau tip U over and send lend the th laze lIo n of grape Ifa smash lag Ing all over 01 the place It was wai a 1 wild and rough spot pot PRIMITIVE P LOS ANaBLE Ise Angeles Angelee wu wai hardly better There were wife simply a few tw adobe and ud an apology poloy for tOl A hotel there Thera The Theair Theair rh air was wai balmy balm and the lh used to 10 tolie tolie lie around In the shade elude and loaf loat moet of oC the time Urn Once In awhile one of at their clumsy c car carte with wheels mad made from solid Mild sections of nf tr trunk wends IIIi H go and greening down n the Ute I will take that back there thero were no streets street trel in Loa LM Angeles Angel Dim Dimply ply pil pl Wand taM and tracks It U was wai i IL tough touch town and no one teed UI to take lake any an noU Of a killing for lor they were frequent AN EARTHQUAKE JAN JAIL 1 I never nr shall forget tort the Ibe second cond night SlIght my m wits wit and sad I were wart there tiers You Vou know all 11 the houses housed consisted of ot square adobe structures with flat roofs roof that hid had nagged flagged somewhat under the weight lIght of 01 the rains rI When thu I was wae titers there there happened to 10 be plenty of ot water on the he fhe root roof ai as I I found suL Out to 10 my ray Well Will that night there wan WI an UI earthquake earth earthquake rth quake and It U was wai a good one ail too I rushed ruah 4 out of doon doors Just Juet In time to get lit About Poul a II ton of water In my face and get knocked over oer The house hour rocked no so that the water simply carne came cain off oft the roofs rood M u though It were 10 being poured remit from hugs huge dista A tow low days Inter we e got another scan Mare and this time all the Jho door frames me were jarred askew eo so r d n nr r tf t rr r N t ter er ery s J y Y 9 1 a 1 I ci cik k If 4 I Ift ft I I 1 fir Ir c JOSEPH H N RIDGES The Th Man Who Hauled the Pint Freight From Prom Sn An Pedro to Salt Sell Like lAke In Pioneer Day Days that Ut t one could not open the doors doom doo or dote close the tb open ones on TRIP TO SALT After awhile we w started tar for Salt kit lake Uke having flat Joined the lite company of Saints at It San Ban Bernardino where there thell was wa a Mormon settlement I 1 purchased a wagon on and four tour mules mule for forthe forthe forthe the purpose and nd had a pretty good out outfit lit Itt In the company compan wore were Apostles Amata Lyman and C moh My Myron Myron Myton ron ton Tanner William Matthews and President Francis l M I Lyman Iman Joseph Illch and Hunt The three last named were all young eung boys bolS then and they trade mad things mighty Interesting for tor me meI I was WM not used to 10 mules mul while they were and also allo were wire handy with a ropo rope The Th consequence con was waa that they would go jo out and amt rope their team loom and matter mat matter ter ier my Iny aliI mil and ua have h vo all kinds of ot I tau fun while I would chase abate my In mules mule and andle I Ibe be le about nn an hour behind the company most malt of the time There nitre were at least twelve wagons In the party parly HARDSHIPS It wai wu AI pretty good traveling until wo WG reached tho strip of or desert west of Lae Vegas and then we had a terrible experience Of course we carried water alor with lIh us U In ht barrels barrel lashed to the lh sides doa df ot the but there was only enough to 10 give the tbt animals a R dipper full tull I once In awhile It took us three days 1118 and find three nights to cross that stretch i I Eventually we WI arrived at nt a n little spring I that ed a eo stream about aboul as wide wid as your finger and then we had to fight tight the mules m In order to get It a II drink Far Tor l or three days and M as many nights wo we walked beside buWe the wagons II pIng tho the teams while the lh duet festooned tt every Dery sad and sand Bind came oam oft the tho Cellos felloes like I a continual stream of at water op OI LOST WAT on onIt It was while crossing this stretch that I 1 lost a 1 gold roll watch and aDd chain chitIn I had given It to my wife wit to 10 i Ake ko k oats oare air of ot while we walked and atad she he had placed Paced It U In her hr dress dreas In some som manner It hid had fallen N le to My ay 1 I 1 paver never expect expected ed to see lite It again What was waa wa my sur lur surprise surprise prise to 10 regain It In hr Salt Lake Lak City some tine months later laler from a 11 pony pon i rider who had hid bought If lt I from front fromin in nn Indian In tor ter a blanket ct 1 when I did part company with the watch for Tor good I tre l d it to President Young for tor a mulch cow You do not often hear nowadays of ot a m n a dropping drop a gold watch In tn the lh sand on and oni setting getting It hack back WO toO miles mil away from the fit t e place pine pl e where It was 8 lost INDIANS AND JACK JCK RABBIT At hat we readied reached tae Lai Vegas wh ti n te tho the road U is going to establish a dl 01 1 point and where whre they the tell me there thero n Is destined to 10 be an Important town d rl of J sanitarium In those days day there v I s a nothing there but Indiana and a f f a aJack v 1 jack rabbits rabbit The Th shacks and fort tori t th thad t thad had baa been built by b the Mormons u ura I t but b t they were not occupied ia taro by some Rome sorry looking locking Indians Indiana I pr Wt t tty t ty nearly got frat the company Into trim trou tr u i t here i there owing to my nou with will the characteristics of the aol no lied Hid Man Just as AI soon loon as II we pulled In is J a aLas Las Liu Vegas th the Indians Indian began to scram scramble ble round the wagons nasons rOn One On old d yua Vas was particularly obnoxious and d dim diming ing Ihl Into the wagon commenced td to pun pull l lat her i w aa around I things things around I gave gave her a push lid at Al the the same sarno time lime raised ral d my hand in Int avas a threatening t r manner She prompter bolted out of the lh wagon gon and told th tb t Then i WIt rest t of ot tho the Utes Utts assembled vas that they the be began n to act acl lIgh Undoubted were on i t th ugly Undoubtedly they of ot starvation hot we pad verge with ned fied thorn with a p gUt t of a leer they adjourned to hold hold a barbecue ad general high revel ARRIVAL IN UTAH U to o relate the te Mr 11 IUd then went on m hi his en entry y yinto Lake a 11 Salt Sal into Inlo Utah and arrived at It i few tew days before the th newl of f fing h ing Dig of at army was wu In the city oilY Upon hi arrival here h re S Mr ir r aM aMt Aft Mt the organ orn proceeded to unpack The p P PIns pack packIng It t up In the lh old Tabernacle pipe pipes hI hIr hIrIng he which Ing Ins OUts cease In h 11 own personal c effects wire were w rl contained conti t thad ha had Made madl himself In n This Au wood tra l wat frOm de d a a native maho mahogany ny and In int eon conw Utah elded novelty In mum III unused of ot It WM wit t ienco every even toot foot and hI hll tale ewe case cr of at t th Ih the organ oran lh makIng being a lent leUt the grade rad furniture not told Colder unique folding bed the tint be In Utah g Mr Ridges md I lla SU h r Brigham td eel by areas an ana and build buill tb Ira bl big T Tabernacle track III e Bolton It lo aye pur waa a by Ih ant lIt u upU ehiN chaM of th n 7 1 p WM a Although piles pU I IOAn the veteran contractor so tilt s oer a can ean remember re hi his 1141 trip than tag tak taken Lake Lak Route more en Jr oost Kid III ii III an E amt oho d his m 1 Y Yupon upon pop 8 t PP t 10 Sod n later lar r In alt Ufa e cub to li 11 be bas hatI resided ever s |
