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Show J?ZVG2 Gozzlcf Ze Ol' JkZcxlWAS EARLY FUR GIANT SCOT TRADER IN BEAR RIVER AREA Snapshots from the book, Heroes of the Rockies," by Russel! and Driggs. JVZ&Ljny- - uliar white colored flesh. He named this stream Malad river. , Mackenzie also named the the Portneuf, and the Payette rivers. Working for the Norwest of Montreal, it was Mackenzies Wei-ser- - av7wiTwf Soztzgs, x purpose to penetrate and explore the land of the Northern Mystery. The final journey that Jed Donald Mackenzie into the grassy wintering grounds o f Bear River was undertaken as a result of stories carried to Mon- f 'rafv. fe Centennial K'Wfesfis!fi- - Peach Days Edition Elder Box NEWS-JOURNA- L September 3, 1947 - "Hid-$-de- n The Rivers Flow Backward , Too , To The History Of An Area By A, M. Reeder "v (Old Man River, he don't say nothing, he just keeps rolling mountain-g- V ' -- X z X v. 'T7 r - v - . v , '&' a vyX k.v - XX.fXrf- ; Vi'K1'-'- ' - V g. g p t xy: , ROBBINS osuctois CAKES CUP CAKES ROLLS BREAD - - POTATO BREAD PIES Visit Us At Our COFFEE SHOP GOOD DELICIOUS COFFEE ROLLS FRESH DONUTS PIE PIE ALAMODE ICE CREAM CHOCOLATE DOUGHNUTS y J ' ? , 1 jr r,Z CAKE ROLLS r1' 1 I HARD ROLLS A .Vi , SWEET ROLLS f , V 44 fhf . 1 - " 1 : COOKIES X . for BIRTHDAYS V ' T , or d fur-tradin- a fertile farm lands, irrigating thousands of acres, creating hydoreleetric power, and finally feeding the 64,000 acres of marshes of the Bear River Migratory Bird refuge, be-fOld Man River of emptying into Great Salt Lake. the Great Salt Lake basin is shown above, near the bird rebackfuge. The Promontory mountains loom in the ground, jutting out into Great Salt .ake. The history of the Great Salt Lake basin us closely interwoven with the tortuous cour.se of Bear River, named more than 125 years ago by a Scotchman, friend of the Indians, successful fur trader, Donald Macrendezkenzie. He called together a gigantic vous of many tribes in the vicinity of Black Bears lake in 181B, at which 10,000 Indians assembled. Today Bear Rivers waters wind their way through the valley, past 312-poun- ii-t- ' f jSMg-- v'i , , vib s' d ticle. He and his men became ill from eating beaver of a pec 'v X'-- along.; "The rivers of every clime are ahvays linked with its songs and its stories. What a wealth of legend and music and romance for example, comes at the mere mention ot the Nile, the Jordan, the Tiber, the Danube, the Rhine, or now the Marne. How many tender songs and thrilling stories arise too, when he hear Ohio, Swanee, Potomac, Hudson, Rio Grande, Mississippi, or Tennessee. And all because along these and other wondrous streams of our country and ot other lands has been enacted so much of the diamatic history of the world. This story is centered in an unusual part of our America whose commanding water is a great lake sparkles like a diamond in the midst of the mountains of the farther west. This is so salty that one cannot sink in its waters. The first trapper who paddled around it in a canoe nearly died of thirst. Its discoverer tasted its briny waters and thought it an arm of the ocean. The old rule of exploration unFollow the water ways failing elsewhere, failed in the great basin which lies between the Rockies and the Sierras. Baffled in their attempts to discoter the secrets of this uarded realm, the Spaniards called it the Northern Vwery Land. The great basin was indeed practically an unknown region on the maps until nea-l- y a third of the nineteenth century had passed away The streams ran in so many directions, none could decide w here they went. Many daring Americans and men also of other nations played their various parts in discovering the secrets of the Northern mjstery. Not ail the tales of heroism can ever be told, because the actors were men of deeds, not of words. Yet, within the fragments of historical material they have left in the form of diaries, letters and memoirs, may be found many true and thrilling stones which when linked together, make a chain of events that is most satisfying to every lover of real adventure and to every true American heart. Bear River seems to be first spoken of as Black Bears lake" and river. The honor of discovering the lake and its outlet river and naming them was left for the famous Scotch giant weighing 312 pounds, Donald Mackenzie. He came this way from Walla Walla. In all the wild multitude who made the far west known to us, he was perhaps one of the most striking and romantic figures. The Irdians reverenced him for his great strength and courage. One shot at him when his back was H e turned. merely turned around, lifted the redskin off his feet, and slapped the fellows face. This was worse than k.llmg him for it made the Indians laugh till they jeered him out of the camp. Being a highland clansman himself, he knew the Inrians through and through He trusted their great chiefs so implicitly that he even left many bales of goods in the keeping of one friendly chief. Six months later the goods were returned, without the loss of a single ar- ' WEDDINGS PARTIES MADE TO YOUR ORDER |