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Show UlUUllAiU LA i 1 , UAAil, 1 iVRnmu, u'u v, Si Progressive Methods Boost Box Elder Farm Production Mf. there Just by chance when the soldiers came. " He was George ' W. Hill, the 4, Mormon ambassador to mounV tain Indians. For. twenty, years he had moved among Shoshones, Bannocks, Nez Perce, Piute, Navajo speaking their languages, telling them the Book of Mormon story, convincing them these white men meant peace and plenty. He was Enga Pom-bi- , which is Shoshone for Red Head. A few In Washakie still X- -' speak of him by that name, though hes been dead 60 years. Hill must have been bitterly sorry when he wrote his account for the Salt Lake paper that fall, for he looked across one hundred acres of wheat, twenty-fiv- e of corn, five and a half to six acres of potatoes, three to four acres of melons, peas, beets and other vegetables, and reported that the Indians were in the fields with two reapers and had commenced harvesting just when the first news of trouble reached us. This band of 300 all baptized by Hill ten days before the soldiers came was the climatic accomplishment of his mission. He had and heralding the day when arduous g ready in operation, hand labor is not only made here his the of Box for Elders' production sugar beet crop, are machines such as lot of converts to. his biggest ntcessary religion The tractor-draw- n machine at right digs and tops sugar beets, but he had st pictured above. guided this group into something like the produc ng them in windrows, and the machine at left goes along the windrow .picks up the Then they are hauled to the beet dump, where they tive Mormon town pattern of its and loads them into a truck. those years. . loaded on railroad cats, or to the Garland sugar aftcory itself, for processing into Hill had settled his Indians Box both and Elder with a leading cash crop and a leading Beets ;ar. sugar provide raised Box in Elder the of Ail are , beets into county processed dry. sugar and bag-iready for shipment and retail sale, in the Garland factory of the Utah-Idah- o Sugar Hili-wasn- t I :v, rrrU' two-decad- e back-bendin- near (Bear River City that spring because, the Scandinavian Mormons here .were wflljng Jo share their 'newly-duirrlgatiori sys tern with their.'Lamanlte breth-ren, as the Book of Mormon call-- j ed Indians. He had adapted the to Shoshone tribal government the purpose of a cooperative farm, and that summer he had proudly watched his children, as he called them in his diary, join the whites in commemorating Brigham Youngs arrival In Utah. g J Now he could only record that Chief Sagwitch one of the great Chief Washakies lieutenants had stepped forward and demanded eloquently to know what he had stolen, whom he had killed, what meanness he had committed, that the soldiers should come to drive him away from his crops. Sagwitch, from whose mind Hill had tried to erase bloody memories of the frightful Battle. Creek massacre near Preston in 1865. Next day, with Hills reluctant agreement, the Indians had gone, he reported, and a man styling himself States Marshal,' with three or four others from Corinne, rode into the Indian camp and stole everything to which they took fancy. One of the first attempts to help Western Indians live Scattered from Preceding Page the people of Corinne, sued white people, as h they were unborn. . . . :the army should have been led into giving countenance other scheme is to be regretted, not believe there Is Seer at Camp Douglas with iaible full of brains who he-- s that there was the least dation for the organized we io: hi scare The Threat Of jy 1 le (Continued .on Following Page) npany. Jians n do at Corinne. ai the Indians who were on the farm now were resident Indians, had no reservation to go to, as they never belonged to any. Nevertheless, the orders had to be obeyed. This was about three oclock in the afternoon, says 11 Heralds editorial was right about the Indians, but It was wrong about the officers who led the rescue Corinne operation, allowing they had the requisite thimble full of brains apiece. Their action is best ac- Mr. Hill. Immediately afterin this counted wards I called the Indians toDeseret News story of Sept. 1, gether, told them that dt would 1875: all come out right and advised The major (Brant) deliv- them to return to their former ered his message which was to haunts. By sunset not an Inthe effect that all the Indians dian could be found in the camp must leave the farm and go to all had scattered out to wantheir reservations before noon der from place to place as in the next day, or he would be former years, leaving their crops compelled to drive them there- for which they had toiled so from by force. I fold the ma- industriously, and on which jor, writes Hill, that all the In- they depended for their winter dians who belonged to reserva- food, neither cut nor garnered. tions had already gone, and that The eyewitness who wrote this M vi H H TEXACO SERVICE D S h t STATION k On the comer. Complete autonX bile service. 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