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'' r t ' ' '' ' - i '''- ' 1 - - 4 t tet - It has been repeatedly pointed out that this cabin was not the "firEt house built in Utah" and that It should be labeled as the "first house built in Salt Lake City" But it does no good to correct the error They still keep right on peddling the cards to tourists on Temple square and in all the curio shops in the west Perhaps when the existing supply of cards is sold out a correcticn may be made on a new printing Most likely not Ancient error is very persistent Here in Ogden we too have an old log cabin on the Tabernacle square There seems to be no flaw in the' chain of title which Mrs Minerva Stone Shaw has traced back to the fort Miles that William Goodyear built on the Weber river lust north of West 28th street It may be the first he built there If so in what year was it built? The plaque On the 'monument erected by the Trails' association reads len" "about WILY NOT YEAR 1841? - -- la Utah" ' " '' - ' ':c ' ' § :: : ! 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' ' ' ' I 7 -- "- i -------- ''4: - x :':- ::-- :: 4 ':' i: c:-: IF vbl ' i':5''" 1 ' A i ': Ar 14s 14i :''' '11:1: 1::--:-- 4itt : ::::: o --- 4:i3i 1 7' 1 1!::k 'f A:!1- t 1 ilt::: kklit lilit tr 4 '" ' ': o -- '''klo : : 1::' :P i ':'':"1 k T ' (91‘ 1::::' NA'4iiiik :: v:::::::::::'::'::::::4 - 1:' - 1- - —' ' "" :"' t g :7 A z::::i:1 :"40:::::: :: Covered wagons depicting a scene frOm the Old west which rolled in Ogden's Pioneer days parades of 1931 as shown Heavy wheels and heavy springs brought home to parade riders one type of hardship which pioneers had to contend with That brings us up to 1846 In the summer of that year the Hastings party of emigrants bound for California insde a short cut from Port Bridger around the south end of the lake They came down the Weber river and spett nearly a week getting their wagons through 41Devil's Gate" which had already gained its evil name Several of that party wrote accounts of the trip None of them mention Goodyear that Goodyear's fort stood about 100 yards from the Weber river and a ' little north of West 28th street and a good two miles from the junction of the rivers There is also the statement that fornia by a son Brown for $500 And from the first Captain Brown and his followers enjoyed butter and cheese from the milk furnished by the herd of cows Goodyear sold with the other stock the cabin was sold to Captain Goodyear was something more than James Brown "with a Spanish land a "trapper and trader" Bancroft Among the pioneer relics on disgrant covering practically all of in his history of Utah lists Good- play in Mayor Harman W Peery's Weber county" If Goodyear - had year as "farming" And he gives the office are a pair of highly pola land grant it was from Mexican names of three other white men ished ox horns given him last year authorities not Spanish And the who were farming or trying to by Traffic Officer W W RichardWEEKS CUTTING ROAD grant if it existed apparently cov- when the settlers - under Captain son Jr came the ered that part of Weber county Brown arrived Measuring 48 inches from tip to Just behind Hastings Then again why ignore the fact tip the horns once adorned the Read party later spoken of as the lying west of the mountains which Donner party They spent three is far from 'being "practically all" that Goodyear had a Mexican name head of an ox owned by Alex TALKS ABOUT GRANT for the trading post he built on the weeks cutting a road from Echo early day freighter accordto Richardson CaliThe animal Bancroft his He in to Beuna called Weber? of it "Fort Emigraing canyon across the hills history tion canyon and the present site of I fornia lists Miles Goodyear as hay- Ventura" and if he hoisted any flag I pulled lumber used in construc Salt Lake City Several members ing a license issued by the Mexi- it would of course be the Mexi- tion of many early landmarks here of that party wrote accounts of can authorities in Monterey as an can flag The records of the Good- including the Broom hotel the D' trader" But searchi year family in California refer to Peery residence the Mercer their experiences Apparently none "Indian I of the Mexican records in I it as "Fdrt Beuna Ventura" But I block and several others of them had heard of Goodyear California has so' Utah won't have it that way It In 1846 also Briant author of southern Adventures" came far failed to show any proof Ii sstill just "Goodyear's Fort" down the Weber bound for Califor- that Miles had any "land grant" ANOTHER GOODYEAR talked about his nia He too had a miserable time Miles may have But there was another Goodyear may have actually believgetting through Devil's Gate He "grant" who deserves to rank as a pioneer one' but lawyers ernf did not contact Goodyear But early ed he had descendants of and one of the founders Utah of Captain by the next year 1847 he did meet up ployed - of Ogden That was Miles' younger James Brown to develhave failed The first issue of the D6seret with Goodyear in Los Angeles Andrew But try to find News why say it on brother Mil published in 1850 stated that any mention of him in any history bronze plaque? of pAper would be to "Sunny Cal" and was selling that ' packages ConIt should not be forgotten that of Utah inHe came outof from to Isaac Clark of Brownsbuckskins to the members of the Miles hunt1847 the necticut spring was a Connecticut Yankee ' "ville for distribution Mormon Battalion and that Connecticut had a glorious ing up his brother Miles William was the name then liriant refers to him as "a Mr tradition about sellingwooden nut- - Andrew arrived in Salt Lake City Brownsville to later became the what applied of on the megs And he may have believed soon after the arrival Brigham Goodyear who has located Weber river since we came through that his license as an Indian trad- Young's party He was directed up city of Ogden Its first name honer carried title to the land he to "Fort Beuna Ventura" and was ored Captain James Brown first there" That sounds rather cone sive- But Charles Kelly of Salt Lake claimed as his Anyhow he did with his brother when the sale permanent settler City author of "Salt Desert Trails" make a real estate sale and got the to Brown was made From that time on he was the constant com- he have anything to do with foundexpresses the belief that Goodyear actual cash located at Ogden in 1845 He says: On that plaque Miles is spoken panion of Miles Goodyear until the ing Ogden? If so why has the Bar city he helped to start never found "My guess is that he started his of as a "trapper and trader" Why latter's death at Goodyear's 1849 He occasion to name a school buildNovember in California 1845 of and sfop at that? Why not go on and ranch in the winter started to plant in 1846 but not tell that he was the first white appears in California history as a ing a park a street an avenue earlier" farmer or rancher in northern founder of Benicia But in atUtah or so much as an alley after Miles all William or Andrew Goodyear So bow old is that cabin on the Utah That he plowed up land and history he does not appear 1842 of But then for that matter what 'Bancroft date the And is Tabernacle square? there any planted crops Jim Bridger is quotgives monument as has this city ever erectwhen as the time ed "so as that known is got that far it Goodyear telling quite gleefully proof the first permanent house built in Goodyear's efforts at raising corn his first license as a trader from ed to the memory of Captain James Utah?" What about the houses the were a failure A party sent north the Mexicans That is 94 years ago Brown? Indians burned in Uintah county in by Brigham Young In August 1847 Five years before the coming of the Perhaps some time the Trails 1844? reported Goodyear's corn "as being pioneers It is hardly possible to association will decide to take down write the history of those early that plaquemelt It up and recast Again why say that the cabin in lassie" He was also a stockgrower Be- days without speaking of him And it with a more careful selection of "stood near the junction of the Ogden and Weber rivers?" That sides cattle and horses he had a 89 years have passed since be turn- dates and words seems like a careless use of words flock of around –100 Mexican goats ed over the ranch or farm or trad4 About 140000000 tons of coal Jensen the church historian de- and sheep—that-behad probably ing post to Captain Brown and his cided more than thirty years ago driven up from Southern Cali men of the Mormon battalion Did i are burned annually In EnglAnd T Horns Among Peery Relics To-pon- ce 1 I I - 1 Brownsville Was City's First Name Then for-yard- ed - - -- -- - - e ' : ': i I The writer of this would like to have someone connected with the ' Trails association advance the ar- guments if any exist for using that date ''about 1841" There does not k appear to be any good reason for guesssing that Goodyear was located on the Weber that early c Fremont with a party of over 20 mountaineers came down the Bear – river in September 1843 and spent a week in the vicinity of Plain City and Little Mountain and made a 4a trip to an island in the lake He makesno mention of Goodyear or his trading post "Fort Beuna tura" He was back in Utah the ' next year 1844 returning to the UnIted States He came north as far as American Fork He again had a chance to mention Goodyear He was back again in Utah In - 1845 exploring the south end of the Great Salt Lake Still no mention ' of Goodyear Incidentally let us note that on his return trip in 1844 he stopped at a trading post at or near the present site of Fort 'Duchesne in trintah county He found that the Indians had burned the fort a short time prior What did the Indians find to burn? Undoubtedly cabins—"the first houses built -- ' ' :::ti - - : s e:!: '' ' ' '?n" ' - I ' ' ' " orlf :'1: 71"0r''' ' e ' i i ' - k ' ' r::::: - ' ''''' - - - :1 g ' ' ' t''- '7 ' ' ' r 5::'":i::::'3::::g::-1:0:-::t:::- By O A KENNEDY HE- writer of this has received a postal message from a T 'correspondent in southern California written on the back of a card which displays a picture of a log cabin under "a' pergola on Temple square Salt Lake City" and which is further described as the "first house built in Utah" ' ' iii 71 4!!'':: 7 - ''f - it:41i::: - '' :"7"::41-- ' 4 t' : - ' -I ' So Says' Early Day Writer 'Suggests Ogden Pay Tribute To Captain- Brown 91 Also - Brothers Who Settled it City ' ' I ' r ''''' ' ' ::- - ''' : : ' ''''': -:' ' '''''' '4 ' ' ?"'- - : :::: '1'''''''''' ' :::: ' '''--- 2: -- :1'''-- : - ' - - :::?::i::::: :::- ' :: '" f' :: r :' :i :: :: : :4:-: : '2:::- ::- ::: : : '4 : ' 1i''- ' ' N '" ' ' :'' — -- -- ' : '' :': : ::: ::::1i ': - ' - 2 Z '' ' ' ' ' ' ' -'- —:: - ' ' ': ' ''- ' ' '7'-'- ' f1 i 4 i: — - ' - - I - t- - - '' - ' ' '' ' r - : - i ' - '4- "I - '' t - ia i s' ' -- '' ''' 172 - 7 L- ' ---- -- : - 4 ri ' : - ' i it t N t -- 44 4 - 1 4 A - -1 : t-- 4 P - 1 A t -- s: ' : - - -- - -- - " - - --- ) 0 ASm I " ': :- ' - - - - ' ' - ''wmirdiAsivaoreer - : - 4t i I ''!"1' - !V"' i : f ‘' 1 -- : - ' : " ' 4 r v - 4 ' ' : 7- '' 1 3 4 i i : 41 4— - ' ' 4 :" -- - - r - ' 1— 1 ' '- ''' '''''' 1'e' i i4' l'-- :''' - 'r't t '' ‘ - :: r of-th- e ': :''''' - s 4 4''' ' k - -i- 1- 4:: -- r"' ' - 4r - ' ' ' '' t - 'r 74diadoetmadix Trees were' still groviing on Twenty-fift-h street tower left when this photograph was taken Telephone poles were much in evidence in the center of the streets where they also served as hitching street and Grant avenue in days posts for horses Lower right shows the corner of Twenty-fift- h by Ben Lomond looms up plainly in the loakgrounclithe mountains being about the only gone skyline which has not changed portion — '''''' s 4 0 4 ' ::: i 7 'k -- - ' 1 'N '' i ''- - "''""1"Y'--- —A1040 i r:- - 4 ' '''''' : - ''' t - - ' 1 r--- :'-'s 16 4 s1 ' 4 - - - - s - ' 1611:ao il 2 : - - '5"" ''' s ! - ':o-oe"'"'"': ': ''1 ' ' ' - 7 1 : ' - ''":' ""7-14- : ' y - — i l''' - : - - - - 5 ' - ''' - - r '' - - - V - - - - r : ' f : t I - f $':: Aim |