Show FROM THE PIONEERS secretary rognon of ef the semi con cen commission Is ia receiving letters from many of toe the pioneers telling ol of relics to ID their possession possess ioD george murdock writing from leh lebl says say that he be has baa in his possession an old copper kettle and a pan that hat were used crossing the plains carlos li 16 sessions of bountiful writing under date of march 7 saya he has bline chairs la in good condi condition tiou that thai his bin grandmother fatty Sessi session ond W brought brug tit here bare in 1847 are over years yean old and that hla his mother has a obest and a walking oane cans made in iii nauvoo from a piece of the box in which joseph joaeph smith smiths s bady was wae brought from carthage jail all to nauvoo after the he martyrdom abb K F of farmers ward reports that hat be has a pair of spectacles a sliver silver spoon a hand band beg bag and a bej brought here in 1847 the spread la Is over seventy five yeara old Clario naJ seely beely of kunt pleasant sanpete POtO county reports having a family clock a rifle a bake kettle and a 6 iro fro a coop eftis tool used to split staves franklin W young writing to the semi centennial commission atalee that his bis fattier father lorenzo Ij orenzo dow young came asma with the Jio rion eera neets on july 24 1847 and be followed in one of the companies comp anlo arriving october 4 to in laako chaste chiass 1 d ten and J M granta fifty ho was but light eight years jeanola je anold old bud and walked most moot ot of the way from the missouri river driving sheep heep and cows thedac the day after the arrival in salt bait lake his lather father weighed a up p all the provisions and unlaced we the family on rations of four our ounces of flour floor per par day which witla with a little milk irom from the leg weary and lue ue flesh of pilgrim cattle improperly called beef maue made up out our living he further sayf saye my lather father built a double log house boube where president brigham young afterwards built his hie lamous famous bee hive house bouse sad and we moved into it before christmas of the year 1847 being we he first family to move out of 01 the be fort A my mother brother lorenzo dow bow jr was wag the first white male ob child lid born in salt bait lake valley on sept during the spring of 1848 I 1 herded herded cows cow carrying with me a little teapot of buttermilk for my dinner and wine wa expected to bring the teapot home at night lull full of degoes for the fama family breakfast I 1 also restated assisted in the valor endeavor to scare the crickets off eft our ear growing crops and witnessed their destruction by the aea aa guile and the crops saved I 1 recall to mind the gathering of a few of the ripest heads of wheat which after laying on the house a day or two were pounded out with a ottok and a little grist of ef a few quarts of wheat was waa taken up to mill in the mouth ot of city crook ore canyon and ground whole wheat floii I 1 sud ud I 1 remember being given a whole biscuit at once I 1 herded cows and sheep right in tho the city more especially where now the thirteenth seventeenth and twentieth wards ward are located on one occasion two p martlea artles of indiana indian had bad a scalping scraps scrape near the lort and in fleeing up city creek one oils old lame ame indian known so aa OM orold limpy P threatened to shoot me with an arrow for revenge I 1 suppose sup tor the loss lose of nome acme of his friend frien dg and my teet feet and legs barely saved me I 1 recall to mind the spirit of excitement of desperate haste and rilles of teams wagons diato eaf otherl other loading by emigrants going to california Cali tornia who would give or everything for a tat pony saddle taking a few pounds of fiam floate babon and coffee and hastening on an to fib to the Ii famous jamous gold mines of ola I 1 woo was in bait lake city when he abe army passed through tb rough ready with many others EO 10 burn the city if hooft slon sion tired |