Show - g1 2 7 Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley Delta Utah $15 00 in county $18 00 out ot county 6 months $8 00 and $9 00 (In Advance) Preseason elk Wankier Some would call it luck but Delta hunter Bart Wankier calls it blessings" after drawing special antelope and elk hunting permits and then bagging trophies of both big game species within a few days LDS mission September Bart returned home from the 17 and two days later he shot an Antelope with a 14Vi inch rack on the West Desert Three days after that while hunting with a special bull elk with five shots permit near Panguitch he downed a from a The elk's rack was 41 Vi wide and the animal weighed 650 lbs drssed-ou- t Bart plans to have the antlers mounted and a friend Rex Day is displaying the skin at his office in Delta The Kanosh Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe held an open house last Friday afternoon by conducing a dedicatory ceremony and escorting visitors on a tour of the new plant Art Monsen president of the Paiute Board in Economic Development Salt Lake City was the Master of Ceremonies The Tribe’s new business venture and is is Paiute Fabric Products Economic owned by the Paiute and was Corporation Development Bands five wholly financed by the of the Paiute Indian Tribe Monsen said economic developDan ment was what Congressman in who was instrumental Marriott had in mind the Tribe restoring when he helped the Tribe regain its tribal status McKay Pikyavit Paiute Economic and Board member Development past Chief of the Paiute Tribe gave the dedicatory prayer in both the Indian and English languages Madelan Tribal Board Member that the new Redfood commented enterprise would not only give self to the but esteem to the Paiute Tribe community as well Dean Wilcox of the Bureau of Indian Affairs whose office is in Cedar City had nothing but praise and their Tribe for the Paiute “I am amazed at their endeavors ability to get things done" he said "I hold this Tribe on a pedestal Everyone looks to the work of this Tribe as an example” Plant Manager Doug Nielsen of Fillmore who has worked with other Visitors mapped No one knows whv ( Preuss had so little interest in numine things alia himsell He certamlv had lire ncht to do so since mans W esiern gcogiupluc locations lust appeared on his maps To this dav mans W esiern feature bear the name of remont a peak a river an archaic Indian culture cie But even remont did not exercise the hbcrtv to name things ike he could have Map historian I rw in (i Guddc wrote "II explorers ever had a chance to bestow geographical names n was remont and Preuss But their con to tributions geographical nomenclature amount to vetv little " Despite the reluctance toward place naming on his own maps Pieuss’s name shows up on several unexpectantlv other maps beginning in the 1850s Docloi Pteuss speculates that alter completing woik on his own maps ( Preuss consulted with other scientific mappers ol L tali and the W est such as Beckwith and Stansbury Gunnison and that it might have been one of these mappers who aflixed the Preuss name to a lake in what is known as the Wall W ah allcv That todav lake is onlv a drv hardpan Doctor Preuss has documented that the Preuss name was atlixed to the lake and vallev on no less than six 19th ( en turv maps up to and including the G k Gilbert map ol ancient I ake Bonneville Thai map published around I9(X) w hie h is still m print labels one ol the ake Bonneville (the southern bavsol Wah Wah Vallev) as Pieuss Vallev Vs lor regular topographical and road maps Doctor Preuss thinks the name was not so much dropped as displaced bv contusion between the old li tiss ake and a reservoir near Gar tali on the t tali Nevada rison bolder that discovered Preuss Doctor towards the end ol the I9lh ( enturv the ake earlier identified old Preuss was ake south ol Sevier showing up on the I tali Nevadi border near Gar nsoil The Docloi thinks lhal 20tll ( ell for the searched in vain luiv mappcis ake ol the earlv Pieuss maps a lake which bv then was dried up Since the re sere on neat G tr icon was the on remaining' bode ot watci ill the viamtv the lattei mappers niav have assumed that was the intended Pteuss lake lo add to the cor fusion the icservoir lie u unison is todav label cel oil modem mips is Pi ness lake dr ter cut It s a dil lete lit pc lime aid lake DoetO! Pteuss said lie ake in die W ah old Pteuss Wall Vallev is st ill bone eh according to Doctor Pteuss Modem t S maps ate cOiiiinuallv S and te u ed bv the u d i'cd Seitverv D'e’oi Pie ns (lee’l'gu me belote die ptej rmc ’o make Ins ( s Names omiliit curves (icogruphic which must approve all name tee chit ee and dc si mu' ions t Paiute sewing plant inspect sewing plants in producing sportswear said this operation will be a new experience for him "I didn’t know w hat to expect by working with the Indians” he said “I wondered if would be meeting witch doctors and “but ground shakers” he joked everyone here has been very helpful ’’ He said the plant has a contract to produce coveralls for Rockwell International at the present time and also are making hoods for another company that will be used in a computer chip business “Wc will mostly Millard County is focus of quest to retain the memory of Charles Preuss project Coincidentlv BrushW cllrnan main locaicd mining and milling operation is in Millard ( ouniv norih ol Delia jusi north and east of the Wall Wah Vallev This has allorded Doctor Preuss the chance to visit the vallev and explore someot the countrv ho great uncle Inst 13 Oct 1985 3 Paiutesopen sewing plant Bart A Cleveland doctor claims the drv hardpan south of Sevier ake known should as the Wah Wah Valley rightfully be named alter his great un cle the master mapmaker (Italics Preuss whose name has been lost in the nomenclature ol the geographical est Historians know Charles Preuss as the topographer and caitographei who with John Charles Fremont gave the world its first accurate scientific maps of the West just on the threshold ol the great western expansion Brigham Young used Preuss’ maps and Lre mont’s description of the Great Salt Lake Valley in making his decision to take the beleaguered Mormons to their new home in the desert Despite his importance in the earlv exploration of the West Preuss’ name does not appear among the geographic names on modern maps However his greatgrand nephew Otto Preuss M D ol Cleveland claims his unde did once have his name aflixed to what is now called the Wah Wah Valiev south ol Sevier ake in Millard ( ouniv Doctor Preuss said for reasons that are not clear the name was dropped from 20th (enturv maps It has been his passion lor the past few scats to document the naming ol the vallev with the hope that it might be rightlul ly renamed Doctor Preuss makes his case with thick files ol documents gleaned Irom hours ol research in libraries Irom Vs head ol W ashington D ( to Utah the health division lor BrushWdlman Beryllium Inc he has the chance to travel around the countrv and spends as much spare time as possible on the 76 No ol USPS Copy 25c commercial be type producing clothing here rather than sportswear” he said “The bidding process goes on even month for the 190000 coveralls per year that Rockwell buys” Nielsen said “We hope we can keep making these coveralls for them” The new fabric plant is located in at the old tribal office building HI South Main Street in Kanosh reThe building was completely modeled after having set idle for the tribal a number of sears after Kanosh ""IVmfiV Rfe Mgs' ' 1 f faJ ZT'r fj r 5j ln t w J q!XYJr W V - l b EV-i ffA S t v o CCT r IxvODb is l i si o jr Y - tp'lrx r7 - s ‘‘"t V ' Jhh O IIRhoJV- a t o"J‘ V rW - in office was moved to Cedar City “It has taken about a sear and a half after the Tribe set things in motion for this plant to be completed and in operation" Nielsen commented Paiute Fabric Products employes 35 people he said of which 50 percent of the employees are Indian all The from the Kanosh Band Paiute Tribe is formulating plans to expand their sewing industry into other areas as well Nielsen said "Thcs w ant to become unified and te become productive v Iln A' U a'C ur CMNraii a A’v CWf 'All'' Vy° a Li Vn 1860 atlas labels Valley shown here the threshold of the delineation of the territories between and the Pacific Ocean stand the three expeditions led In Govern and 1845-4ohn Charles Fremont during 1842 1843-4ment expeditions like those bv Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike many trapping expeditions especially the one sent by )ohn Jacob Astor to the mouth of the Columbia in 1812 and journeys of Jodediah Smith had given the people of the United States a glimpse ot the vastness and richness of the lands included in the Louisiana Pure huso the Oregon territory and the northern provinces of Mexico With Fremont the systematic and scientific exploration ot the West started Traveling with Fremont were two men who were kev to his expeditions: the famous mountain man trapper and Indian lightt r Kit Carson and Charles Preuss Preuss was a tall blond red taced German topographer lured in Washington Preuss drew three great maps in addition to numerous smaller maps and sketches Map historian Carl Wheat wrote The expedition altered the t ntir map that Preuss drew of the course of western cartography ' - lovo- - Preuss Lake roughly in center of map nKJSJT near the modern Wah Wah At bn and labels it Preuss Valley probably based on information from othi r 19th ( enturv maps whic h also named the valley south of Sevier ake as Preuss Lake or valley The name was later dropped on modern s which is still in print maps hut remains on Gilbert |