Show ' ' d ’ THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE NEWS FROM UTAH SL POINTSiSTATE WEDNESDAY MORNING Mystery Injury Of Utah Woman AS TO BE MOVED AHEPA CHIEF 1175 Men Will Transfer to Six New Camps in Utah Possible Skull Fracture Creek Organization Ends Seen as Victim Rests in Hospital District Convention at Price ery continued Tues- DEATH CLAIMS Dies Following h GRAIN BROKER Lengthy Illness BY SOCIALISTS OGDEN -- Mrs Alice J Whalen Ogden resident 45 years died at the street family home 575 Twenty-fiftfollow- Tuesday Candidates Named I lat- - ing a prolonged illness form Adopted at Mrs Whalen was 75 born about Convention years ago in MilWis a waukee daughter of James £ OGDEN — The Socialist party of and Utah at its state convention in' the married to Thomcity hall Tuesday afternoon named s' as A Whalen and partial state ticket as follows came to Ogden 45 John A years ago United States senator First district Whalen died Watters Duchesne 1928 She was Frank Edward Bates rumbs of Heart ’Sue- - Attack OGDEN— m IN AUTO CRASH CLEARFIELD — frends greeted Mrs Rebecca Brandon Wil cox pioneer at her homehere recently at which time she told of the trials and hardships that marked the 1848 ox team trip from e Council Bluffs Iowa to Citv Mrs Wilcox recited numerous poems of the pioneer days She has enjoyed good health and has traveled extensively in recent months Mrs Wilcox with her mother six sisters and two brothers made the trip across the plains the father having died of cholera in Iowa One of Mrs Wilcox's brothers was the late Judge Thomas J Brandon once postmaster at Centerville while another brother Wilford W Brandon was a deputy United States marshal Mby ' Overton Resident Killed as Machine Overturns Near Delta Salt-Lak- Frank Edward Bates 48 prominent Ogden grain broKer died Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the family street of home 1232 Twenty-eightheart attack Mr Bates was associated with the Farmers’ National Grain company in Ogden for many years being assistant manager for two years Later he was with the Globe Grain and Milling company for five years After h Margaret Car Woman 92 Tells INEVADAN DIES Of Trip! Ox-Tea- s OGDEN—Movement of 1175 C G C men into S1X new camps and several OOTEN-Mystexlstlng camps in Utah will begin day night to surround the circum announced Ernest Winkler of stances of a possible skull fracture Friday the forest service liaison officer for PRICE— Harry G Metos Salt Lake suffered by Miss Carrie Owens 28 the Fort Douglas district of the street who was City attorney was elected governor of 540 Thirty-sixt- V JULY 25 1034 Early Resident TICKET PLACED IN FIELD ATTORNEY SELECTED & DELTA— The body of Joseph 1 Earl 82 Overton Nev who died here Sunday of injuries suffered in an automobile accidenl was taken to Las Vegas Nev Tuesday for funeral services and interment Mr Earl with his wife and a daughter who was driving the car were en route Friday to Evanston wy° to vislt another daughter Mrs - Second d“tnct conBress' e p Ed Muir it Co for several years he business session of the at Washington avenue and Thirty- - from weherrountv as well as sev overturned pinning him beneath il Catholic fourth street at 2’30 a m returned to Ogden where he had u Mrs Wbalen His skull was fractured but other man A U Porter Springvllle church- - and had men forest eral service experienced Police' expressed the belief 1 fc as members of the party were only and superintendents in state supreme court justice Bert been active in church affairs through-- been a grain broker for more thanj supervisors woman either had fallen from seven years bruised new and existing camps Westover Duchesne state treasurer out her residence here Youths Given automobile or had been struck by Seventy-eigh- t Born in Richmond Va m 1886 a Brigham They had come this wav to visit new men will leave Mrs Isabella Adamson Salt- Lake Surviving are a daughter and son son of Edward and Mary Bates he one They are seeking a young man'here Knd relatives on their way to Eyan-stond 82 Saturday for a City W H Loos and Dr Walter E pother Mrs C C to Assignments came to Utah at an early age He who wrs standing beside the uncon Zion'NaUoiial brotha leaders This sister and Whalen representing party Ogden Forty park a City treasurer Nick Salevurakis scious woman when she was found inewcmpin will be directed by the na- all parts of the s’ate attended the er Margaret and Charles Doyle had since resided here He was member of the George Washington Price marshal P Pitsios Bingham by Charles Emmett and Mrs Melba camp inBRIGHAM CITY — Twenty-eigh- t tional park service in improving the convention Milwaukee Pocatello was selected as the con- Dee The young man witnesses said Namest lodge No 24 F and A M and was in southern Utah of the chairman was Other Watters Mr camps park experienced young men of Brigham Family Group services will be conducted a Funeral If woman the asked she Mason and a vention city for 1938 the degree repeatedly During will be established in Ephraim and convention William C Sumner Ogm 10 St at a in Josephs member of the Ancient and Accepted City were selected Monday by the Pioneer day parade visiting dele- was hurt but she did not answer Provo Man President near reservoir near den vice chairman O A Kennedy Thursday Catholic church with the Rev P F Scottish Rite and the El Kalah tem- county F E R A committee to work Police said the man who was re- Beaver Strawberry gates and members of the order E F Evans Kaler near Hollow and near Ogden secretary The mass the Kennedy celebrating inarched as well as the Ahepa band ported to have been driving a green Vernal and near Ml Nebo in ple Mystic Shrine at Kaler Hollow C C C camp near the vi- Duchesne assistant secretary holy rosary will be recited at the Of Salt Lake City directed by John coupe accompanied the woman to PROVO— A H Christensen of ProSurviving Mr Bates are his widof Nephl cinity Kirkendall-Darlinmortuary chapel ow Mrs Inez Bates two daughters Vernal as follows: Campaign Held Groups vo waj reelected president of the L Following this the Ahepans the hospital but left Immediately 1175 men will bring Utah’s to The l Noble Reeder 8:30 m Richardson Friends Wayne p Miss June Bates arid Miss Frances M C Christensen family association placed a wreath on the pioneer wo- Miss Owen was taken to the Thomas tal enrollment to about 3760 in 16 Th convention selected the follow- Wednesday at Don F Johnson at the chapel Wednesday from Adncy Shepherd man monument in Pioneer park The D Dee hospital by W H Woodyatt Mr Winkler said “Other ing campaign committees: State E 6 to 9 p m and Thursday until 9 Bates all of Ogden and a sister Mrs Marcus Pulsipher Dee Christensen at a reunion of 75 members from camps" Emma Gussio of Washington D C Utah Idaho and Wyoming at Vivian principal speaker during this cere- of 3119 Jefferson avenue and J F men for the six camps being estab- M Webber Ogden chairman Mrs John Howarth Byron C Jensen El Burial will be in Mountain Funeral mony was Mr Georges arrangements are under mer E Yates Crompton of 3054 Adams avenue lished are to be selected from Utah Adamson Mr Evans Mr McConnell a m park Sunday and Monday Programs Fowler Edward View cemetery Clyde A dance at the Silver Moon hall passing motorists direction of lhe Kirkendall-Darlinsports a luncheon and a dance com2500 or more population as a and Mr Porter First congressional cities of Christensen Earl Petersen CarDale the activities Tuesday night concluded the three-damortuary drouth relief measure The 16 experi- Darwm Condie Cedar City Emil ter Glen Ingram Ford Jeppson prised convention Other officers elected were Nellie LEGION POST TO MEET enced men also authorized however Munz Duchesne and Vern Bullough Groes-bec- k Woodrow E Richard Tyner Second congressional district Christensen Manti vice president DAUGHTER BORN Banquet Speakers SPRINGVILLE — Commander Ed may be selected from the various Ogden Albert J Hansen Clarence Mrs Robert Erwin Sunset J E Butler Virginia Keeler of Latuda hiscounties near the camps” Senator William H King and RepMURRAY— Dr and Mrs announces the American LeJohnson R - O' Poulson Ray S Jensen Henry AbSalt Lake City and Mr£ Adamson at 8 p m Wed- Johnson 208 Elm avenue announce bott John Finn Richard Meads El- torian and Sherman Christensen of will resentative Abe Murdock were the meet post gion Provo secretary The platform adopted demands: in Memorial hail to elect the birth of a principal speakers at the convention daughter at mer Johnson Earl Kelly Rogcoe Mm-soHome Modernization “That homesteads on the farms’ nesday Ma-to state at hr the convention the Lake Salt Cross C Holy J delegates Hunsaker ' banquet MondfijrTiighl hospital Sherman PeterCity (Additional State News on Pages and homes in the cities be TOOELE— Sheriff A 0 Evans and sonic temple Utah’s senior senator at 2:20 a m Monday next month sen Sixteen and Twenty-two- ) Discussion Scheduled from taxation up to the exempted sum of Logan highly praised the Order of Ahepa Deputy Edward Nelson stopped an $2500 and the nation from which the mem- eastbound ton and a half truck on "That the state build and maintain bers came Lauding the part Greece the Victory highway near Williams’ TAYLORSVILLE Methods of ad- cooperative marketing and purchasplayed in the World war the result service station about 11 p m Monday Of which eliminated the danger of and upon investigation discovered it vancing the home modernization pro- ing agencies throughout the state “The acquisition of idle industrial gram will be explained tn residents that country's losing its freedom Sen- was loaded with ahnut 35 of this area Thursday at the L D S plants mines etc by the state to ator King declared the United States kegs of whisky The driver was amusement By ANDREW JENSON hall by representatives furnish employment for idle citizens does not wish U become embroiled brought here and locked up in the of the Utah Power and Light com- and that the household products in conflicts with other nations but county JalL From Preceding Page) (Continued settlement in ’Sait Lake valley was ing years Kanesville was built on February 1849 and on the 5th of the Meetings will be held at 2 produced by such action be distribnevertheless the ear of democracy is The truck driver who says he is pany m uted at cost to the needy citizens tlement m on a stream afterwards recruited by the arrival “of several the present site of the city of Council latter month the mercury dropped to sensitive and when tyranny raises its a Bulgarian refused to give his name p The and 8:15 p a little parties of the disbanded Mormon bat- Bluffs known as Haight’s creek company has built an electric of the state or make any comment head America will speak out 33 degrees below zero southwest of the present site of talion from State Clinlo In General Command “We want liberty not only for our No charges have been filed and home modeled after the one at the Some of Most of the people lived in tfie California When Davis later county Kaysville selves but for all other nations" the stoekade or fort' wrtrl the sprmg-ofBrighaffl'Yming-bad'genefal-coffldusrfftnv saLJtjraga-ftaTato adequately provide Medical and ergSfflzf anoBRTtrWmrTrom the newly found mines of California mand of all the companies in 1848 1849 although a few had moved out ance A cooking school is conducted dental care for those unable to se- tain Daniel C Davis of the Mormon and this was used as money by the and Daniel H Wells was his of the United States is not merely an in the sheriff’s possession Mr Baker at the afternoon and built on their city lots in 1848 Mrs show a creek a battalion who Settled on by cure it Instrument for people of the United was not available Tuesday Furthei A vast field of 8009 acres was surS marHorace was settlers One Eldredge in company brought Welch States but its influehce eventually Investigation Is being planned “That adequate insurance laws little south of the present site of two brass cannon by The remaining schedule for Sail of veyed south of the city divided into' shal was Hosea Stout and for $512 captain purchased Other distinguished pioFarmington Will throw off hierarchies and tyran- Sheriff Evans lots and these and Lake county follows: Granger July Including unemployment maternity neers of Davis county were Thomas which were later used as a means of the night guard in President Young’s nical rules until all men will stand In and old age pension be operated by to the people by distributed were notable division other defense Indians 31 Magna August 2 and Garfield peo‘Among against Grover Daniel 'Wood A B Cherry for the masses and attempt to guarthe state without profit the aun of liberty" cost being a small fee August 3 HolThe discovery of gold in California ple with the emigration of 1848 were lol ihe only He stated he had played a proml antee security for every man “T h e restoration of unearned Anson Call John Stoker Joseph the to D During the Lorenzo surveyor Snow pay Richards Franklin Nathan T Porter William near Sutter's Mill on the American “We must keep on with liberal legBent part In developing organization wealth to the community and state brook of 1849 nearly all the people 24 1848 Joseph F Smith (then a lad of 9 spring took river of settler (first kaysville) place January Kay of Ahepa throughout tha land be- islation until every many woman and Fairview Store Robbed by steeply graduated taxes on gifts out of the stockade and as and among the discoverers were six years) his mother Mary Fielding moved cause he appreciated the splendid child is on an equal basis The only inheritances and the higher brackets Christopher Layton and others the own ox Smith drove grew and extended the fort her city (who Loot team) Valued at $500 of income Weber county was the scene of the ‘Mormons’’ who were among the is work of that organization The influ- way to perpetuate the constitution Soon there ‘ and wife gradually disappeared" Bishop Newel K ence of the Ahepa organization has to give every American to under“The repeal of criminal syndical- next settlement but its occupation men employed by James W Mar- (Elizabeth - Ann) Whitney Vilate Kimball was nothing left to show where it Mr shall Sutter’s men white even business antedates valued a FAIRVIEW— he the stand has Merchandise in that partner by ism place society of laws' permeated organizations composed Mary Ann An gel Young Robert T had stood except a few adojie walls with and It is the duty of our government at more than $500 from the Fairview - “That the salaries of ' state offi- settlement of Salt Lake valley by the who found the first particles of gold Burton people of other nationalities George D Granl William Settling Utah Valley When the latter reached The names of these six men were beneficial results he said It will be to aee that the common people have Mercantile company's store is being cials shall in no case exceed $2500 pioneers and Phineas Richards Kay 1849 M a Alexander S burStevens the settlement of James In March Brown officers Miles Salt economic social Lake and infollowing valley by sought Goodyear a security of character and justice" through people year with the exception- of those The of 1848 pursued the Utah The 'valley was undertaken salaries fixed by the state constitu- had a trading post on the Weber James Barger William Johnston route companies tegrity such as that possessed by Talks dealing with the history glary Friday of followed the pioneers by Entrance was gained through The tion man chosen to head the colony was river about two miles above the junc- Azariah Smith Israel Evans end 1847 Ahepans that will assure everlasting Ideals and objectives of Ahepa were 20 on 1848 and the September John S Higbee one of the original freedom for American people he de- given by'P S Marthakls Salt Lake front door and the loot loaded on a "The abolition of the state spies tion of the Ogden and Weber rivers Henry W Bigler advance teams of that' year’s emigra‘ At the head of about 30 The fort was located on the Weber In August 1848 the people living tax pioneers clared City national supreme vice presi- truck in the rear of the store Cast reached the Lake from tion Salt families with wagons horses cows river near a large sand mountain in the fort in Salt Lake valley numdent C E Athas Salt Lake City County Sheriff E J Petersen and Praised Nation the of under Brig- work cattle farming leadership and building about a mile southwest of the present bered about 1800 and the next month valley national supreme governor and John Parley Syndergaard city marshal of Representative Murdock praised union depot in Ogden Mr Good- the number was "greatly increased by ham Young- - Heber C Kimball’s implements seed and provisions he Georges' and Harry Metos of Salt Ml Pleasanl who assisted Fairview the heritage of Greece along the lines Lake few a arrived later days set out from Salt Lake City early in peace officers Friday stated the car City year claimed a tract of land 20 miles the arrival of the second year’s im- company of culture literature and art and within a month all the trains March to found a settlement on the containing the stolen merchandise Mayor Talk square comprising the greater part migration from the east ' This immi- and with this Introduction he applied his ’ reached Willard the valley had headed north as empty of what is now Weber county Provo river which stream was called by gration as well as the one of 1847 remarks to the United States with the The excellent citizenship qualities evidently s company lost many cattle on Timpanogos containers and boxes known to have The article appearing to This company of virtue of a grant from the Mexican was planned - by President Young assertion that a government must of members of the Order of Ahepa held merchandise from the store were the flats the alkali Sweetwater oq soon reached the river where day which tells of the early government made to him in 1841 and the different companies constikeep abreast of the progress made in were praised in brief addresses by found on the road between Fairview so and this impeded the march that He had a squaw for a wife and a tuting the expedition left the located their settlemenl naming days in the Salt Lake valley science culture and other fields In Mayor B W Dalton District Judge and Pines where the trail was losl teams from the valley were sent they few mountaineers and which Is the first con and halfbreeds it Fort Utah but soon after changed river in the early part of June back to order to make this progress experi- George Christensen who probably help the rear of the trains lived with him at the Goodyear fort 1848 It consisted of three distinct its name to Provo A fort was soon tinuation of the series that ments such as those now being un- has admitted more natives of Greece of 1848 which when the Mormon pioneers entered divisions The first of these was led The emigration and 225 acres planted with has been running in ' The completed dertaken by the nation must be tried to citizenship than any judge in the Assessor to Return numbered nearly 2500 increased the wheat Salt Lake valley and corn Notwithstand Tribune has been printed rye in person and by Brigham Young until something is evolved to eradi- state and R J Vaughn of Helper population in the valley to nearly To Office After Mishap so that It will take up three dis1229 Captain James Brown of the sick numbered past governor of the cate evils he declared people with 397 5000 people including those who ar- ing some trouble with the Indians detachment of the Mormon battalion wagons the settlement flourished Heber C Kimball bad “Because of greed and avarice of trict pages of your scrapbook after arriving in the valley in July charge of the second division which rived from the west How to feed PROVO—L M Atwood Utah counThe remainder of the program inYou should clip in the white certain predatory classes our governSanpete Settlement them through the winter was the 1847’ visited Mr Goodyear on the comprised 662 people and 226 between the divisions ment failed to keep up with progress cluded selections by the Ahepa junior ty assessor who suffered internal The first settlement in Sanpete space The of had harvest 1858 problem Weber in 1847 accident on his way wagons August Willard Richards"brpught been of the article In other lines with thi ' resultant band of Salt Lake City vocal duet injuries in an automobile to California on which occasion it up the rear with 526 nearly ruined by the devasta- valley was founded in November economic chaos of recent years" the Gooras sisters of Magna violin Selec- July 15 is expected to return to his Tomorrow the final day people and 169 tion of the Rocky mountain crickets 1849 by a company headed by Isaac l M is belieVed 0 that Mr Goodyear of wagons the last wagon leaving Wincongressman said “Now that new tions Miss Helen Kounalis Salt Lake office Wednesday Deputy there will be printed an inand would have been a total failure Morley Charles Shumway and Seth fered his property for sale In Jan- ter Quarters states of July 3 1848 names government experiments are being City and Introduction of local visitthe dex had not gulls from the lake appeared Taft They formed their settlement carrying of 1848 Mr return Atwood With the Brown James had who uary tried in an effort to rectify conditions ing dignitaries With the of a these emi- and devoured the crickets members of the original departure By liv- near the present site of Manti from California with money returned plans will go forward for starting rethe same predatory classes are crying Approximately 250 people attended for the west Winter Quarters ing on short rations sharing food one name taken' from the Book of Morcompany as well as a list in due his company of the Mormon bat- grants was that the constitutional rights of the banquet which was opened- by valuation of homes and buildings deserted and Kanesville with another and even eating of mon Sanpete is a corruption of all illustrations appeartalion for their services purchased east nearly The project was sched Nick Salevurakis of Price chairman the county American citizens are being of the Missouri river grew up in the series sego lily roots and thistles the Sanpitch the naipe of a noted Indian ing the Goodyear fort for about $3C0O in to start last week but was held uled Mr committee of tha convention Is violation no it But upon and became the outfitting place for people managed to eke out their ex- chief of the Ute nation Spanish gold This was the begin the “Mormon” up due to M Atwood’s absence f the constitution to do something Athas was toastmaster emigrants who came istence during the winter which was Tooele Valley' Settlement ning of the city of Ogden across the ocean and up the Mississevere lasted Cold weather The settlement of Tooele valley In the early part of 1848 the Infant sippi river by steamboats the follow-- very from December 1 1848 to late (Continued on Followtos Page) thTSmg third annual district convention held here Tuesday Mr Metos succeeds John Bockas of Ojjden Other officers selected follow Lieutenant governor George Cayias Salt Lake City secretary John Georges Salt Lake h-- u- 1 - n thirty-secon- may-cal- g Officers Seize Whisky Truck d - Early Days in the Salt Lake Valley n gg n sg?yr W 1 p a five-acr- ten-acr- e e 1 Attention! ifich-ards- ret-tier- Elk-hor- Utah-Idah- o Rad-mal- raw-hide- Early Days in the Salt Lake Valley Early Days in the Salt Lake Valley salt By in the First week VALLEY lake It was noon on July 24 1847 when the last of the pioneers under Presi- dent Brigham Young arrived in Salt Lake valley The next day (Sunday July 25) the first religious servkte were held in the pioneer camp and George A Smith preached the first public discourse The sacrament also waa administered On Monday' July 36 President - Young and others ascended Ensign peak which on that occasion was thus named it being a ' - ANDREW JENSON and the first roads made to the timber A saw pit had also been constructed and a large pine log brought down from the mountains for the purpose of converting it into lumber to be used for making a skiff On Monday August 16 a party of 71 men with 33 wagons 14 mules 16 horses and 62 yoke of oxen left the valley oh the return to Winter Quar ters Tunis Rappleye and Shadrach ROundy were captains of the first and second- - divisions — respectively This company arrived at Winter Quarters October 21 haying been — — Joseph B Noble and Willard Snow as captains of 50 and Abraham O Smoot’s hundred with George B Wallace and Samuel Russell as captains of 50 The additional company under the direction of Captain Charles C Rich" was somewhat independent In its organization and was generally known as the artillery company It was not attached to either of the four organizations of hundreds hut was rather recognized as a separate or fifth' hundred ‘Apostle Parley P Pratt generally traveled with Danier Spencer's hundred and -- Jey e the-most torn-pan- ' - -- - - i (Mote— Line reading ' n oy- Hunter's hundred Return to Winter Quarters Captain Wallace's 50 which may On Thursday August 26 Brigham serve as a sample of all the other Young and party started on the re- similar Organizations was divided turn to Winter Quarters This com- into companies of tens and contained pany was composed of 108 men with a total of 190 souls' with 84 wagons 36 wagons 71 horses and 49 mules 493 oxen and cows and 14 horses They arrived in Winter Quarters Divided into five subdivisions the Sunday October 31 and were joy proportion was as follows: fully received by the Saints Thus it First ten— James Smithies captain will be seen tha about 200 persons 26 souls 12 wagoni' and 81- oxen and were left' in the' valley after Ihe'de-partur- cows of most of the pioneers for Second ten— Samuel Rolfe capWinter Quarters The work of build- tain 42 souls 18 wagons 85 oxen and ing a fort on what is now known as cows Pioneer square jn Salt Lake City and Third ten— Joseph Moupt captain preparing for their stay and the many 34 souls 14- wagons 66 oxen and that should follow in the" wake of cows the first company of pioneers to )he Fourth ten— John Nebeker ygp- ' valley was toipertant-u- nlainTMsOuTs 20 'wa'gons 137 ' oxen Bfownarrivedih'lhe'vallSylaccorn and cows panied by some Saints from Missis- dertaking But the little company of '200 did Fifth teq— Samuel Turnbow cap- sippi 'This increased the number in not have to remain in th valley tain 35 souls 20 wagons 121 oxen the camp to about 400 alone very long The Mormon emi- and cows Summary of Work the that followed first gration' These companies consisting of perA summary of the work of the first across the plains and through sona with wagons horses week in the valley as reported by the mountains to- - the valley estab- mulestraveling oxen and cows began to arColonel Markham was as follows lished a' rendezvous on the Elkhorn rive in Salt Lake September Three Jots of land aggregating river a few miles west from the Mis- 20 1847 and the lastvalley wagons arrived about S3 acres had been plowed and souri river and made preparations to about October 6 planted- with potatoes peas beans start for vfhe valley in June 1847 Mora Battalias Beya corq pats buckwheat garden seeds They were divided Into (our cometc and about three acres of corn panies of hundreds and an additional The next arrivals in Salt Lake val and some beans and potatoes were military company as follows: 1 Dan- ley (following the immigration of already beginning to sprout Thir- iel Spencer's hundred under whom the 10 companies from Winter Quar teen plows and three harrows had Ira Eldredge and Peregrine Sessions ters in 1847) came from the west been worked during the week and acted as captains of 50 2 Edward reaching the valley October 16 1847 various repairs made to broken im- Hunter's hundred with Jacob Foutz They were members of the Mormon The valley had been ex- end Joxdph Home as captains of 50 battalion who had been mustered out plements plored the several canyons visited 3 Jedediah M Grants hundred withlof sen ice at Los Angeles Cal the Ion of the pioneers to raise an suggestive of the gathering of people from all nations The following day some Ute Indians visited the pioneer camp on City creek On the 27th an exploring expedition was made by Brigham' Young and others ' who crossed the outlet of Utah lake end named It the Western Jordan They then proceeded across the val to Black Sock pa Ihe Great Salt lake where they bathed for the first time In the waters of the inland sea returning to camp the next day - On the 28th the site for a temple was On the 29th the detachselected ment of the Mormon battalion wliich had wintered at Pueblo on the Arkansas river under Captain James previous July Hearing that the pioneers had reached Salt Lake valley they started for the valley first traveling north and then easl East of the Sierras they met Samuel Bran-naand Captain James Brown who had left the new colony in Salt Lake valley shortly after the arrival of the first pioneers Brannan was the man who wanted the Saints to settle in California and tried unsuccessfully to induce President Young to abandon tits intention- of settling In the Great Basin James Brown Informed the batth4-- rt -- ws— President tel tea-hYoung’s advice that those of the discharged soldiers who were without means should remain In California work through the winter and come to 'the valley with their earnings in the spring Heeding this advice about half the soldiers returned to Caltforhla some going to Sutter’s Mill where gold was discovered in January 1848 The others continued on to Salt Lake- valley bringing with them wheat corn potatoes and garden seed which were greatly needed and highly appreciated by the colonists Two days after their arrival 32 of these battalion boys set out for the Missouri river to rejoin their families there They reached their destination after piany hardships a'nd suffering' December' 18' 184$ - -- The First' Offshoot The fjrst settlement formed outside of Salt Lake City was at Bountiful (originally known as the Sessions Settlement) in Davis county Peregrine Sessions who had reached Salt Lake valley in September 1847 first moved there September 28 of that year only a few dayd after his arrival in the valleys' The immediate cause for his leaving lihe— pioneer colony was to obtam pasturage for his stock the range near Salt Lake City being pretty well crowded already with the stock of tle earlier pioneers Hector C Haight followed Elder Se'ions mating camp about six miles north of the Sessions set- - (Continued on roiioum Continued on Following Page" are Inserted for convenience of scrap books) pgi By (Continued Prom Preceding Page) ANDRtW JENSON portance was the settlement of Iron county undertaken in December 1850 The expedition was in charge of George A Smith and was organized on Peteetneet creek in Utah It consisted of a company county of more than 100 volunteers accom- - Governor Young He- the country now constitutes a part of Robinson ber C Kimball George A Smith and Wyoming' Governor Young’s purothers accompanied the commission chase was mgde from James Bridgcr to Millard county and assisted in the who held the place under a Mexican in 1857 the selection of the site of Fillmore This grant Subsequently courtly was chosen for the capital United States government took possolely on account of its being geo- session of Fort Bridger and made It a - — —- - — — graphically central but was after- miliUH'y poetr Cache was settled in 1856 by ward abandoned as the bulk of the county Peter and others at Wella-vitl- e in contained was Utah MaughUn in population and Beaver couniy was settled the northern countfesT" to Settlement creek a little south of tion a year before and reported by Carson county now in Nevada also the same year by Simeon Howd and the present site of Tooele City One hirp' as an eligible site for a settle13 others from Parowan of these men was Phineas R Wright ment Smith's company included 25 was settled in 1851 by Colonel John Kane county was settled in 1858 by GeReese located at and who a millwright Their purpose was to cavalry 32 others and 13 artillerybuild a mill near the mouth of Set- men besidesinfantry a camp guard The ar- noa Hampden S Beatie was one of Nephi Johnson and six others who tlement Creek canyon and there tillery manned one brass fieldpiece the Washpioneers there In 1855 mission- located in Virgin City (now Rowberry joined them A footnote In January 1851 they arrived on Orington from Lake under Salt aries county) City in Whitney’s History says: “Francis the stream known as Center creek Rich county was settled In 1863 by orH Lougy of Toggle who was blit a where they located the town of Paro-wa- son Hyde further colonized and little boy when- hq went there in now in Jron county As usual ganized Carson county Charley C Rich and mhny other 1849 with his stepfather Phineas R’ a fort was built and all the In i855 a colony led by Alfred N settlers Later Settlements Wright states that five families went lived for several years within its left Sanpete for the Elk Were Billings formed settlements Other by together immediately on the adjourn- walls for protection against the InLatter-daSairits as follows Wash mountains where they formed a set- ment of the October conference in dians 1849 The names of the heads of ington county was first settled by a tlement cal'cd Moab on Grand river The cities of Salt Lake ranch on Ash creek in 1852 the cotton these families he gives as follows: Provo Manti and Parowan Ogden (now Colorado river) In May of th were Phineas R region of the country was settled by Wrighl Cyrus Call chartered by act of the general as- Jacob same 1855 in and year a colony under Thomas Hamblin by Joseph Judson Tolman Sam Mecham Orson sembly of Deseret in 1851 Home a) Hcbfivllle in 185LRoherl S Smith founded- - Fort- - Limhi on a Brafett and the znothar of EliB Kel- Bqx Etder settled in D Covington and 33 others founded tributary of the Salmon river This sey Mrs Kelsey had no family with March 1851 county by Simeon Carter and Washington in 1857 and Joshua P latter settlement was the first Anglo-Saxo-n her at the time Tooele valley was others In September of the same Willis located Toquerville in 1858 in what is now settlement named after the tule (pronounced year Joseph L Heywood and a few Early in 1853 Summit county was Idaho tooly) a Mexican Indian name for families began a settlement on the settled by Samuel Snyder who had Morgan county was settled by Jedein q variety of bullrush abundant site of Nephi Juab county previously built sawmills in Parley’s diah M Grant and Thomas Thurston tfiat locality It was misspelled present Millard was settled by An- park m the spring of 1856 the son Call county "Tooele" by Thomas Bullock and 30 families in the fall In January 1854 the legislature Wasatch county was settled by som pioneer clerk in a public document of 1851 Chalk creek in the Pauvan counties of Summit Green 20 men from Spanish Fork and Amercreated the of that period and the orthography was the of scene the settle- River and Carson Green River coun- ican Fork (and a few from other valley has since remained unchanged ment and here in October 1851 an ty was ‘settled by a company under places) in 1859 Mre Settlements official commission laiH out and lo- Orson Hyde insNovember 1853 The It is estimated that previous to the The year 1850 saw many new set- cated a city The territorial legisla- expedition consisted of two paffiel' deihlse of Resident Brigham YbUflg tlements coming into existence ture had located the capital of Utah one from Salt Lake City and one from in August 1877 nearly 300 settlewere Centerville in that section of country and had Utah valley John Nebeker and Isaac ments of Latter-dathese Among Saints had sprung Farmington and Kaysville in Davis named ‘it Fillmore and the county Bullock were among the leaders of up under his direction in the Rocky in Slaterville North Millard honor of President Mil- this movement The company found- mountains including all the principal county Lynne Easton Harrisville and lard Fillmore The exact location ed Fort Supply on Smith's fork ofiscttlements of Utah and many otheis Ogden Mound Fort in Weber roimtv and was left tn a commusion to be np- - Green river About this time alec' in Idaho Wyoming Colorado bv Gmernor Young New Mexico arid California Spanish Fork ThePresideht Brigham Young purch-'rdvaSpring! die Pafon k Lehi American Foi Pleasant Grove corrmi--oneichosen were Oron Fort Brldger whnh was the frstThrsr settlements had been paoper’y r and Almne in Utah county etc 'Pratt Albert Cardiiigton Jesse W property on the Green slope organized into stakes of Zion bishops ' Another colonizing scheme of This part onwards etc William C Staines and Josephowned by the Saints L was not made by an organized company John Rowberry who is popularly regarded as the pioneer of Tooele county went there from Salt La'ke City in December 1849 his object being to find better grazing land for his stock Several weeks bcfgre PaP tKi ul3QJsgi i i c s ’J’lge Lr His' arrival however a party of men objective point was the valley of the in the employ of Ezra T Benson who Little Salt Lake a spot visited by - n y ’ s rn-p- un-iio- i |