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Show ff t ..-f- ii 1 DESERET NEWS Dangerous Journey: Entering S.L. Valley In 1846 (Before the Mormon pioneer corn ro Silt Like number of olhor parties wont through thi Villey. area. Ona of tham Included Heinrich Lienhard, a Swiss Craftsman, who later bought Haber ,C. ynuno Kimball's tome at Nauvoo, Illinois, and lived therai In IWJ. Here are excerpts from death his 's until ioumal about his tree toward California In a year before the Mormons arrived. The ItM, excerpt bealns as the party descends lower Echo Canyon.) fill 0" W JOURNAL OF HEINRICH LIENHARD (Excerpted from Utah Historical un V This Is By HARRY JONES Note to tourists: Its the big day in Utah . . . honoring the pioneers of our beautiful valley and pioneers of .lift moon. Our . f which on the north side overhangs the stream, at nearly a right angle.) On August 6 we ventured upon this furious passage, up to this point deddely the wildest we had encountered, if not the most dangerous. We devoted the entire .forenoon and until fully one oclock in the afternoon to the task of getting our four wagons through. In places we unhitched from the wagon all the oxen except the wheel-yokthen we strained at both hind wheels, one drove, the rest steadied the wagon; we then slid rapidly down into the foaming water, hitched the loose oxen again to the wagon and took it directly down the foaming riverbed, full of great boulders, on account of which the wagon quickly lurched from one side to the other; now we had to turn the wheels by the spokes, then again hold back with all the strength we had, lest it sweep upon a low lying rock and smash e, itself to pieces. cn tos If you rtally want tot Dr. "Loaf Sacrati of Reducing," and with no glmmickito to your Individual ntadi. For Thostetm- cara of tha Salt Laka Cl tv, Utah $4110 coin and lana, wtlohf 17, ''oad V i got (lienhard and his their four wagons through the fearsome narrows at Devils Gate by descending in the bed of the river itself, an undertaking so hazardous that it is not surprising the Donner party decided against it. The alternative, traversing the precipitous mountains bordering the Weber River, was even less attractive. W. W. Allen and R. B. Avery, in The California Gold Book published in San Francisco in 1883, described the tribulations of the Harlan-Youn- g party here: The canyon is scarcely wide enough to accommodate the narrow river which traverses it, and there was no room for roads between its waters and the abrupt banks. In many places great boulders had been rolled by the mountain torrents fellow-travele- POLITICAL SCENE By M. DeMAR TEUSCHER Deseret News Political Editor Next week, the governors of the 13 western states meet in Seattle for the Western Governors Utahs Gov. Calvin Li Rampton will be there as one of 1969 By GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: Does an ingrown whisker continue to grow under the skin? I have one on my cheek and the skin around it seems to Jbe getting hard and swollen. J.B.C. Answer: Yes, such a hair or whisker continues to grow. If it can be grasped with a tweezer, or lifted with a sterile needle, it can be pulled out. A new whisker will grow, but with good luck it will grow out normally and not curl up below the skin surface. In going back for each wagon we had to be very careful lest we lose our footing on the slippery rocks under the water and ourselves be swept down the rapid, foaming torrent. and lodged together, forming an impassable way. Three such obstacles were encountered, and only about a mile a day was averaged for more than a week. The sides of the mountains were covered by a dense growth of willows, never penetrated by white men. Three times spurs of the mountains had to be crossed by rigging the windlass on top, and lifting the wagons almost bodily. The banks were very steep, and covered with loose stones, so that a mountain sheep would have been troubled to keep its feet, much more an ox team drawing a heavily loaded wagon. On the 11th (i.e., 1st?) of August, while hoisting a yoke of oxen and a wagon up Weber mountain, the rope broke near the wind lass. As many men as could surround the wagon were helping all they could by lifting at the wheels and sides. The footing was untenable and before the rope could be tied to anything, ... Rampton To Head Governors ? Round Worm? answering. The point is that round worms can infect adults, too, and you may have a carrier in the household. Stool examination, seeking round worm eggs, should be made. Any carrier in the home must be treated; otherwise continued infection is going to be a problem. Round worm infection can cause cough, rash, anemia, poor appetite, and even pneumonia. However, now that you have the trouble identified, you should see rather prompt improvement in your little girls health. It may take a week or more, with perhaps more than .one course of medicine to rid the system of the parasite. Once it is gone, health and appetite should improve rapidly, including correction of anemia that is, the iron deficiency. Deseret Newt stilt artist ..." Get Case Of nary temperatures, it can remain a potential hazard for quite some time lurking, perhaps, in the carpeting. Whether the little girl managed to get an egg on her fingers and thus swallowed it or whether it was in infected food is a question that you have little chance of Drawing by Reed McGregor, ". . . down the foaming riverbed, full of great boulders, on account of which the wagon quickly lurched from one side to the other; now we had to turn the wheels by the spokes, then again to hold back with all the strength we had, lest it sweep upon a low lying rock and smash itself to pieces ' How Did Baby Dear Dr. Thosteson: Please write about round worms. My baby girl, 22 months old, had a terrible fever accompanied by an attack of vomiting, and coughing and sneezing, and she finally passed a long round worm. Do these worms cause any type of skin rash and itching? The doctor said she was aso low in iron, but is giving her medicine and said her appetite and weight would improve. How long does it take for the worms to leave? Do adults have them? Since she has been getting medicine, her rash seems to be getting better. Mrs. B. Answer: Consider yourself fortunate to have discovered the worm; treatments will take care of the situation. The question, however, is where she got the worm. It means that she swal-- . lowed a round worm egg and it hatched. Since the egg is quite resistant to ordi- Utah entered pioneers 122 the valley years ago on this (lay, so you see weve been having parades on July 24 for years . . . long before the splashdown. YOUR HEALTH You ei Our Day! map-maker- Thostaaon's tooktat, frHt yog (aval bast aultad a copy, write to Or. New, F. 0. Box eneloelnt OS cant In envetooa. MAM JONES Tourists: Quarterly) After proceeding for perhaps 12 miles through various windings the ravine opened suddenly before us upon a valley with a beautiful little river of clear water flowing through it. This stream was known as the Weber River; it flows through a rather pretty little valley in a northeasterly (northwesterly) direction at the southeasterly foot of the high Wasatch Mountains, which this valley enters from the Salt Lake. We followed down the windings of the little river, past high hill promontories which often looked like castle ruins. On the 3rd of August as we were making our way down along the riVer in a northerly (northwesterly) direction, and after we had traveled about five miles, we encountered Captain Hastings, who had returned to meet us. By his advice we halted here. He was of the opinion that we, like all the companies who had gone in advance of us, were taking the wrong road. He had advised the first companies that on arriving at the Weber River they should turn to the left which would bring them by a shorter route to the Salt Lake; this advice they had not followed, but by good luck they had been able to make their way down the river. We thereupon turned our wagons around and went back about two miles, where we encamped. This day for a while was overcast, with a little rain, after which we again had warm sunshine. , On the 4th we remained in camp. A few of the company endeavored to seek cut a better route but returned to camp without having effected their object. On August 5 we again set out to bad places of the where the Weber River commence. Kyburz, the Barbers, and we stopped and encamped, while the other part of our company made the passage of the dreaded places without any particular difficulty. Instead of flowing to the north (northwest) as hitherto, the Weber River here had taken a westerly course; the worst place, properly speaking, was five miles long. The Weber River had broken through the steep, high Wasatch Mountains; it was a deep cleft through which the waters foamed and roared over the rocks. (The lower canyon of the Weber, below Morgan Valley, was termed a Devbad canyon by early ils Gate was described by Lt. E. G. Beckwith on April 5, 1854, as a point at which "the nver is narrowed to one half its usual width, having cut a passage 20 or 30 feet in depth through the solid rock, 5 NEWS, Thursday, July 24, 1969 freeze in popularity occurs, the post of chairman usually goes to the prevoius years vice chairman. Chairman of the 1969 conference is Gov. Daniel J. Evans of Washington, a Republican. Rampton is vice chairman. Should tradition .be followed, and there is no reason to expect it will not be, Utah will then host the 1970 conference of governors for only the second time in the past two decades. Republican Gov. George D. Clyde hosted the 1961 Conferer.ce. three Democrats in the chief executive ranks. When this years conference ends, however, the odds are good that will be Rampton the new chairman Mr. Teusobec of the conference, a of no little post prestige and considerable responsibility. However, the Utahn will not be on hand to accept his expected honor. There is also a better than average chance that, before his second term ends in 1972, Rampton may have the opportunity of being chairman of the National Governors Conference. This post will be open to a Democrat in 1971, and Utahs chief executive may well be a leading contender for the job. Reports from Idaho indicate that Gov. chairman is named on Thursday at the final business' session 0 the four-da- y meeting of governors. Rampton leaves Salt Lake City on that date for a European tour which will keep him abroad until Aug. 13. This means he will leave Seattle on Wednesday. The - Western conference. new Don Samuelson, a first-terRepublican, may face primary opposition from within his own party in 1970, when he is expected to seek a second term. At this time, speculation over a possible Samuelson opponent seems to be centering on Eldon W. (Dick) Smith, a former state senator who is now a mem Under regulations of the Western GovConference, the chairmanship alternates between political parties. And, unless a defeat at the polls or a sudden ernors ber of the State Board of Education and the University Board of Regents. Smith, a Rexburg dry farmer and political leader, tangled openly with Samuelson over education appropriations during the past Legislature and, according to reports, has been taking some surveys across the state aimed at uncovering his support potential should he decide to challenge Samuelson for the GOP nomination. Another prominent Republican mentioned as a possible gubernatorial aspirant is LL Gov. Jack Murphy. But the thinking in the Gem State seems tc be that if Smith takes on Samuelson, Murphy will stay out of the battle. Idaho Democrats, who harbor fond hopes of ending their long drought at the State House level, are looking for an attractive candidate. Party scrutiny at this time appears to one be focused on two state senators a former gubernatorial candidate and a state representative. State Rep. Vernon F. Ravenscroft from Tuttle, out in the Magic Valley area, is being tabbed as a comer by Democratic colleagues. Another possibility is State Sen. John V. Evans of Malad, the minority leader last session. Still in the picture is State Sen. Cecil Andrus of Lewiston, who was the 1968 loser to Samuelson. Documents Belie An Early Peace the men found they must abandon the wagon and oxen to destruction, or be dragged to death themselves. The faithful beasts seemed to comprehend their danger, and held their ground for a few seconds, and were then hurled over a precipice at least 75 feet high, and crushed in a tangled mass with the wagon on the rocks at the bottom of the If you can, you take in should Promised Valley. It'll be one of the highlights of your trip no matter where.' youve been or where you are heading.. Tickets are free, too ! It will fill you in oiir our history . . . save telling it her?, and far more beautifully. Therere a lot of other good stories-abou- t 'iJ- early Utah. For instance, Theodore Roosevelt was well acquainted with the beauty of Utah, scenery. He bathed in the stream which flows under the Rainbow Bridge . . . and that is some canopy for a bathtub! canyon.) After leaving to our right the Weber River, which empties itself not far from this place in the Salt Lake, we proceeded on south about three miles over good wild meadowland, the Wasatch Mountains now on our left, and encamped in a small grassy vale with a sufficiency of good water. The weather was very warm. On the 7th we reached the flat shore of the magnificent Salt Lake, the waters of which were clear as crystal, but as salty as the strongest salt brine. It is an immense expanse of water and presents to the eye in a northeasterly (northwesterly) direction nothing but sky and water. In it there are a few barren islands which have the appearance of having been wholly burnt over. The land extends from the mountains down to the lake in a splendid inclined plane broken only by the fresh water g running down from springs above. The soil is a rich, deep black sand composition (loam) doubtless capable of e producing good crops. The clear, surface of the lake, the warm sunny air, the nearby high mountains, with the beautiful country at their foot, through which we on a fine road were passing, made on my spirits an extraordinary charming impression. The whole day long I felt like singing and whistling; had there been a sirgle family of white men to be found living here, I believe that I would have remained. Oh, how unfortunate that this beautiful country was uninhabited! I did not then foresee that within perhaps two or three weeks of our passing, this solitude would be filled with hundreds of civilized men intending to remain and yet it was so, the Mormons followed on our heels in the vain hope that here in this wilderness they would forever be permitted to live as they pleased. Since then hardly 27 years have passed, and the Mormons undoubtedly have understood for a long time that their cherished dream of independence is coming to an end. On August 9 we continued our journey south, to round the lake in a westerly direction farther on . . . The morning was so delightfully warm and the absolutely clear water so inviting that we soon resolved to take a salt water bath. The beach glistened with the whitish-gra- y sand which covered it, and on the tracks shore we could see the of a bear, notwithstanding which we soon had undressed and were going into the salty water. We had, however, to go out not less than a half mile before the water reached our hips. Even here it was still so transparent that we could see the bottom as if there were no water whatever above it, yet so heavy that we could hardly tread upon the bottom with our feet; it was here quite a trick to stand ever-flowin- sky-blu- a farmer David Broadhead, Nephi way, testified in court that wherft could be raised without irrigation That was back in the 1880s. And b& was indicted for perjury for saying so. What happened to him? He became one of the biggest dryland wheat farmers in the state Utah has given more than one word lul the American way of speaking the Eng-- , lish language. One of them is dugway, coined to designate a road that has been scraped from the side of a mountain. The pioneers were rugged. Down in. Virgin, a small community in southern Utah, they had a flood just about the time they were getting settled. One p? the pioneer women was giving birth right at the peak of the flood. Strong men of the community held the bed above the high water. A beautiful baby girl was .ii born. And the parents named her Salt Lake Valley was irrigated from. City Creek the day before the main body, of pioneers and Brigham Young entered the valley. President Young sent men ahead to soak the hard ground so planting could be done immediately. The pioneers were a lot more strij about Sunday closing than most of the people who govern Utah towns today. Down in Salina, a fellow who ran a custompioneer newspaper had a Sunday er. The subscriber had ridden a wag oh for two days to reach Salina to pay a doN lar for a years dues on the paper. If the newspaper owner kept the man' over until Monday it would cost hiny J1.50. So, he went to Church as usual anil met with the city council members . . . told them the problem. cGultf They decided that the customer around-thfence the the money through drop newspaper office. But the editor couldn't pick up the money until after: the witching hour of midnight. The story goes on to say that the editor sat up to see that no one touched tHfc money lying on the ground. He caught cold in the night air. - e It cost him 33.11 for mineral water the cure of that day,', and lime juice The first oil well ever dug in Utajv was also in July. It was back in 19C7t down in the same valley where Marvelous Flood was born. ... When the pioneers entered the valley;' the western edge of the U.S. was the Missouri River. A year later unde rthp the territory treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalg. i became part of the U.S. o, Have a good stay! . .. While Nixon Cabinet members are talking optimistically about peace, intelligence reports received at the White House indicate that the lull in the fighting la a prelude to new hostilities. These reports state that the first attacks may break out before the end of July. Through its pipelines into Hanoi, the Nixon Administration has learned that the Communists definitely intend to launch another offensive. The South Vietnamese city of Tay Ninh, near the Cam-- 1 bodian border, has been mentioned in captured documents as an early enemy objective., Communist troops havent always been able to carry out the directives of their leaders. Gen. Creighton Abrams, the American commander, has sometimes disrupted supply lines and broken down enemy, organizational infra- structure. Two previous offensives, scheduled for earlier this year, were actually called off because Hanoi leaders realized they couldnt carry out their plans. Despite this ominous intelligence, both Secretary of State Bill Rogers and Secretary of Defense Mel Laird have made optimistic statements about the peace prospects in Vietnam. Their public state- - ments, however, dont square at all with the secret intelligence reports on their desks. 1 t Mr. Pearson gas pipeline explosipns during the last year and a half. Yet it will not be until that one year hence Aug. 12, 1970 the Federal Power Commission will adopt safety standards. At present, there are not even adequate reporting procedures. Present standards are those voluntarily set by the industry. This has so exasperated Sen. Hartke during a recent Senate hearing that he asked Acting Director of the Office of Pipeline Safety William C. Jennings: Couldnt we formulate some type of regulation in the interim . . . (before) more accidents probably will occur? Mr. Jennings: We could do it that 14 MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Jack Anderson way, Senator. , These secret reports on Hanois intentions are considered to be absolutely reliable. They declare firmly that the North Vietnamese intend not only to continue but to step up military operations. In this way, they hope to make the Vietnam war as painiul and unpopular as possible with the American People. SITTING ON VOLCANOES The government is moving with too deliberate a speed in setting up standards for pipeline safety. This is the who view of Sen. Vance Hartke, cities are sittin on little ., volcano- - As a result, 61 persons are dead, two are, missing and 140 have been injured in ft Sen. Hartke: do it that way? You dont propose to Mr. Jennings: There is no question but what we could. Sen. Hartke: Then why wouldn't you do it that way? Mr. Jennings: Its a matter of application of resources. If I had unlimited resources, I would do it immediately. Sen. Hartke: But we authorized $2 million, and you didnt ask for it . . . we (the Senators) can run the government. We are not the administrators. Its up to you. However, there is no indication that the FPC is moving with any more than deliberate speed. h llllllllllUlllllHiHllllllillUIUlillllllilillllllllllllllllllUllllllllinill, BIG TALK still-fres- h By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON Marvelous-Flood- ! even on tiptoe. I confidently believe that one wiio understood only a little of swimming could swim the entire length of the lake without the slightest danger of drowning. For learning to swim, no water in the whole world is so well adapted as the Salt Lake; here, at the mouth of an inflowing fresh water stream where one could choose gradually lighter water, one whole distance back, yes, one could easily swim in water which was hardly more feet deep. than l2 Only a single feature had the swimming in this lake that was not conducive to pleasure; this consisted in the fact that when on? got a little water in ones eye, it occasioned a severe burning pain; and after we reached the shore and dressed ourselves without first washing in unsalted water, being desirous of hastening in, we soon experienced an almost unbearable smarting or itching ever the whole body with an of salt. depsit "The Pioneers had plenty of probft lems 122 years ago, but at leasf finding a place to park wasn't one of them!" Fran phetoe liken ter the Deieret New nelly Birthday feature. ! eoeulit V |