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Show Attorney Hart Reviews History Of First Mail Route At Dedication Of Cub River Monument Last Wednesday (Editor's Note: On the ISth day of September, 1940, a monument was unveiled and dedicated at the head of Cub River canyon, marking a spot at or near the point where the Shoshone or Indian trail went over the high mountains and thence down the Bloomington canyon can-yon to the Bear Lake valley. When the services were nearly over and the monument or marker unveiled and dedicated and a speech made by Daniel Taylor, it began to rain and the remainder of the services were concluded at the new courthouse court-house in Preston at 2:30 p. m. of said day. Lyle Shipley sang a few-songs few-songs and the Franklin County chapter of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers conducted the exercises, exer-cises, at which Arthur W. Hart gave a talk in substance as follows) fol-lows) : A markejr was dedicated this forenoon at the head of Cub River canyon in icommemoration of the Shoshone trail that leads over the mountain towards Bear Lake, and in memory of the first postal road in the state of Idaho, and inciden tally marking th point over which the Deseret Telegraph company built its line in the year 1871. Today To-day I have been exceptionally happy hap-py over this event, due probably because I was born in a town called call-ed Bloomington, less than 15 miles from the marker, and the first impressions im-pressions of my childhood and the tales that stirred my fancy are of those mountains, of the Indian trails and the Shoshone Indians, and the primeval forests and the Bloomington Lake, which is only about three miles east, mostly up ward, from the marker, and also the telegraph poles which ran over the mountains to within three and a half miles of Paris and then followed fol-lowed what we called "Telegraph Hollow" to Paris The Shoshone Indians used to come over the mountains from Battle Bat-tle Creek three or four times a year. The year 1S63 was a very important im-portant year as connected with this monument and the people who dwelt here. In that year you will remember that the Civil War between be-tween the North and South was raging with full fury. That was the year -when the Shoshone In dians who dwelt about four miles from here on Battle Creek were salughtered at least a few hundred hun-dred of them. They were the descendants des-cendants who made this trail which is now dedicated as the Shoshone trail. They were the Indians, with their kindred tribes the Bannocks and the Blakfeet, who lived on the south side of the Snake or Shoshone Sho-shone river, and from time immemorial imme-morial probably several hundred years these Indians visited their happy hunting grounds, this valley, val-ley, for trapping and fishing; thence over the great divide to Bear Lake for the same purpose and for bear hunting; thence continuing con-tinuing eastward into th Green River valley, where the buffaloes roamed and the deer and the antelope an-telope played. I have passed over this Indian trail about 50 times, and if you have noticed engineers lay out a road over a steep mountain, moun-tain, it is similar to the trail that the Indians made over the divide, rt was laid out with the greatest care, and accuracy, and sometimes worn down to two or two and a (Continued on page three) ''""(I of Promise, the land that "owed will, milk and honey ' " And so. likcuh-.e, i years to come when people ,;isK ,v nils marker !'ns day dediealed, ihcv will sav "W mil is I he Shoshone trail Why "'is postal road? And what is there '""'c-niiug Ihe telegyaph svslem " '"i! you. daughlers of Ihe pioneers "f I'lah. and your descendants will '"' o'de to mm Colli rr I hem the "iinKs Hint were done hv the 'arly pioneers of this western world. A pioneer, lo my mind, is one who moves forward among the '"''-most in doing things of value and who demonstrates 0 his l'el-iowinen l'el-iowinen that ihings like that can be done. The pioneers of Bear Uiku demonstrated to the world Unit it was possible lo raise and cultivate crops at an altitude of 6.000 feet above sea level. This had never been demonstrated before be-fore in the history of the world, so it is recorded in the history of Ihe Slate of Idaho. Bear Lake itself it-self is 5,900 feet above the level of the sea, ami (hose crops are raised on the outskirts o'f the lake, which are at least 100 feet above the level or the lake. One of the early remembrances of my life was that we went out on some of these fields with two yoke of oxen and if wo had good luck, and lots of it, we were able to plow one acre a day, and of course I personally per-sonally know that crops 'can be cultivated successfully at the altitude al-titude mentioned. There are pioneers, and always will be. There are pioneers in dirfejreut lines in aviation for instance. in-stance. One of your own boys, who lived in this canyon and whose sis. ter is here today, Lieutenant Maughan, demonstrated to the world that it was possible to fly from one ocean to the other from daylight to dusk. Charles A. Lind. bergh, sometime afterward, demonstrated dem-onstrated (hat it was possible to fly from one continent to another in a non-stop flight from America to France. In all these hills and valleys there are pioneers who have demonstrated what could be done with sawmills and grist mills and irrigation systems; but the pioneer pio-neer of all pioneers, the master of masters, demonstrated to the joy of the whole world and answered that age-old question by demonstrating demon-strating that "even though a man be dead yet shall he live again." And these pioneers who came ou! west put their faith in him and thus were enabled to perform the marvelous feats accredited to them. From this valey there were men like Thomas G. Lowe, Woodward, and Buckley, so I am informed who, in the dead of winter, car lied the mail from Franklin to the top of the divide, at the foot of which this monument stands, and from Bear Lake I am told that Joseph C. Rich, a son of Apostle Charles C. Rich, carried the mail in the blizzards of winter on snow shoes to meet the mail carriers from Franklin; and likewise I am told that Bud Thomas, of Bloom-ington, Bloom-ington, did the same thing. We used to call him Bud Thomas, but I am sure that is a nickname. However, How-ever, I can further identify him as being the uncle of the lady, Mrs. Merrill Smith, who unveiled the monument today; and also the uncle un-cle of Daniel Thomas, who dedicated dedi-cated the monument today; and also uncle to the Merrill brothers the big giants of the Rockies. No one will ever know the hazardous haz-ardous undertaking of (Crossing over these mountains in those early ear-ly days . I sometimes have heard the blizzards roar in the mountains above at least an hour before they would reach the valley. : Cutting my remarks short on account ac-count of time, I remember when I was a few years old, running home one day for dinner and there was a sadness in the home. Mother said, "Brother Brigham is dead," and all the people were mourning, and the chifrches were draped in mourning. I never knew until thai time that Brigham had more than one name. We always called him "Brigham." Mother used to call him "Brother Brigham," or she would say "Brigham, Willard and Heber." or "Brigham, Heber and Willard" I don't frcmember which. But while we were eating dinner, I chirped out with the question. "Mother, who will be the next Brigham?", Brig-ham?", and my older brothers and sisters laughed mo out and I fell bad for a long time, but now years have passed by and recently in Preston we have seen the Brigham Young premier, and this will go throughout the slates of the Union, and in about seven years from now now the great -centennial will be held and the achievements of Brigham Young will be heralded everywhere. I am not so sure but what the queslion asked will be asked again by many who read the hislory, only in a different form. They will say w hen they study his great achievements and his colonization coloni-zation and the irrigation system and all the things which be inaugurated, inaug-urated, "When will another man come into the earth like Brigham Young " I W.Hart Talk (Continued from page one) halt feet, having been traveled over so many years. I never supposed that it would ever be filled up, but I learn today that iu places it was rery difficult to find where the old trail once ran. Another event took place in this same year of 1863. That was a bill introduced into the Congress of the United States, proposing that a .certain described district be organized organ-ized into a territory with the name ! oi Montana. It passed the House ofj Representatives, but when it j reached the Senate a Senator from Oregon arose and said, "I think it wuld be much better if we substituted sub-stituted the word "Idaho" for the nrd "Montana," and I propose tat we do so." Tdaho, in the In-fa In-fa tongue, means "shining mountains" moun-tains" and in the English tongue it ns "gem of the mountains," Iwh being about the same. The amendment was adopted and the s'ate so named. That same year to first territorial legislature of Habo met at Lewiston, Idaho; that same year Brigham Young called 1 number of people, even as mis-sionaries mis-sionaries are called today, to settle lne Bear Lake valley, and this al road and this telegraph sys - f and this Indian trail were used , , connect Franklin with Bear Lake. '"the year 1866, Brigadier Gen-fBaiicockw-aa sent west to view military roads and forts. When he arrived in Salt Lake City he made a report to the war department at Washington, in which he said, "Salt Lake City is the great half-way-place on the western continent of America. It is connected by postal roads and telegraph poles to the Paicific Ocean and to the Atlantic Ocean; it runs to southern Utah on the south and through northern Utah, extending into Idaho." When it was erected to Franklin, the oldest old-est town in Idaho, it was and became be-came the oldest telegraph system in the state of Idaho, and in the year 1S71 it was completed from Franklin over the mountains where the marker now stands to Paris, Idaho. A marker is for the purpose of keeping alive and in remembrance of great deeds that were perform ed and great things that were accomplished, ac-complished, so they woutu not be forgotten. This plan of keeping alive events of value to mankind was well known to Adam, who, knowing that a great sacrifice would be made in the meridian of time, advised all the people to make a sacrifice themselves by erecting alters and kniving the fruits of the field and the first-links first-links of their flocks so that they would never forget the great sacrifice sac-rifice that would someday be made a supreme sacrifice. This great plan was also well known to the Prince of Peace, who, after his ascension, as-cension, 'called upon all to remember remem-ber the great event of the sacrifice by a holy sacrament now which the people partake often. The same plan was illustrated in the life of the great warrior, Joshua. He pass, ed through and over the Jordan river with a great display of power pow-er of the Master, and when he had passed over the river dry-shod, th6 waters having rolled back upon themselves so that this could be done, he called upon his wa,rriors to take from th bed of the river rqeks and carry them to a designated desig-nated spot and he said to the peo pie, "In after years, when your children and your children's children chil-dren say to you, 'What is the meaning of this heap of stones ,' then you say to them, 'This is in remembrance of the great power and favor which Heaven bestowed upon us as we walked through (he Jordan river dry shod, entering the |