| Show LOCAL HISTORY of PIONEER r DAYS PAYS the principals department of tile wellington school ins boon been taking up local history work the following was told by early sott lera lers and written up by miss pearl tidwell of tho the ath grade the tile first white man known in castle t ae valley was a man by the namo name of robidoux an outlaw ile was wag licie in lit Nov november omber 1837 ton tell years before the pioneers came to utah the tile government bad placed a reward of several hundred dollars on oil robidoux doux for the ono one who could find him dead or alive the tile only trace of him was found on a rock where he had written in lit french antoino antoine robidoux doux passed this point nov 13 1837 for the purpose of establishing a trading post at tile junction of the green and white whito rivers the tile milto is now flow price river next canio gunnison who came down the tile gunnison river in lit colorado winch which bears ilia lilb name iio ile grand junction to the grand rive then came west nest und folded green iver nver eleven miles above the tile city I 1 of aicon river and nam named ed some buttes which are called gunnis gulin sn buttes then wont west and in was killed by the tile indians at the sink of t tie to I 1 iver at lest first carbon county belonged to E emory anery and emery to pote aich which was wits settled in 1850 1859 S t aull ty included what that is etow grand car bonstin luan and emedy county in utah and mesa county in ill colorado in 1877 a it call was in made ude on the tile pimple of indianola Indi inola in sanpete coudry to move out and give the Uit indians their homes jeffer jeffor son tidwell was bishop jalc burns rums and 0 0 ro rove e were couric councilors bors of indianola ward thoy they had charge of it band of indians that had joined the mormon church in order to find a place where here all c osuld u I 1 d s settle ottlo together bt gigham young called a committee of men ems tAing t of jefferson 1 fferson elias cox sr john cox ehan cheney jr and llen Jones vs to explore what wha was tion known as castle castlo valley valla they exploded what is now flow ton sin S in rifel and price rivers and anti avide tin mitt I 1 to brigham young just previous to his death iio ile accepted the report and prophesied that if tho the people would move on of I 1 tho tile pi ice river which was known knon as white whito river on tile maps at the time they would bo be prospered and some day they would bo be on one of tile great thoroughfares of the world and tho the country would prove to bo be doiy inviting and wealthy tile first settler sott lerp in emery and carbon wore were the tidwells Tid sells allreds alfreds and ives orange seely was bet set apart at manti to take charge and colonize the cottonwood bior lie ile came over and settled at castle dale later ho lie was wits chosen councilor ailor to the president of emery stake much credit is duo tile air mr orange seeley iio ile is considered by all nil to be the father of the country jefferson Tit tidwell lell and fifteen families were arc called by the church authorities thorit ties les to make a settlement on the pi ice river jefferson and geo franson wore all that came over in los i espouse to the cill call in III the year 1879 jefferson 1 tidwell and W J tidwell and win will averitt and located here they du dug ft celanis and lived in them during tile bum mor iner in the tile fall tardy their grain for the next springs planting wath their provisions in these those c cellars ollars and returned home for the winter in the spring of 1880 when tho tile returned with the intention of planting I 1 tho grain they found that the tile am grain and provision pio vision had been taken iken and they wet e loft of t without grain or provisions pio pi ovis visions tons they went N ent to huntington to find out what nhat had become of their provisions they found that the tile huntington setti had taken them and etro tre boiling the wheat and tilt outing it in lit the tho car 1880 elias cox sr san stilted led from sai sat pete with ith a load of supplies just east of colton what that is anuw known as emmas paik palk lie was nas snowed in buc with the sup plies ho lie bi ought and in with what hat i bh and game the tho settlers s caught thea the Illana managed eil ull until tit spi ing in ill 1880 the sett settlers lerg built what hat ib is now called the tile tidwell canal then tied bauk back to Sati pete whole they until 1883 when n they they found robert 7 r 1 snyders rW IV J hill tom toni zoll zombi 1111 walter barno t Natilio nol calla ballau Ca llau and bon Buc catian continued boxt week according Accor dinc to tho the green river dispatch mike alike smith a au oung ng follow who was brought up from woodside and lodged in tho the cairon county jail to a isalt t the 11 c action 0 of f tho tile district court is a it dangerous nia man to bo be at large smith I 1 is charged with inith amiul ting an old man named davis davisa I 1 with a hat hatchet chot and so badly injuring ing ji his ills victim that his ills life is still it in jeopardy |
