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Show Spanish Trails Association To Place Two Markers in Ceremonies on Saturday It A . SPEAKER m r. i.iiihi.i.iiiu.ui mil, in niiii) iniu m , l, i I " " WILLIAM R. PALMER Two markers commemorating the 100th anniversary of converting ti e Old Spanish Trail Into a wagon road, will be placed In Iron county on Saturday, May 15. One marker Is to be placed on the old trail cn ;he Lund Highway, and the other one will be placed on Highway 91 near Parowan. Programs for the marker placements will be furnished by the boys of the Aaronic Priesthood. May 15 is the anniversary of the Aaronic Priesthood, and the boys will hold their annual trek in connection con-nection with the marker ceremonies. ceremon-ies. The Cedar City markers will be placed at 1 p. m. and the Parowan one at 3 p. m., making it possible for people to attend both ceremonies. cere-monies. William R. Palmer will give historical his-torical talks relative to the part the Old Spanish Trail played In the settlement set-tlement of this area. In Cedar City the program will consist of commun ity singing under the direction of Reed Barrett, a dedicatory prayer by Moronic. Langford, a brass quartet quar-tet composed of Kendall Jones, Craig Jones Robert Frame and Kent Wood, and George W. Grlmshaw will give the closing prayer A similar program will be glveh at Parowan. According to President William R. Palmer, a student of western history, his-tory, It was in 1848 that men mustered mus-tered out from the Mormon Battalion Bat-talion passed through this valley with one wagon and 135 horse packs. Twenty five men made the trip, captained by Henry G. Boyle. Porter Rockwell and James Shaw served as scouts to the group. On April 12, 1848 the group left San Bernardino, and reached Salt Lake City on June 5, 1848. Computing distances made In the number of days it took to complete the trip, the group woold have been in Iron county on May 15. The group bringing the first wagon wa-gon over the route followed the Old Spanish Trail until they reached reach-ed the North end of Little Salt Lake where they left the trail and followed fol-lowed the trail explored by John C. Fremont tn 1844. The trail made by the group in 1848 later became known as the Southern Immigrant Trail, and Is now known as Highway 91. The Immigrant Trail followed a little more closely, the streams and deviates somewhat In some areas, but Is essentially the same route. The need for the Southern Trail to be opened Into a wagon read waa Boon apparent, far in 1849, 250 wagons went over the trail. Of the 250 wagons, one party had 127 wagons wa-gons and is now known as the Death Valley Party. It was from the wagons wa-gons of this group that much of the ron furnace at Cedar City was obtained. ob-tained. Many of the wagons were abandoned, and scouts from this community went into the desert to search for the unwanted Iron. Markers for the trail are to be a mounted Spanish rider. Not oniy is the Iron county trail to be marked, mark-ed, but it Is expected that during the coming year the entire Spanish Trail will be indicated by having uniform markers placed along that trail. Places to be marked were chosen by a committee In both Parowan and Cedar City. The Cedar City committee com-mittee is headed by Durrell W Cor-ry Cor-ry and the Parowan committee by Hugh L. Adams. Oscar J Hulet U In charge of the programs. |