| Show uintah home for daugn daughter ter of jim bridger kansas city an 80 acre I 1 far farm in the uintah reservation utah ha has s been awarded at tile the direction of president roosevelt 5 to mrs virginia hahn of this city jim bridger 0 the famous scout who discovered salt lake mrs lealin haling mother was I 1 a ute indian I 1 I 1 old r residents of utah will have bave no trouble in jini bridger and fort bridger bridgers 1 which was his earl early western home it has bas become tradition to narrate the historic meeting ine eting 1 bridger and Brig brigham hain young in june 1847 in which bridger offered information as to ilia route ahead of the pioneer party and declared that lie he would give 1000 for the firsa I 1 eer ear of corn that would ripen ili iii salt lake valle valley y As to whether lie he disco discovered vere great salt lake there is much doubt doub tand and also a decided disagreement among historians it is probable that lie he did not as it is is now W known that the hunters from fro in the hudson baa v company tind and tile the north amerl ameid I 1 can fur company trapped and hunted through this district iz in the early twenties col john 0 01 fremont Fremon fc passed this way in 1843 comming coin ining to tile the shore oi of the lake tat at little mountain in weber county coti oty and rowing out to F remont Fremon fc LIE d which v lie he named disa anent island but which after aftic r i wai warns ds wits was named in his honor by capt stansbury rethought he thought himself the liila 8 1 I white man inan to see the lake but this was afterwards fou dounn lin to f be an error and bancroft gave the credit to jim jiin bridger mhd played a large part as a 1 finder through this region the story of bridgets bridgers dincov ery cry is that bo was trapping in the bear lake district in 1824 and in order to decide a bet as to the course of the bear river followed I 1 it down io its outlet in the great briny sea he tasted of the waters and found them thein saltier than lie he had bad ever known he stipp supposed sed then bif liei he had e encountered n at an arm arin of the ocean but in 1826 four men explored the lako lake in hi skin boats and reported that it hadano had no outlet bridger wits was one of a group of fa famous trappers w who h 0 lived in this region preceding the utah pioneers one of them a man maii named provost is also credited with discovering great salt lake and the town of ot provo is supposed to be n named after hi him rn utah lake was forin formerly arly named lake ashley another of these trappers while peter skeen ogden of the hudsons Hud sons bay company left his name naine at ogden city captin bonneville after whom was named the great prehistoric sea shore lines are clearly visible on utah mountains came caine to tile the great basin in 1823 bridger and ashley settled in the rocky mountain coun country tryl and ashley gave g ive the names naine to the areen and sweetwater atee rj rivers rs his own name naine sur survives vives in the ashley fork of the greet green river when brighton yo young gutig and his hi s party of pioneers the sweetwater they began to ene encounter punter these early trappers major moses harris garris was nie met t at pacific sp springs ri n gs he told 0 of f a valley where trappers were in in toe the habit of caching their furs to hide them from froin th alie e i indians callin calling g it cache valley and stating that it was under abder the bear river mountains Pe smith was encountered in this region also and lie he told of the soda springs region where lie had lived he advised the com company i to sett settle le in cache mallox I 1 it was on the evening of june 28 1847 that the historic meeting with bridger took place he was on the pie old oregon road and bridger was going from fart bridger to fort Litro jaromie La romie inie his conversation with Pes president ident YO young u im in it which lie tol told d of alie country ahead of the pioneers and the hie land laid to io which they were e directing their course wits was fully recorded by the historian of the P pioneer boneer company and remains remain as an interesting document of earlier history bistor |
