Show Y TWENTY FIVE f IV HEMS OF aleu glenning mm mm INTEREST I 1 0 OA C LL H V A 19 C sc P a 10 91 wa w 11 10 kt SR C aca 9 ro K L C a B jedediah Jed edlah smith in millard possibly few but students ot of past history are familiar with the fact that jedediah smith early trapper explorer and adventurer passed through millard county in 1826 tor for ty one years before the mormon PI sneers set toot foot in salt lake valley jedediah Jed edlah smith was the son of a preacher li carried a bible always in the pocket in his saddle but depend ed more on good shooting and dry powder than on the written word he made rendezvous with other trap pers up north around ogden s hole r jim bridgers or mayhap brown a hole as and ard the move anent of furs dictated and when the urge came to go to california thru millard county he took his route lived oft off the country warded oft off hos tilita it if encountered and turned up in california to he promptly arrest ed ad by the mexicans who wanted too io chuck with those coming from uncle sam we are interested only in that he passed through here and toot hot on his earlier or later history however interesting ft it may be the next entry of importance was in 1861 1851 when john D lee and others came to fillmore on their way south and established fillmore the gunnison Gunn lson massacre captain john W gunnison Gunn lson came to millard county in the tall fall of 1853 a short time after an indian trouble caused by members et of captain hll hil edreth s train at corn creek now kanosh and in a few days gunni son went toward sevier lake to ex alore that interesting body of very salt water the indians indiana who had gone on the warpath were located in camp close to where gunnison Gunn lson went and Mosho chief ef of that party learned of their presence by some ot of the soldiers shooting ducks the next morning gunnison Gunn lson was am bushed and eight persons of his par ty of twelve were murdered muri ered lieu tenant E G beckwith was next in command and in a few days visited the spot with several men from fill more and to a certainty the remains ot of potter the mormon guide were taken to fillmore some claim that gunnison lson a remains were also taken to fellmore but no reliable historian in utah has been able definitely to prove it as fact lieutenant beckwith made a re port which is among the senate doc doe it 11 II kern 1 new mexico and deseret I 1 went to el morro rock near ra mah new mexico and became very interested in photographing an in in spanish there it Is call ed ad inscription rock also of date 1632 a true ol 01 timer indeed and gla glancing nging around the stone I 1 saw ailt lt J 11 simpson R H kern visited and copied these eions I 1 september 17 18 1849 and a little way to t the right R H kern aug 29 1 1851 and of course the simpson lust just north of us are named after simpson R H kern artist at inscription rock tor for the same purpose I 1 was to see and copy the ancient spanish inscriptions linked his hand with fate joined the party ot of captain john W gunnison Gunn lson and rode with his bib artist material direct to his death sixteen miles below the town I 1 had lived in for years fate seto set the cur tain the indians heard their cue and came on the stage lite life is hut a stage and we are actors on it in new mexico in 1851 happy in new things to see new vistas to sketch an artist absorbed in hia his work and two years later below deseret howling bowling coyotes were fighting to claw his bones I 1 slept wide gollu 1 MOM tu 16 att at aks th tati of the spot no ghosts walked the night hell breathed forth no con faglon on this earth I 1 rehearsed the massacre next morning and tho t of kern palette in beckwith a bag gage on the way to leamington leavington Lea to be and another beckwith with an other means to record at kern a last resting place when fate walks keep in doors the only difference it will make you 11 die on a feather bed instead of in the open but not change fate the gunnison massacre has been most excellently written by josiah F gibbs in light and shadows of mormonism gibbs was a gifted writer with a fluent style and in close and friendly touch with the in deans and many years after the a e vent gibbs got old sam to tell of the massacre on promise of no pun ashment the version by gabbs is the best most vivid and accurate of the gunnison massacre that has ever been written the reader is referred to that volume the american legion post no 89 of delta and the local daughters of utah pioneers erected a monument at the site of the massacre and the legion gave gunnison military hoa hox ors gilbert s monograph on lake bonneville we next hear of millard county in the the report of the wheeler sur vey in 1872 who found many tine fine fossils at antelope springs where the camp is now located 1937 howell and gilbert followed grove carl gilbert wrote the monograph LAKE bonneville publication date 1890 for work done by gilbert about 1872 and later colonel wll wil lard young who lately died in salt lake city the first mormon to grad aate from west point he told me went with the wheeler survey in 72 by pack train and averred to the writer that he was in millard county at times during that trip colonel young visited delta when past elgh gilbert devotes many pages to the of millard county in his monograph and gives the geol ogy agy and treats extensively of every physical object in the county con necked in any way with old lake bonneville his ills book is a classic which no student of this county or of the entire area once by lake bonneville should be without his treatment of the craters at fill more leaves nothing unsaid walcott finds great interest in millard gilbert makes no mention of the fossils at antelope springs but does fer tp every locality it if it Is within the waters of the old lake but the wheeler survey got out a report ac ae companied compan led by beautiful plates ex done which so aroused in terest that charles D walcott dl rector of the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution tor for many years visited antelope and searched the area for tos fog sils finding trilobites sponge es as and he found 47 varieties of trilobites the an dent clent marine bug that lived in the shallow waters when the pacific 0 cean was over millard county that was in the very long ago an and so near the dawn of differentiated life that no eye existed only an ridge which grew more and more sensitive to light until it finally gave gave rise in a later geologic era to real eyes of a compound nature not the single lens system of the human eye hearts were sacs that once in a while emptied itself of blood forcing it out in to the outer parts from which it sluggishly trickled back to do the same thing over sensory an jennae existed eggs were laid all life was very primitive now as to the age of that time place two dots on a sheet of paper at some distance apart let one rep resent now and the tho other the time tot tt the dinosaur when coal was a plant that kb h akl upon whatever your time seals may be than then draw another dot HV tal 1 times al a far away beyond the time of ot the he dinosaur backward in time tor for the place of the trilobite some time scales may differ from but all agree that it was immensely back you can have your choice hoice in any number of years from 70 millions years ago to three hun dred and fifty million years ago I 1 prefer the latter so millard county that real really ay dat es from letus let us say 1851 groesback goes back in the record to many many millions of years ago when an arm of the pa ocean was here long long very long before any mammal of any kind was on earth to the days of the new when the years were few and untried say my indian friends in locating the very ancient and it Is as good as we can say it so let it go at that 11 bound trilobite trails in lower camberlin lin in walcott discovered trilobite trails or tracks in the rocks ol 01 the lower cambrian in dome death canyon which I 1 would give much to see few states can boast of mid or low er cambrian we have a meander ing river which is the scientific way of saying old sluggish senile dav ering doddering and wandering all about the terrain like an old person without objective whereas a younger river goes straight at it down ONE and only one channel we have seven old river channels in easy view meandering across the bg bag flat and we ve have old lake bonneville craters before it was here craters while it was here and craters after it had gone we have fossil trilobites fos fog sll all Arc hemedes at leamington leavington Lea fossil camel at fellmore a fossil ancient bl bi son larger even than the breed of now and I 1 hope the recent find of hugh ivie irle will turn out to be another fossil camel at clear lake we have larvae of brine shrimp in an old in dian than party finished tommy hawk a record meaning that the indian laid it at some time in mighty salt water when the bigger lake was drying down to sevier lake it was found near abraham and we have record of indian occupancy here from say 1800 or 1200 years ago down to the time of the white man in other words from 1937 back years lacks interest does the old flata who dares say that A place where fresh water stood feet deep over our post postoffice office tice site where mother nature showed her fiery ways and poured out her heated temper in bursts of fiery passion temp al old gal that she Is at a time after that water during it making it tru ly bile and before it a river old doddering all around the place all that s left of a fresh swift forceful river that cut leamington leavington Lea narrows a thing it couldn coulden t do now in its weakened senile state camels getting a hump on evs eith er way you want to take it and liv ing now though not here the lowly sponge from the spi cules at antel ope down through the ages from tri lobste to man so lowly that it has no ambition for change no ambition tor for betterment no ambition to be some thing else or better the urge of evolution the sponge can say all Is s vanity look at me I 1 persist lecause because I 1 in satisfied and all oth er life says yes and vegetating I 1 d rather be something and improve wen even if it makes my line extinct and thus go the years on the big desert talking a various language to those attuned in receptivity yes the old sevier desert Is chock full ull of interest As this Is written I 1 have bave just accepted an invitation to go to to the craters a fascinating event always never losing its thrill |