Show Your Heritage ge and You Editors Editor's note The following Is an excerpt from ManUs Manti s centennial centennial cen cen- tennial publication ong of a Century FIRST WHITE CHILD The population of the colony during the first year was augmented augmented augmented aug aug- by the advent of a dozen dozen dozen doz doz- en or more infants Almeda daughter of Abram and Clarinda Washburn being the first white child born in the valley this event occurring November and Almon son of Cyrenus Cyrenus Cyrenus Cy- Cy renus and Emily Taylor now Patten was the first male child This year when the ground was in condition to receive seed in inthe inthe inthe the spring one team only was able to draw and turn the soil this one belonging to Jezreel and It was June be be- be fore the grass on the hillsides which was plentiful afforded a supply sufficient to strengthen the teams enough for the ar arduous arduous or- or toil toll of breaking new land and this work was only accomplished pUshed by sending an expedition of twelve men on foot to Salt Lake for provisions and teams to perform the work our own wretched animals were to do The parent colony responded responded responded res res- promptly to our call for aid ald WADE THE THESE SEVIER RIVER WITH P. P P. P PRATT PRATTOn On the of November ab about out the same time the teams left for supplies P. P P. P Pratts Pratt's exploring party left Salt Lake to explore southern Ing through Valley Pratt said if the settlers could spare a man he wanted one and in accordance e with his re request request request re- re quest four men were selected j to accompany his party they were John Lowry Jr Sylvester Sylves Sylves- ter Hulet M. M D. D Hamilton and G. G G. G Potter r WHITE MAN BEYOND SAN- SAN PITCH Owing to the non-arrival non of the teams that had been sent back to Salt Lake for supplies nothing having been heard of them until some time in January while the now still held to its own unparalleled depth and but thinly encrusted the camp was electrified by the arrival of a avery avery avery very Ur tired d Indian who brought the startling Intelligence intelligence Intelli intelli- gence that a white man was lying beyond at the foot of the west hills in a nude ex exhausted exhausted exhausted ex- ex hausted and almost dying condition condition condition condi condi- tion a relief party on snow snowshoes snowshoes snowshoes shoes was immediately or organized organized organized or- or and sent across the valley to his rescue he was found in a most precarious plight The crust of the snow had been insufficient to bear his weight and the constant I friction of breaking through had worn his clothing to shreds and thus with bare feet naked 11 limbs completely exhausted and totally snow blind bUnd he was wasl wasi borne to camp by the relief party When sufficiently re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered he explained that DanIel Daniel Dan Dan- iel lel Henrie and his wife with Jerome Bradley and the rest of the returning supply party were imprisoned by the snow at the forks of Salt Creek Canyon Canyon Canyon Can Can- yon unable owing to the depth of the snow to advance or re re- re turn He estimated the snow on the divide vide to be about eight or orten orten orten ten feet on the level and twenty feet in the drafts and hollows OLD SQUAWS The policy of the whites to toward toward toward to- to ward the Indians in accordance accordance accordance accord accord- ance with President Youngs Young's instructions in instructions instructions in- in was strictly one of noninterference but when the Indians on the eve of a temporary temporary tem tern absence and penned up a number of old squaws to die of starvation it was rather more than humanity could endure to look upon Surreptitiously lest It should bring trouble upon the weak settlement some of the women carried food and water to the poor wretched squaws but notwithstandIng notwithstanding notwithstanding not not- withstanding their efforts they perished miserably The writer is certain that they were aged women of their own tribe and not captives |