Show ton ITS FIRST eq PIONEERS PIONEER S sf remines he e following briefs te 6 and historical of our home 4 k V county and community which 14 all so dearly clearly love ale aie from the li li of frank Frari francis cis the versatile A ur ter of news and views in the len standard examiner of july 1939 P organ eorgan Is one of the comm commini uni fea of utah which Is celebrating I 1 fourth of july in a big way fews ez views as speaker of the tane f gave a brief history of morgan bom compiled piled by the utah historical bards ads r survey an earlier tunas times we weber er canyon bufa ift opens into the valley where agan an Js is situated was a much aled led indian highway the sl being visible along the mount sides rhe re dinen following the nath opening in toe thae range hunted salt lake valley gathered salt anade I 1 war Sto om manches anches passed through we canyon to a winter camp in tory cave where they lived buffalo which came down on bi the north that was when the lie ie was much higher than at eisent and was not as salty ii the distant past buffalo cam and n d elephants were in this ren real part of the skeleton of an has been uncovered on the ach land of ogden dating back when lake bonneville was re ling un from it its higher levels riL rather ther escalante in his explore ns was on utah lake in 1776 he have been there on the f first arth of july when the declara n of independence was given to world but he was too far nayed from civilization to be lare iare of that stupendous event at t that time the indians in this thi glon on told of battles with the UX mx As late as 1876 indians on the arp irmath th were in morgan valley alvid tracy when section foreman croydon with a crew of chise encountered warriors in war int slid and feathers who car carried ears with many scalps impaled the braves stopped to gaze aze at e strange section workers one the chinese grew inquisitive and Ls s lifted by the queue high in the 7 as a horseman with a big knife ade erfle a motion as though to scalp n m but was stopped by the chief the near tragedy squelched any arther curiosity which the chinese irth have had as they trembled r their lives general william H ashley with s a trappers was in the morgan antry as early as 1824 later jim adger and peter skene ogden set eli beaver traps along the streams the valley weber river originally was beav river and great salt lake was eaver lake named after pauline 4 ver aver an early trapper in 1846 L W hastings led the arlen emigrants down the weber I 1 ver through the morgan country counti y 1 I 1 i their way to california at the narrows of the river the afons were let down the rocky age ge by ropes thomas thurston roswell stev 15 charles shreeve peterson lerson Pe and isawo sons after the arrival of ie Mormon pioneers left center 11 ibran in the spring of 1865 and es abill q hed themselves at weber city heri hed on february 19 1872 the set erm rit nt became known as peterson morgan county was named in onori of jedediah Jed edlah morgan grant ither of heber J grant who had many of the settlers in the loneer period tb the first county seat waa at weer city and then at LIVI liviston eton lods ads discouraged the pe people ale ot of bleton and they and the tha county t was as mol moved v ed to morgan city in 8 while the union pacific was fin I 1 liln through the valley in 1865 the first school open d in the home of Elizab elizabeth etli couch he teacher in 1867 vast swarms of lers ers destroyed one third ot of the ropa of 0 the farmers today morgan valley Is recognize d as a s one of the garden spots of atah and the people are among the progressive citizens of the tate |