Show OGDEN'S SITE ONCE MARSHY Pioneers recall Flocks of Waterfowl Where City Jail Stands Days when the tho site of oC Ogden was wasa wasa wasa a marshy ground dotted with Ith ith rule rude settlers eWers cabins were ere recalled with the observance of ot Pioneer day by George ot of 83 cars ars old who ho ho arrived in Utah 18 1860 1820 Comparing dates datE with him was Har Harvey cy Talor Ta br born In Council Bluffs Iowa Oe- Oe October Oc October tober 6 1849 who was a mere In- In In Infant fant nt when brought into the Great Salt Lake Ike valley one day earlier If his Ills companion The first house In the present site ito of ot Ogden said Mr I as built by James Whittaker where the Thomas block now stands just opposite the postoffice pos 1 Tue Tho site was then a large large slough The city hall ball park too was a 11 mire and the settlers were obliged to pull their luckless domestic stock out or of the mud mull Wild ducks and a 11 great t vari variety ty of water CO fowl I used city hall halt park for tor a breeding place and the bos bo s of ot those da das s occasIonally occasionally tried out bows and arrows In hunting the tile ducks for Cor the old muzzle loading guns were valuable powder w was S scarce and bullets had to be cast by hand G BUBBLES UP VP I An adobe homes home was s s put up by b across from the present central fire tire station and nearby stood the Second nard ard school Across the way ay at what Is now the corner of T sixth Twenty sixth enty-sixth street and Grant avenue the Rich Rich- Rich Richardson ardson spring furnished such cold clear water that th settlers came camo for tor fora tora 11 a little distance around to CArry the water to their homes Relating early difficulties Mr Taylor said laId that to reach the old Second ward school from Crom his home at what Is now Twenty seventh Twenty street treet and Washington avenue ho he had to follow the rough trait trail later known as IlS Washington avenue to the Broom corner going w est eat along the side aide of ot the tho slough and then doubling back southward Mr with case ease recalls names and dates in eone with the entry of ot Ben Into Salt Lake Lako In 1860 with the first stage stagecoach stagecoach stagecoach coach to arrive from the east cast He worked on the farm tarm ot of his step step- stepfather stepfather father Albert Allen Alien In Riverdale where the tho stage elage horses were cared for Cor At that time Heber C Kim Kim- Kimball Kimball ball Kirn-ball ball driving a a mule mulo and two white whito horses carried the mall mail from Salt Lake to Brigham Brixham City RESI RESIST INVADERS ADE S In the winter Inter ot of 1857 1851 when Johnsons Johnson's United States forces were blocked at nt the mouth ot of Echo can on and the settlers were piling up heaps ot of rocks along the tho tops ot of the cliffs clites to drive of ott oU the In- In In Invaders aders Mr was as as a mem mom member ber bet of the defensive ranks Both men went south as by the church authorities when Johnson enterEd In the spring of ot 1868 1858 to Payson and Taylor to SpanIsh Fork rork Mr II who was born bom In Chester county count Pennsylvania March 16 1840 remembers playing with Joseph F F Smith Smithson son of ot Hyrum Smith and many a time he says the nephew of ot the prophet was for forced ed to pull pun the peg This took place at Winter Quarters Qu near Omaha in 1846 During his bis earlier years while hile the pioneers were working their way he be was often taken on the lap of ot the prophet Joseph Smith for tor he seemed to be he a 11 ta fa or- or or-ite or Ite among the encamped people 00 |