Show GOING BACKA BACK BACKA A HUNDRED YEARS VEARS Observing tho the one hun hundredth a anniversary ot o the coming ot ol reter Skene Ogden Osden to this region the Daughters ot oC o the the American Revo nevo Revolution lution are to unveil a a tablet to the memory or of o the lint first white to enter Great Salt Lake Valley The date ot or the tho event has been fixed as ac June 14 H That one ono hundred years ago this region was waa a wilderness so BO far removed from the the haunts ot oC otman oman nan man as to be unknown unknown proves Droves that America Is a very young oung countr country compared with the coun conn countries tries of ot Europe Europe or the old nations that burled buried their kings kinga In in the Valley ot of the Nile When Peter Skene Ogden came the Great Salt SaIt Lake valley Indiana were camped around the springe sprin-gs and each ear there wasa was wasa wasa a migration ot of o thousands of ot the as they moved to and from their hunting grounds To- To Today Today To Today day not one Indian native to this district Is alive When the whites settled at Huntsville in the fall fail all or ot each year ear thousands of ot Indians passed through on the trail trait which led over the ridges to the head bead headwaters waters ot o the different IS streams They have hue disappeared With Wit them has gone the old trapper who caught beaver In Ogden river The whole scene has changed cen the stage coach the ox team and the prairie schooner rave ave vanished It Is all aR as a adream adream adream dream which reaches back to ih the misty past The celebrating of o the comingo comIng of Peter Skene Ogden la Is an event worthy ot of much thought and prep preparation It should excite much In Interest terest In the earlier history othe ot of the west and allow alloy of or a wonderful wonder wonderful ful pIa play on the Imagination as the past pact Is brought in review Perhaps no one Is better pre prepared pared to tell the story of ot the past pastin paStin pastin in relation to the trappers and even earlier than Professor ol Levi Le Ed Edgar ar Young who on a trip to Montreal searched the archives ot of that city to get set the record ot of or original documents bearing on the life liCe ot of Ogden He should be in invited to contribute his fund ot of information In order to add Inter Interest est to the celebration lIe He knows the history ot of Utah back even to the days ot of o Escalante as no roan nan does loes and is an authority on the subject Tho The celebration should be mado to embrace every one In who ho desires to do honor to the first trapper to to- to set foot Coot on the soil of o Utah |