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Show II 10flTiii 1 , FIRST CAME TO THIS REGION 'j ' ' " ' J Jim Bridger, One of the Leaders Was Discoverer of the Gnat Salt Lake The First Booster For Salt Lake City and the i Foremost of All the Mountaineers He Preceded i Fremont by 20 Years Came With Gen. Ashley ! Expedition Camped in Cache Valley and ! , Then Proceeded to the Present Site . of Ogden City. ( j . (By O. A. Kennedy) imen Salt Lako City raakesx up her list of patron saints, she should give a prominent place to the name of Jim ". I Bridger. for he was In a measure ro- sponsible for the fact that the capital V Is located where It is. , I. f: It was he, so It Is said, who dls- k : " couragod the first party of Mormon . : ; ; ' ' pioneers from attempting to enter the - valley of the Great Salt Lake by fol- ' lowing down the Weber river and he ' Is said to have advised them to fol- -, low the trail of some California oml- - - grants who had entered the valley ' r by crossing from Echo canyon to Eml- ' gration canyon. j He is said to have told them that : , it would, be impossible to take their '" wagons through that part of Weber (" '. canyon known now as Devil's Gate " 1 and they believed him and followed his advice. Thus Ogden, which had been on the trappers' and hunters' map for 20 years received the first hard knock and Salt Lake City was built on City p Creek instead of being located on the V broad meadows at the junction of the & Ogden river and Weber's Fork. h For there can be no dpubt that If the pioneers had not been discouraged discour-aged from attempting the Web or river riv-er route they would have been so delighted de-lighted with the present location of Ogden that the City of the Saints would have been founded here and the difficulty of getting the wagons through Devil's Gate could have been overcome. So Jim Bridger is responsible, in a degree for two cities being built so close together In the valley of the Great lake when one would have sufficed suf-ficed providing It had been located on the present site of Ogden. Hence when a statue is erected to the memory of Jim Bridger it should be located in Salt Lake City and the Commercial club should inscribe on its base these words: "The Founder of the Boosters' Club." Thus Ogden comes to have a peculiar pe-culiar interest in the career of Jim Bridger for without his Interference Ogden would probably be a city of 100,000 and the tabernacle and temple tem-ple might be located on Lester park and the state., capitol on Nob HIM. James Bridger was born In Richmond, Rich-mond, Va March 17, 1804. Eight years later his parents removed to SL Louis and when" James was thirteen thir-teen die was apprenticed to a blacksmith black-smith and became an export horse shoer. Five years later his name appears in tho list of "100 enterprising young men," whom Genoral W. H. Ashley recruited re-cruited for his famous expedition to "the upper waters of the Missouri. Jim Bridger, blacksmith, aged 18 years, sailed with the first division which left St-Louis in two keel boats, under command iof Major Andrew Henry, April 15, 1S22, and probably the first of his many adventures was the wrecking and sinking of one of the boast Just below Independence, Mo. Ten thousand dollars' worth of goods went to tho bottom of the river-goods that had boon Intended to be exchanged with tho Indians for furs. This loss probably fell heavily on tho ultlmnto consumer for the Indian traders were cheerful pirates, who would not hesitate to relmburso themselves them-selves for the loss of half their stock in trade by simply marking up the price of the other half 100 per cent. Bridger's first experience with the Indians occurred a few weeks later when the Asslniboines swooped down upon the party near Mandan, N. D., and stole all their horses. The expedition ex-pedition got no further than the mouth of the Yellowstone, whore a trading post was built, for the second sec-ond division, under command of General Gen-eral Ashley had trouble with the Arickarees and could get no further up the river than the fortified villages vil-lages of that tribe. Ashley recalled the first division and the next summer Bridger was present and saw real Indian fighting fight-ing when the second attack was made on the Arickaree villages In August of 1823, under direction of Colonel Henry Leavenworth. A few weeks later the expeditlou returned to the post on the Yellowstone, Yellow-stone, which was soon abandoned and the party advanced up the Yellowstone Yellow-stone having frequent brushes with the Indians. At the junction with the Powder river Etleuuo Provost was sent off to tho southwest with a small party to explore the mountains. With him was Bridger and ho probably shared in the honor of the discovery of South Pass. Provost and his party explored the Green River country and spent the winter of 1S24 In Cache Valley, or Hidden valley in Utah, hunting and trapping, and It Is quite possible that their activities extended to the head waters of the Ogden river where beaver were abundant. It was at this time that Bridger discovered the Great Salt Lake. A dispute arose among tho trappers as to tho direction In which tho Bear river flowed after emerging from Cache valley. A bet was made and young Bridger volunteorcd to scttlo it. Alone he set out from camp and explored ex-plored the river, followed down to its junction with the Malnrl, past the present site of Corinne to the point I where It empties Into the lake. Here somewhere near the location of the Duckville clubhouse he had a view of the big lake and stooping to taste of its waters, found they were salty. He returned to the camp in Cache valley and when he told his story some of the trappers insisted that the salty lake was really an arm of the Pacific ocean and that was the form the story took when it was first reported in St. Louis. So at the age of 20 Jim Bridger was already "famous as a scout, trap-uer, trap-uer, hunter, explorer and Indian fighter. fight-er. During the next forty yeare no Important expedition was complete for exploration anywhere between the Rio Grande and tho British possession, pos-session, without Jim Bridger as its guide. " It is probable that Bridger did not again visit the valley of the Great Salt Lake until in 1826, when occurred occur-red the affair between General Ashley Ash-ley and Peter Skene Ogden, the Hudson Hud-son Bay trader, which resulted, so It is claimed, in Ashley securing a large quantity of beaver fur taken by Ogden's men. i In 1830 Bridger was one of the five-partners five-partners who constituted the Rocky Mountain Fur company. Chittenden infills history of this company savs: Fitzpatrick, Sublette and Bridger with a party of over 200 men moved north through the Big Horn basin, crossed the Yellowstone river, and continued In a northwesterly direction direc-tion until they reached tho Missouri river in the vicinity of Great Falls. Turning south they ascended the Missouri Mis-souri to tho Three Forks and then iollowed tho Jefferson Fork to the divide. The expedition was a successful success-ful one, and a large quantity of furs was taken, while the formidable ap-pearnncc ap-pearnncc of the party kept the Black-feet Black-feet from attacking It. "Crossing the divide tho trappers continued their course south for several sev-eral hundred miles and finally reached reach-ed Ogden's Hole on the northeast shore of Great Salt Lake. Here, it is said, they fell in with Peter Skene Ogden, the same Hudson Bay company com-pany trader whom Ashley had relieved re-lieved of his furs five years before. Fitzpatrick proceeded without delay to follow his old leader's example, It not In method, at least in the results obtained. "As the Hudson Bay company did not permit tho use of liquor in the trade, except along the International boundary, Ogden was quite helpless to oppose Fitzpatrick, who, without the slightest scruple, debauched his men with liquor and soon secured the product of a year's hunt for comparatively compara-tively nothing. "After this profitable but discreditable discred-itable stroke of business tho party left Ogden's Hole and crossed the country to the eastward in time to reach tho valley of Powder river before be-fore winter set In." Bridger and his companions In this fall hunt covered a distance of nearly 1200 miles. The Rocky Mountain Fur company com-pany of which Bridger was a member, mem-ber, was dissolved in 1S36 through tho death of Milton Sublette. Prior to that time tho company had purchased pur-chased Ft. Laramie and that became the center of Bridgor's activities for a number of years. In 1832 Bridger was wounded In the back during a fight with Indians by an arrow. The iron head of the arrow remained Imbedded in tho muscles of his back until 1835, when it was extracted by the missionary. Dr.' Marcus Whitman, who was on his way to Orogon. Bridger entered the service of the American Fur company in 1830 and appears to have bedn connected with that company until 1843. Ashley, Sublette and some of the other famous trappers operating out of St. Louis appear to have made Immense fortunes but Bridger was not one of the lucky number. Somo Idea of tho compensation tho trappers received can be hud from a power of attorney dated Wind River, July 13, 1838, and signed by Bridger which authorized William L. Sublette to collect from Pratte, Chouteau it Co. of St. Louis the sum of $3,317.13 for two years' services. About 1841 Bridger appears to have been associated with one Vas-quez Vas-quez 1ft his hunting and trapping expeditions, ex-peditions, and in 1843 he and Vas-quez Vas-quez built a trading post on Black's Fork of the Green River which has ever since retained the name of Fort Bridger. From tho . very beginning Fort Bridger was recognized as the rnosr westerly outpost of civilization. The California emigrants all headed for Fort Bridger. Here they replenished replenish-ed their supplies, got their horses shod, for Jim Bridger was still a blacksmith, and then started on the dash across the deserts to California, There was a good wagon road nil the way from the Missouri river to Fort Bridger and many of tlio Oregon emigrants swung down to the south to rest in the security of Fort Bridger, Bridg-er, returning to the old Oregon trail by traveling down tho Bear river. The location of Fort Bridger was admirable. It commanded the passes in the Uintah range to the south and the Wasatch range togthe west and 3 In course of time the government cb- 1 tablished an army post there. From this point Bridger and the i: hunters who gathered about him went on trapping expeditions to the ' streams in tho Uintahs and as far ' west as the valley of the Great Salt t Lake Here1 tho Utes, Shoshones ana Arapahoes met on common ground J and exchanged- furs for the goods ' which Jim Bridger brought out from ? St. Louis. ' " j) By far the most important event v in the history of FoVt Bridger was the arrival of tho first party of Mor- T mon pioneers on July 7, 1847. They t spent two or three dayB. at the post V, and appear to have received a grmt ? deal of information from Bridger re- if garding tho country to the west, -Bridger met the pioneers some dis- I tance out from the fort, being on his ! way to Fort Laramie. His report to f them of conditions In the Great Salt j Lake Valley was in the main dlscour- f aging and he wns especially Insist- l' ent that they should not attempt to j go down the Weber river. Hence it Salt Lake City is now on the map. r Whitney in his History of Utah ' ,'' (Vol. 1, page 318), thus tLescribos tfie f' place: j "This celebrated post, the second permanent one established on the great ovorland route, consisted of two f adjoining log houses with dirt roofs, surrounding by a stockade of logs 8 i1 feet high. It was built on one of sev. I oral small Islands formed by as many i branches of Black's Fork. These isl- j arids were cov'ered with- excellent ' i grass and had considerable timber, i mostly cottonwood and willow. f "Tho fort, still owned by Bridger ' j and Vasquez, was the abode of a f score of human beings, white men, ) Indian women and half-breed chil- . j; dren, In the vicinity were nine In. dian lodges, where dwelt the fam- ? illes of other trappers and hunters who had also taken squaws for f wives." J In the next few years succeeding i (Continued on page 9) vfl (jossard IJti&LaGS In Front ) " : , 1 You Can Have a r f Gossard Corset at $2.00 .J This newGossard Model here illustrated rep- I resents the greatest corset value we have ever been able to offer our trade. ' ? .While it is a generally adaptable model, it.ljas J. iRfe many features which - make it perfect for the r woman whose figure is i . 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