Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-13 | Page 10 | Pioneer Circuit Riders of Northwest Honored

PIONEER CIRCUIT RIDERS OF NORTHWEST HONORED 9 PORTLAND, ure.. Feb. IS rioneei ; circuit rlderp, who were Important )H I, tors in spreading lllwillon in the ojd west, are tg br commemorated lr fl iii,gon by an equestrian statue of fl heroic size, which is to l presented to 1,9 the state by ii. A. Booth, of Bugenc, j j state highway commissioner and for-i m 1 ,j! in, r state senator. The statue will rep-i''m rep-i''m j resent the pioneer type r minister 'll who sered among earl settlers In the j Pacific northwest. 9 I Mr. Booths father. Robert Booth, n , ' was one of the pioneer circuit riders B j ' r the northwest, tie died at his son's home in 1917, aged Dtnely-Mven years. 9 "For many years my father rod- up fl j ' and down th- stat- cndurlnf; hanl- BBBBBBS ships and braving dangers,'' Mr Booth said recently. "There Is scarcely H 3 stream in western IregOn that be has 9 not forded when bridges un- ! 'fl known. Because of nr. memories ot 999 ! him and of the similar devotion to 99H a ' faith and dut displayed by other 99M 9 ' 1 '' circuit riders, J have conceived 99b tribute." 99H a The model of the statue depl ts th 99l ii circuit rider on his rangy, bloddlng 99l horse, wind tugging at his cloak, 99l '.j slouch hat above thp unshorn hair and 99H '4 Bible in hand upon the saddle bow. 9 Governor Ben W. Olcott has been B j j .-isked to name a committee toNclect 't site for the statue, it probably will : ! be given a place on the capilol grounds 1 at Salem Tin- statin will he , oiiipl.-t- H ed within two years,