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Show Pioneers of Mount Pleasant In tlu "Good Old Freighting Days" (Uy N. 8. Nelson) Only a very few of our early plu ueer3 ar0 with us now, but their memory will ever be with us. My first experience in Freighting began in Wyoming In 1 868. We were three weeks crossing the plains from Fort Steel to Salt Like City with Ox Team Now you make it in half a day. I uext began frclghtiag in 1876 from Mount Pleasant to Frisco, lo the mines in Tintic and Stockton', and to Salt Lake City. We were Paid $1.00 per hundred pounds to Frisco and seventy-five cents to. the other camps, and to Salt Lake City. H took two weeks to Frisco and return, re-turn, and about ten days to Salt Lake City. So you can imagine how fast we made money in those happy days of Freighting. Of course you realize real-ize what a wonderful opportunity we had to acc.umul.ite wealth in thos eventful days. But those opportunities oppor-tunities are past, never to return, a-gain. a-gain. We damped in our wagons, cooked our meals at the camp fire, and enjoyed en-joyed it greatly In those days, i never heard any one complain of hard times. The Pioneers were a hardy lot. worked hard and continually, con-tinually, without murmur or discontent. discon-tent. No one without the experience, can Imagine the hardships that were endured. en-dured. We knr,w -nothing ahou automobiles, or piteure shows. noth ill? about what we now ran modem comfort, so we had nothing to b discontented with. We knew noth- menR but hard work, and plenty of it. ,f T,1C" P-v was meager, still we save' ' something for a rainy day. Such was the life of the Pioneer Freighter in Utah. Hardships .unbelievable, was their lot. and it is marvelous j how they survived. But there wai nothing else to do, hence it was done and endured. Our rising generation will exclaim impossible, it could not be done, but it was done, and most of them lived to ripe old age. My friends and Fellow Citizens: In honoring the Pioneers you are showing a commendable spirit and honoring yourself by honoring them. All hail to the Pioneers, and blessings bless-ings to their decendants! |