Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-09
RELICS OF PIONEERS.
continue 10 Go IuIO Jubilee Head
quarters From all Points.
WANTS TO BE ADDED 70 THE FIRST
William II. Walker says lie Should
be Included Among tho ORR.
ginal Pioneers.

The Utah semi-centennisl commits.
sion continues to receive tender relics
OF pioneer days, tho latest ofrars being
as follows:
Lydia A. Hunt OF Springville has
a bedspread made seventy.seven years
ago in South Carolina, and hatiron
which she brought to Utah In 1S47.
She offers them to the commission for
the relic exhibition.
Mrs. Margaret Smith OF 642 South
Third East street has piece Of the
cane used by willard Richards while
trying to keep the mob back In Garth.
age Jail nj the time OF the Prophet
Joseph and byrum Smith were muir
dered.
Hamilton g, Park OF this city has
the paddock which was used on the
cid Eagle Gate.
Chairman Clawson yesterday re.
seived the following very interesting
communication from William H.
Walker OF Halliday, Salt Lake county:
Denr Sir--I see by the DEsERET
NhWo tuut tht 10 ht6lIUuh
of locating all OF the pioneers. l
claim that my name should by right
be- added to the list OF las pioneers,
making that list 149, for the following
ress0nt: 1 left Nauvoo In the hrst
pioneer company anu Travelled with 1t
until Council Bluffs was reached. l
then enlisted in the Mormon Battalion
anu went as far rs Santa Fe, N. NJ.
From there / was sent back with d
detachment OF sick men to winter at
Pueblo, Colorado. In the spring we
atruck the pioneer trail ut Fort Lara.
mic ana overlook the pioneers nj
Green river. A Few OF the pioneers were
sent back from this point with an
express to meet the fret companies OF
emlgrante. l was one oil that number.
We met tho iiTst company OF emil
grants near Fort Kearney. We were
six days without food o. any kind,
except that ON one dny we hrd a rab.
at, which was DIVIDED among ten
people, and what wild currants and
choke cherries we could gather on the
hanks OF the Platte river. With this
company l met my wife, Olive IL.
Farr Walker, sick In consequence OF
having driven two yoke Of oxen from
Winier Quarters 10 Ihis point. L then
returned with these same pioneers anu
Travelled Ia Captain Daniel spsncer's
company, arriving In Salt Lake valley
on the 18Th u September, lS47. The
only difference between myself and
the Pioneers Ia that l Travelled about
1000 miles further than they did. In
company with one OF those Pioneers,
Aaron f. FarE OF Ogden, won't 10
the canyon, hauled logs, built house,
in the tort, anu with whipsaw msde
the first lumber ever cutin Utah. From
n portion OF that lumber / msue the
three first panel doors made IN Utah.
l also worked a little on the mill erect
cd by Charles Criemon on City Greek
for the purpose Of grinding wheat OF
corn. 1 assisted George Il. Wallace IN
hewiug timoer for President Hebsr q.
Kimball's sswmill ia North canyon in
the emily part Of lS4S, and In the fall OF
lS49 worked forty days at framing on
the first -four mill bulk By Jonn Nefl
on Mil creek. Aaron f. Farr ana
myself built the first log h0uses ever
built south OF Salt Lake City, In Utab,
on Spring creek, Hsllidayburg.
A BIT OF uIsToRY.
Olive IL. Bingham Of Lewisville,
Fremont county, Ida, in announcing
herself to be a pioneer relates an in.