Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-22

Tic lpt,or res d IA at Price, Utah. H.
III thIeu years Oider than horseli aud IL
IN Salt bake Waiting the Jubiioe.
The DOnnor par,y, ~ Wait cy'A
history, CONSISTED a GeOf Dipnsr,
James II, II cd and about eig ty-tlgV
oil err, men, women and cbil1fr L.
company with uthcTs, they let Mo.
? uti late Ia April OF early Ia Ma,
1886, separating west Of South Paib
Un the stream known as Little Sandy.
The DJnner party tn tha later parl Of
July started Tut i0r II IT Bridger.
Mr. RhOdee was tho original lender
OF the party but George Bonner was
olecled captain OF tue company whicA
was hgnoei1fth known as the Bonner
party. There they teTrird four daJ 8
prior to taking the Haslings "oul-Jh"
10 California. THE route whiOh wGs
Just begun TO BIS travelled was by way
Of Bear river, Echo anu We6sr can.
youf, Brbuud the south ehOre OF thu
Great Salt Lake and across the desert
to the Humbold and the Sierhe. Ite
protector was Lanslord W. III astinpe,
a mou taineer ana guide. Win the
pGopIiel0Is OF Fort BrlUger being
Interested in the new road, thty were
dong all in their power TO lnGuce
emigration that way. Mr. Heei states
that some friends OF his who mai pre-.
ceeaed him to California win pnck
animals had left letteIs ioI him witt
MIR. Vatquez, Bsidger's partner, who
advising the company 10 20 by the
way OF Fort Hall anu by no means 10
take the Hastings "out.on", but that
VasQuez, as he learned later had Kept
these letters, thus preventing the party
from being warned. Near tho mouth
OF Echo canyon they found letter
sticking In tine sage-bIush. 1t proved
to be from Hastings who was then
plotting q company from Weber cam
yon. Ii stated TINT II the Bonner
party would send n messenger alter
MIN he would return and guide them
along better way than the Weber
which was represented as boing very
difficult. Accordingly Mr.. Reed and
Two other-Messrs McCutcheD and
Sianton-followed ana overlook Has
stings near Black rOck, at the south end
of the lake. He could not tnen return
but gave Mr.. Reed some information
concerning a "cut-ofi"--still another
from the mouth OF Echo canyon
across the mountains into the salt
Lake valley. The latter then returned
to camp.
The route now taken by this party
was the one followed next season by
the Mormon Pioneers--up East can
yon over the Big anu Little noun
tains and down Emigration canyon
into the valley. The way was extreme
ly difficult and sixteen days were COLI
sumed by the Bonner party In cutting
road through the canyons. Then
came the crossing oil tue western deU-
ert where many OF their cattle gave
out for want OF grass and wafer while
others were lost anu stolen by the Ia.
dians. compelling them ito abandon
some OF their wagons IN the miust OF
the sandy waste. Delayed by these
and other mioiOrlunee the illiatsd
company did not strike the main trail
on the Humboldt until late IN Sep
tomber. BY that time the last CONF
pauies OF the season had pesRed.
Another month brought them to the
loot OF the Truckee Pass Of the SierrAs.
Early SHOWS now came completely
blocking up the way. Some o. the
company killed their cattle and went
into winter quartef9 near Treckee
Lake, but others hoping still to thread
The pass delayed buil0ing their cabins
until heavier SHOWS fell, burying CAL
tie, cabins and ail. Ii was now De.
Cember. Their PROVISIONS were well
nigh exhausted and starvation etareJ
the haplefs emigranis in the face. An
advance party on sD0w-shoes pushed
ahead over the muuntaIns, Drawing
snow md ice and winuy biss.a to OF
tsin relief Tor their tutio ring comIa-
nits. Before reaching New HoiveIla
NOW SAcramentr-several OF the
party died from cold and hunger ana
exhaustion, pnI tho Others, freezing
and starving, were compelled 10 eat
their fleeb.
CaptuiD Suffer, OF Sutter's fort, near
Sacramento, anu others nearer the
coast, on learning OF the terrible fate
impending the snow bound travellers,
fitted out relief parties ana cent them
TO tue rescue. TINS timely action
eaved most OF the sufferers, bur out OF
the original eighty.seven poruadeu
into taking this deGtL-lrail across tue
Basin, thIfIy-nine peIisbed from cold
bnd starvation. The survivors, when
fOunu, mad been suhsistlng for week.
horrible extremit! l-upon the bodies
oil their dead companions. Slch was
the sau fate OF the DOnuer party. The
list one rescued was a GeTmun, WIN
became ferOciOus cAnnibai, was
picked up In April l647.