Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-26
Blacksmith Bellows From an Old
Tube and RaYhide.
KILLING OF JACOB wEArHERBEE.
First PIastertd House in Salt Lake
First Gel braiion, in August,
1S4S = Grizzly Bear Trap,
Money Coinag', Etc.

makes very Interesting feauihB'
/ crossed the plains from Missouri
river to this valley in 1S47. My family,
who accompanied mo. consisted oil my
wife, Melissa ]. Lambsop, daughter OF
Mark and Bu -annah Bigler, and our
infant daughter, Melissa j., who 10
now the wife OF Bishop Albert W.
Davis Of the firm of Davis, Howe d
Co., of this city.
We left the camp Mt Winter Quarters
on the Missouri river June 4tb, nhu
arrived in Salt Like valley September
25ih. ls47. We travelled In Capt. e. IA.
FuiIef's ten, Peregrine Sessions being
the captain OF NIFTY and Daniel Spen'
Ger the captain of one hundred.
4 was the blacksmith of Peregrine
Sessions company OF ffty, which
really consisted Of about sixty wagons.
think 1 passed through most, II
not all, OF the perplexing experiences
and trying circumstances incident TO
my occupation throughout all that
long, dresry anu toileome journey OF
three months and twenty-One days.
had provided myself with bellows OF
my own make, improvised for the
occasion, which 1 carried on plat
form attached to the endgate OF my
wagon. 1t was constructed out of n
headless barrel, or bottomiess luo,
,apering from bottom to top, 81 that
the hoops could be driven down rom
time to time to keep 1t air tight, with
wooden diaphragm and valve In the
middle. To the top and bottom were
attached leather or cowhide espan.
sions, with the necessary air valve,and
bellows, handle, and leather hose
to be Joined to the tuyefe anu
furnace for the blast. 1t was q
complete success In every particular,
although in comparison with the i'm.
provsments OF these days 1t might
present a somewhat ungainly appear-
ance, For small Incidental repairs.
would set my anvil on the ground, dig
pit by the Biue OF II to convenient
depth to stand In, put up my bellows
and 20 to work In Slmoat less time
than 1t takes to tell 1t. But for heavy
work, tire setting and the like. we
would make sn anvil block cut OF
tree stump or the booy Of 1t prepared
and set IN the ground for the pu pose.
On one occasion with the organ Esd
help OF the camp and one or Two
skilled assistants, under my direction,
We measured, cut, welded anu SET
eighty.five tires In one day. This
occurred y short distance west OF old
Fort Laramie, before entering the
Black Hills.
Soon alter our arrival In the valley
company oil Spaniaris came in with q
large band OF will horses. 1 bought
seven beau OF them, aud with half.
broken span of these 1 hauled logs
from Red Butte canyon to Isaac
Chase's saw mill, built on the spring
creek running through what Ia now
Liberty Park. From these logs
obtained lumber Tor the building OF
my house as 1t now stands on the
corner of Fret West and North Tenn.
pie stTeets. Every nail used In con-
sIruction made on my anvil from old
wagon tire iron. L Ia the fret house
built In this city with a plastered
ceiling. l employed Benjamin w.
Rolf to do the carpenter WORK, ana
his brother Gilbert RJlf did The
plasteriug with clay ami sand mortar,
there being no lime at that time.
These were both w0rkmen on the
Temple at Nauvoo. Toe adobes are OF
the old Spanish style, Is inches long,
inches wide and 4 iuohes thick, anu
were made by Jesse b. Martin anu
Israel Evans, two OF the "Battaliou
boys,o and they were laid into the
wails by Jacob Hoftne, also member
OF the Mormon Battalion. The old
house still stands ms when II was BULL,
except that 1t mas had It's third cover
ing OF shingles, the first covering
being OF bosTus. My house was com.
pleted ana l moved into 1t with my
family in the fall OF lS4S.
forged out OF wagon tires the mill
irons for the first seven mills built in
Utah, with the exception OF Isaac
Chase's mill, the irons Of which he
brought With him across the Plains.
also forged lie dies, punches and
in fact ali that pertaiued to the Deseret
mint except tho drop or hammer,
which was forged at the shop OF
Martin IL. Peck.
John Kay cut the dies and coined
the money, William Clayton ana
Thomas Bullock being associated with
him in this work as accountant and
welgher.
Before this was done, DR.. Riohari-
son weighed the gold dust brought
from California by the Battalion boys
and others, into small packages done
up In paper, each package represent
ing from one dollar up to twenty.
which passed curreat TOR money.
mention tnese facts for the reaaoD
that understand the credit OF doing
some OF these things has been errone.
ousiy given to other parties.
There IL one incident which &C.
CURED near the Elk Horn rive. tina,
would make a thrilling though very
brief chapter In the history OF my
life. and pioneer journey, TO which
will only briefly allude, az L do mol
know that any record was ever made
Of IL. was 10 company with Jacob
Weatherbe travelling with an TX
team and wagon from the Il Horn
, toward Winter Quarters. When near
the Papao we W, 70 altacsed,by Indian
stripped to the bare skiD, but armed
with gune, while We were unarmeJ.
Before they couiu shoot We each
grappIed with an antagonist anu II
death struggle ensueJ. My companion
was shot and killed by the SAVAGE,
whils 1 was miraculousiy de.
livered. His body was taken back
to tue ElK Horn and buried near lie
banks. reached the camp H.
safety, though exhausted by excite
ment, fatigue AMI hunger, just before
the report came TO my wife ,tnst had
been slain by indiana, At the me-
meut, however, this word came to hes
was resting IN The wagon under her
care.
Early in the spring Of 1880. Pere
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