Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-07
Mormon" Pathfinders Guests Of Senator Clark

1--WE taught them to labor and when
we traded with them we paid them
fair price for what we bought OF them.
BUILDING or A FORT.
"Tha first work we did was to erect
q bowcry TO protect us from the scorch-
ing rays Of the sun. The heat was very
trying 90 us as We had come from "A
much colder climate. We then sur
yeyed some small garden lots and be-
gan to clear on the ground and plant
corn ana all kinds of vegetables and
succeeded I'm raising considerable gar
den truck the first summer our next
labor was to build q fort and we soon
commenced 10 haul rock and mako
adohles ana 10 explore the mountains
for timber. which was scarce. We
found In one place about 30 miles dis
tant a small body Of timber; there were
20 or so trees that would do TO saw IN
10 lumber We cut down the trees and
howed them into square timber TO save
hauling the bark and waste material.
We had no saw mill therefore we had
20 saw our lumber BY hand with a whip
saw, and I'm this way we made lumber
enough TO cover some ~ our houses 50
that we could i've IN them.
SOME WENT HOME.
"rhc first winter some Of our men
went home TO see their families late in
tho fan but 7 was one OF those who
stayed all winter
"The second year I went on some ex-
plorng trips. sowed one and one-
fourth acres n wheat which yielded so
bushels, also had good crop OF corn
aud vegetables.
no THE LEAD MINES.
I'm the fan Of 1856 | was released
from the Las Vegas mission and called
TO go 10 the lead mines about 30 miles
from Lus Vegas. went there late I'm
the fan and we put mp a furnace and
run ont several tons OF lead The blast
to our furnace was furnished by two
alternating bellows run by mule power
Tho mine soon pinched out; although
there was plenty Of float ore We We're
unable to discover another good lead.
After prospecting some time we
started home and | arrived at my home
In Parowan I'm March, 1851
ANOTHER MANS NARRATIVE.
Another view OF this same event Is
Interestingly given by James A Bean,
who was also "a member Of the party.
He gives the following facts,
81 came To Utah IN lSiS, I'm lS49 |
moved tO Provo and lived there most Of
the time until 1855, when / was called
20 20 to Las Vegas.
con May 49, | started for Las Vegas,
under the direction Of William Bring
hurst, and by the call Of President
Brigham Young, for the double purpose
Of building a place FOR the rest OF the
travellers and for the civilization Of the
Piede Indians.
I'VE arrived at Las Vegas on the 18th
day Of June, and went right to work
putting I'm such vegetables as we need
ed to live on. When that was properly
started we built a little fort OF adobies
with which 10 protect ourselves from
Indian depredations.
In 1856 about 80 miles from the fort
we found lead mine OF which / was
one OF the discoveries. The mine is
now called Potosa, and IL owned by
other parties.
In the latter part OF 1856 quite a
number Of us went to work In the mine
under the direction Of n, V. Jones OF
Salt Lake city. When we got two loads
Of the lead out, Lorenzo Roundy and
myself hauled it to Salt Lake, It be-
ing the first run out and taken to that
city, There were about nine tons taken
ont.
ION account Of some misunderstood.
ing with the parties who were down
there the place was broken up March
], 1851 and an returned 10 Utah
CRlSMON'S EXPERIENCES.
OF the work IN San Bernardno, and
at the Chino ranch perhaps as clear
narrative az is eXtaut is that Of
George Crlsmon. who went over by
the Northern trail, and went down the
coast to the port Of Los Angeles, and
from there over TO San Bernardino In
1880. He was I'm san Benardlno when
the Colonists Of the Pratt and Lyman
party arrived I'm 1851, and of the events
Of those days he speaks ms follows;
II did not go to california with the
colony under the charge OF Apostles
Rich and Lyman. but was there and
living on the Chino ranch when the
colony arrived. In 1Si9 my father
Apostle Lyman, and my fathers fam
fly went through TO California on the
north route We went 20 the Mission
Dolores, at that time three miles out
from San Francisco ! don't know II
the plan originated there. or II my
father and Jesse b. Hunter, a CAPTAIN
I'm the Mormon" Battalion. went south
by steamer 20 locate n suitable place
for n colony They had an offer from
the owners of the Chino ranch. and had
The idea of purchasing II in view, The