Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-19
/ Utah PIONEER
BACK FROM EUROPE,
y,mobus {. Murdsck Genes Nome
After Long Trip
Abroad.
XAs Been CONE -FOUR MONTHS
,dl, Of Ms Experiences 10 the Old
vo,ld and Relates Anew the story
the Memorable Trip 10 Utah.

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An interesting cruise TO lands be-
.,nd lhe seas has Just been completed
I. ope of INC young old men Of Utah
ia gray but the twinkle has not yet
',ons eve nor has the spring depart"
"a ,,om hIs gait, True TO the condition
A nearly an those who bull, the first
,,n,s, howed the first timber ana
,,n,ed the FIRST crops here IN the Utoh
Assert, Nv II Just as young as he used
"a be, 80 odd years ago.
wh,n a boy Jusl entering his teens o
Nauyco In Illinois, Nymphnn G, MUIR
SDIl befame acquainted with MOI
s wona children playmates who had just
o "y" nom scotland, and Ireland ana
Vance each talking English with a
ss,mrtlyo foreign accent, ana wearing
ps,INcllyo Kinds OF clothes. In NJ boy.
I'M eop0dencta he learned from them az
strange placos from which they had
romo' and of manners ana customs that
s,y, him A desire TO zee the "old coun-
nv
THE TRAIL or VI
sot the drift Of time had another al.
eSton for him TO go, II was westward
Win the driven Saints, VINO were WIZ
,og 10 back their beliefs with u soeri'
o@s Of their lives Ills father died N
NAuyoo and His widowed mother WIN
an older brother and himself took up
ihe trail OF VI, he rlVlnB n yohe or
oxen and Ms mother horse WIN three
sheep Ned Under the nN los OF her wa
eon when once here no engaged IN
me- work VI bulldqG the foundations
Tor what Utah has since become, am
finally In the yellow years OF MS Ne
Ne satisfied the dream OF his earlier
youth, by making long tour OF Eur
tpt,
WENT AWAY IN APRIL
Mr. Murdoch left the state last April,
and after spending the spring IN Eu.
rope returned 10 80 over the tran oi
M ancestors IN America, lie visited
Ms mothers home in massachusetts,
Mo fathers home IN Connecticut, an'
Nj, own birthplace IN New YORK, roaeh-
ng sall Lake today ot the END OF the
M
homo al Charleston, IN Provo canyon
To-day Ne II looking up the approaching
celebration Of the Twcnty.fourth OF
jay, m which ho " greatly Interested
TELLS INTERESTING STORY.
Nr Murdock has an interesting sto'
W 10 tell Of the days when things got
start In Salt Lake valley, lie doea
no, emphasize his part putting at the
close Of each incident, Now remember,
Mr. Reporter 20 write that up, that !
WA, jus, one Of large number and
ma, we all worked and pulled ,ogeth.
q, II ! was making adobies 20 build
N, old folt Brother pnrley Pratt was
ltaAng the young men up into Red
Butte canyon 10 open road 40 We
could gel out tlmbers for the roof, and
,he older folks were planting the apple
etti, and peach pipa they brought
across the plains, 80 they would be get"
,Ing start before the nost spring time
Why even those ~ W. who had cows,
dubbed together and gave all the mix
10 one one day and all 10 another next
Day, 40 each family could make lts own
butter and cheese
We lived, each Of us for all the rest,
and no one for himself alone, Our sick
and AGED were a mutual care for all OF
w. and In THIS way we kept alive and
hung together"
When asked today by the News 10
Tell some Of his recollections OF the
inst pioneer camp Mr., Murdoch said
Well my mother and my brother
Joseph :, Murdoch and myself who
was len Just thirteen years old, came
west after tho first band had moved on,
md arrived hero IN september lN7,
We unhtched our outni at tho Old Fort
Hmre, whore the fort had already
been begun by q party OF pioneers com.
nc N from Santa Fe, Down west OF
We fort towards the Jordan river good
adobe clay was found, and my brother
ana ! Joined the men at work there,
making adobIos for the fort, ana for
ny mothers house. which wo were Try.
l1s 70 build IN ono corner OF the on
closure,
WERE THREE FORTS,
You know, n Nns not one fort, There
were really three, As the first proved
,",malh an addition was built on the
south and then later another on tho
hQf'h each addition having an ems
ullee ~ the middle " It's north or
south edo
AS the squads got timber from Red
bVtle canyon. tho long straight poles
were split ana placed on the walls ia
nlks support Tor a Nat dirt roof, The
Iolfhet poles ana trimmings were laid
we 70 form tho wood pile for tho
mex, winter
WOOD FOR WINTER,
n tho fal my brother and took
mohers team ana went 20 hauling tho
Woo fQr winter on the canyon road
.VNonld otten encounter 10 or le teams
,WkAg together, their drivers coins
%aa ana llepanng tho way for tho
',sWs 70 follow ] guess Red Butte
~yDh FURNISHED W. tho complete wood
''IpN 10Y mat yenr,
now d!d wa winter II on tho old fort
Iya,pl wei ! was only u boy, | 10,
WeenlOV my mother had brought n
unWS W nor wagon and this was 40,
,,m 9ne o' INC rooms Of tho fort and
uVsnu " mn ola lady named Mrs, Os.
so"ger opened tho nrst achool IN Utah
Vyt,g,gN n only the children too small
iva gS,s, ana ! was among them, Late,
,,' mnSfs SCHOOLS opened Tor the larg.
htonnI" 1tp.'N, but this eohoo
hntrwu. '1e oll stove was the FIRST
rr,, ma.0a gave the stove 10 the Dos.
wn.pp " a. and II Ia stll there, IN,
iva .as a mid one, luckily for Us
wy seldom that the snow lald nm
ro,seSI0 nIl Usually L fell on our Nat
Ins'J houses, and then we staid in,
"''' " cleared up outside and
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