Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-30

~y-. HE problems of Utah pioneer life
were so varied IN number and
often so heroic IN proportion
that at was no uncommon thing
e,- historical records to produce "A
faulty tale. or 90 fail to give due credit
10 the workers in the first period of toll
Such a fate has been lneted our to
Cant James Brown. founder Of Weber
county and Ogden city, and one OF the
most substantial fighters in the early
day battle with the sage brush Waged
from Logan 70 Parowan, 1t is one of
the privileges of the present generation
to go back over The old Trail, trace out
the footprints of those who passed
along II in the years of lis making, and
place their work ON record, Such a
duty is now being performed by Che
people of ogden. led by Browns de-
scendants. for the founder of the city
and county in which they live,
On Decoration day OF tins year there
Will be dedicated in the Ogden GENE
tery an elaborate monument built of
white bronze. on the shaft Of which
will be set forth in simple sentehces,
the work which Captain Brown per-
formed in bringing the first people
westward. fiehtins The first battles for
the possession OF the country, planting
the first settlement along the Weber
river, and raising the tirst crop Of
wheat uOTIll OF s~hlI 1SlAhe OlN9.
The monument has been secured from
am eastern firm and arrived i'll Ogden
last Thursday It Will be set up in the
Brown burial plot OF the cemetery at
once. and will be formally dedicated ola
Decoration day. ON each of the four
sides Of the monument IL an Inscription
setting forth some phases OF the pio-
neer's labor.
MONUMENT INSCRIPTIONS.
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Sacred TO the memory Of Captain
James Brown. born Sept. 30, 1901, North
Carolina died Sept. 80, 1865, ogden.
Utah. Death Is Eternal Life. why
should we weep
on the face of The plinth are the
words. Captain Brown and his two
sons. Alexander and Jesse enlisted in
the service of the United States In the
Mormon battalion during the war with
Mexico; WAS captain OF company c,
the battalion, in command OF Col. Geo
Cook. OF the u. S, army. He brought
to the valley of the Great salt Lake
$4,000 in gold, which he received from
the government Tor services"
on the right OF the shaft: 'In 1915
Capt. Brown went to what is known as
Weber county and bought the Goodyear
claim from the Weber canyon south 10
the hot springs norths and from the
base of the mountains to the lake, II
miles square, for $4,000 and moved I'd
what is now known as Ogden city
ON the monuments reverse Side Is
an American flag .lnfurled. under which
is placed: Company G. Mormon bat
talfon, discharged Judy 16, 1Sa7, arrived
in the valley OF the Great Salt Lake,
lsa7, moved 10 the Goodyear claim In
IsaS''
on the left: N"Captafn Brown invited
Others to- come and share with him.
He retained only 800 acres, allowing
his fellow colonlsts, in whose inter-
ests as we'll as himself, the claim was
purchased. to- settle In the country
without price or question as to their
rights"
Face of pllnth; captain Brown was
truly the founder of Ogden City and
Weber county, broke the first land,
raised the first grain, etc. and ON am
other plate, Erected by par of his
family and citizens OF ogden and We
Der county May. 1907"
MONUMENT MOVEMENT,
The movement towards securing a
monument for Capt Browns Resting
place in the Ogden cemetery WAS inaus-
urated year ago by his SON Orson r.
Brown. now u colonial leader In Churcf
settlements in Mexico, Members OF the
family look up the suggestion at once
and raised fund which was added II
by citizens OF the county The SECURING
of the monument was placed In th'
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