Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19

Spanish traders who came from santa re VIA
the Sanpee valley, made their rendezvous FOR
trading Spanish Fork canyon. Ashley's men
made theirs the American FORK 1t Is
thought, and thus the two names.
Only recently is it that fork" has gained
restrictive meaning Of branch canyon. Ash.
ley when he sold out to three subordinates In
1926, dated the bill Of sale, Near the Grand
Lake west of the Rocky Mountains which was
a name feeling towards the one at present ap-
piled to this water. In 1924. Jim Bridger and
a party of Ashley's had named the present
Cache valley, Willow valley" After looting
OF Peter Skeen Ogdens caches of British furs
there in 1926 the valley was re-chrEstened,
Cache valley and in 1895 and 1927, 1t was
the Rocky Mountain Fur companys rendezvous,
replacing the Green river valley as the center
OF its operations.
How to describe Great Salt Lake was evil
IDENTIFY a serious problem in Technology to Cen
eral Ashley illustrated by his extract from
q letter he wrote in 1881. In this way,
he put it lin describing his method OF travelling
through the mountainsl Il have marched parties
of men the whole way from ST. Louis to the
vicinity of the Grand lake which Is situated about
$50 miles down the waters of the Pacific ocean,
in IS days. In the month of March, 1927, ]
fitted party of GO men, mounted a piece OF
artillery, Ca four poundcr) carriage which
was drawn by two mules; the party marched to
or near the Grand lake beyond the Rocky
mountains"
Washington Irving, few years later GS34),
wrots of Captain Bonneville that he has push
ed his enterprises into tracts before but little
known and has brought considerable quanti-
ties OF furs from the region between the Rocky
mountains and the coasts of Monterey and Upper
California, on the Buenaventura and Timpanogos
rivers"
YAMPAH A ROOT.
The Yanpah river like Yainpa snelter, and
the Yanpall Utes all take their from q par
ticular kind of edible root styled by the Indians
'yampaha and a favorite food both for Indians
and for trappers when short of meat. Fremont at
times fell back upon this root for food and has
attested its value.
SOME JOKE NAMES
Sometimes history has played facetlously with
the incidents on which the names of our country
are based 1t has already been noted that the Am
orleans had difficulty with some of the Spanish
names. Such diificulay with Indian name
gives the Muddy valley and Muddy river. which
q disguised populace is just changing to the
Aoapa valley and AIoapa river to rid itself OF its
previous cognomen. The Muddy river is of the
cearest in the country. 1t rises from spring and
flows through hard clay banks into which 10 silt
or dirt finds its way from Of soil dsintegra-
ton Why then the name? The valley of the
Muddy was in it's wild state filed with rnesquit
beans. The Indian word for them moody
Americans picked it up by pronunciation, styled it
Muddy and created name. which like the
.Stinkng water in Wyoming, has had its day.
Walker, tho Indian chief, drew his name
the same source. The writer has Joshua Tefry's
word for 1t that his name was "Ohakar, a strictly
Ute word meaning. yellow Iron"