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


er is that the San Bernardino Mormon colonists
were lost in the Mojave desert and upon praying
for water, arose from their prayers to behold the
great Arrowhead Of the San Bernardino noun
tans pointing the way to springs at its base Which
the Saints located upon approaching It.
"From Utahs second pioneer exploring com
pany comes the names of BLACK Rock 1t too
WAS led by Brigham Young, and left the CITY
Creek, upper Pioneer camp, July q, at o. m
heading west across the valley to at the
spring now utilized for the Garfield shelters water
supply. The "sombers color of the lone bascltic cntt
on the lake shore suggested the name as noted
by MILFORD Woodruff
"Te1nple Square," came from the incident Of
Brigham Young's sticking the end of his cane in
to the ground the evening of Wednesday, july
%, and declaring: Here will be the temple of
God"
Farley p. Pratt poet and explorer as well as
hymn writer and missionary, destined to do
much wandering over Utah that its valleys might
be made known to the pioneers, Starting out for
Utah lake to fish in the fall OF 1S47, lie soon left
the fishing to other sportsmen and made his way
west through Cedar valley into Rush valley thence
into Tooele valley and then back to Salt Lake Via
Black Rock, Whether he found these names or
gave them upon entering the valleys he does NOT
state in his journal. He however expresses his
surprises at discovering" the new valleys as if
each was unknown to him until his approach to it.
MARYsvALE's RIGHT NAME
From w. p. Vance Of Lund Nevada, an inter
csng letter has been received protesting against
the name ''Marysvale" for the southern terminus
OF the Rio Grande Western road in Utah: .Quite
lately in the Deseret News he writes Il noticed
request to tho causes of the naming OF
certain valleys, streams, etc. AS am one OF the
remaining IL pioneers you speak of, thought
might make some statements of those carly times
Il arrived in the valley the 22nd of July 1S47
with tho advance company sent on by President
Young under Orson Pratt) Late In tho fall OF
1S49, think it was President Young sent a com
pany of men under Farley p Pratt to explore
the southern part OF the country. We went down
sanpete valley. Just beyond the little settlement
of Manti, then Just starting. struck the Sewer
river. We followed it UP, up UP. Winter and
SHOWS came on, worse and One day as We
Travelled UP think it showed about all day
Just in good time for camping we drove down
into beautiful little valley and It seemed 50
much more pleasant than away UP there in the
wind where the snow bowed around us so hard
that the boys just jumped and shouted around
and made SO much joyful noise. So Brother Parloy
named 1t Merryvale. If understand correctly it
is the place they call Marysvale. II this is so 1t
ought to be altered, you bet There was no Mary
there for it to be called after
10 comply with the wish of this veteran of the
first pioneer camp will someday be an honored
privilege ola Utah historic society. Meanwhile all
that can be done is to set down his record here
where those who care to may preserve his protest
In this same letter Pioneer Vance throws light
upon the reasons for the name of Salt Lake for
this city
president Young said" he writes that aspiring
men,--one of whom he named in particular a tall
ented mun,--would be very likely to come on,
build city somewhere in the west and try, by
giving it some representative to make it APP
pear to be the main city of the country. To cirull-
vent such possibility lie proposed to call our
settlement Great Salt Lake City Great Basin
North America This agreed to- so the city
for years called Great Salt Lake City till
the territorial legislature restricted it down 10
just Salt Lake City. Now on account of the
great rush, time and space has become too limited
to tell the truth and give some things their proper
names, so now instead of calling it a city they
call 1t lake. I'd like to see that stopped"
RESURRECTION CAMP
OF this expedition which Pioneer Vance
mentions to southern Utah lost name given by
Farley P. Pratt is that of Resurrection camp"
communicating an incident in which a snowstorln
arising In the night buried all the sleeping
explorers that when he dug his way out in the
morning and called loudly the others began to ap-
pear from the snowdrfts from resurrection
Parley's Park" near Park City is another re-
membrance of exploring days, which perhaps Ind
an influence upon the naming OF the mining camp
as we'll as the meadow north OF IT, From David
Lewis the veteran trapper, whose narrative has
been printed already in this paper the writer takes
this explanation of how the park happened TO be
discovered.
Il was out In the mountains with Parlev Pratt"
he said, and we were working up through what
was then called Big canyon, and we were well
past the summit. 1t was along in the afternoon
ana Just before the discovery Farley and / parted
we had run across fresh deer tracks HEADING, to-
ward what Is now East canyon ana decided to
follow them while Farley said he woul climb 10
summit on our right, and there would wait
for
pagSed my deer after half an hours trail
ING, ana throwing the most appetizne portions
over my shoulder went back to the mountain TOP
"here Farley had said he would wait 1 did not
ma nm but found rock on which he had rested
ana saw his feetprnt through n fresh snowfall
reading down the other side. started along and
wen down the mountain encountered him lie
ioio me OF a beautiful mountain park he had
discovered OF to our right / told hin, that mona
y 'te Ola mountain trappers had ever known OF
such d park and that was confident IL was n
new discovery therefore said we should call II
taIieSs park And Parley's park it has become
ne GATE was during the winter of 1915 The
i-ist canyon creek where the deer was killed.
iose a tiappcr name when its present title IL.
paced "Bauohmins creek" The indian name for
iatleys canyon was Obit- Ko- Kee- Chez
PIPE SPRINGS MARksMAN
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