Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-21

lected. was Father Escalante, after
whom Escalante valley is named and
who made the first maps ever giving
accurate information about the great
basin.
He came to Utah In 1876 from Santa
Fe, and now the Knights of Columbus
are to properly bring his work to re-
cognition, publish Catholic history
of Utah, now being written by Dean
Harris, and every year celebrate the
day of his encampment in Utah valley
For this afternoon celebration Dean
Harris has compiled a paper dealing
with Spanish and French American OK
plorations preceding the landing of the
Pilgrim fathers. 1t goes into detail
on the Escalante and other excursions
from Santa Fe, and would give these
matters still more fully We're all the
data at hand. Dean Harris, however,
has written to the City of Mexico
where the "diario' kept by Ascalante
is preserved, and expects soon TO have
completed copy of II, giving his route
in detail, and his impressions of the
various tribes residing then in the Wa
satch mountains This Is the view Of
FdAutt WHICH VIII bt GIL
corporated IN the Catholic history now
being prepared.
In dealing with the subject for the
knights of Columbus this afternoon
Dean Harris read a paper given below
under the title of "On the Trail of the
Spanish Pioneers An interesting de-
Velopment of Dean Harris search for
the Escalante manuscript will deter
mine to what extent Father Escalaute
mentioned Great Salt lake. The credit
of discovering this body of water IL
generally given to James Bridger
builder of Fort Bridger in eastern
Utah, whose stories about IL We're told
and made of record in ST. Louis. In
1925. Dean Harris claims the honor
of describing II from Indian descrp-
lions for Father Escalante, whose
northernmost point seemed to be the
southern shore of Utah lake. His re-
view of the early explorations follow:
QUEBEC CELEBRATION.
Today in the historic city OF Quebec.
the greatest celebration ever witnessed
i'm America Is now i'm the fun tide OF
its glorious success. The ancient city
is COMMUNICATING the three hun
dredth anniversary of its birth. The
French and English speaking races
OF the earth have sent their distin-
guished men to congratulate the Cam
OF French origin, on the marvellous eX-
pansion of the young dominion Three
hundred years ago that daring ex-
plorer and courtly cayilier, Samuel
Champlain. broke ground ana laid the
foundations of the most romantic and
picturesque city of North America
II is foreign to our subject today TO
follow the intrepid explorer in his
voyage up the magnificent st. Law
renee, in his campaign against the
confederated tribes of i've nations, in
his excursions to the head waters of
the Ottawa TO Lake Ontario and Lake
Chnmplain While the great French
man was carving his way through the
wilderness OF New France, n daring
and adventurous Spaniard Don Juan
de Onate, was terrifying the City OF
Santa Fe, the foundations of which he
laid three years before Champlain's
bark opened the waters OF the st.
Lawrence. Thus 800 years ago, years
before the Pilgrim fathers landed on
Plymouth Rock, Spain and France ent-
cred upon the exploration Of the great
southwest ana northwest of the con-
tlnent OF North America.
WORKED IN DARK.
When studying the histry OF the
explorations of those early times, we
must not forget that these daring ex-
nlorers. priests or soldiers were travel
Ing entirely I'm the dark. Nothing I'm
modern times can approach the ro-
nance 81 the solitary expedition of
that fearless missionary, Father Mar
cos. who in 1899 set out from a Span
fish settlement IN Culiacan, Mexico,
crossed the Mayo ana Yaqui rivers,
struck the head waters OF the San
Pedro OF Arizona and, reaching the
White mountains, pushed on TO tho
Hopi and Zuni towns on the borders
Of New Mexico and Arizona. Not
many years ago the English and AM
erlcan press and platform were loud
and inslstent-and rightly so-in adj
miTation of the courage and daring
initiative of Spoke and Burton. LN-
ingstone and Stanley who let in the
light to darkest Africa But II must
not be lost sight Of, when lnstituting
comparisons between men OF renown,
that the recent explorers OF Africa
had satisfactory knowledge OF the
outlines of the continent. knew the
names and habits of the coast tribes.