The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-27

spot where he procured a hundred
packs OF beaver skins for mere
song
"Of the main fact therefore there is
( no room for doubt: but the exact de-
tails Will probably remain unknown
until the world hears from Mr. Ogden
through the records OF the Hudson
Bay company. That Ogden should vol.
unfairly have disposed of his furs at
oil, and particularly at a nominal price
TO an American rival is scarcely cred
lble 10 one who knows anything of
the business methods OF the British
companies"
The loss OF n seasons work does
not seem 10 have daunted Peter Skeen
Ogden. for, according TO accounts. he
later returned 10 his fayorite trapping
grounds on what is now known as
North, Middle and South Fork of the
Ogden river. and where the number
of beavers seems TO have been unlim-
tied He was still representing the
Hudson Bay company and was in
charge Of large party. The ruins Of
Ogden's fort or trading post are still
pointed out just east OF North Ogden
and at the west entrance TO the pass
that leads over TO Liberty, one of tho
villages of Ogden'S Hole"
Meantime General Ashley. with his
ill-goIten gains returned to Missouri.
fitted out more expeditions. made
more money, ran for congress and
married his third wife and in fact he
was otherwise and generally so dis,
gustingly prosperous that, with him in
mind, 1t is hard to keep up our faith
In the doctrine that honesty is the
best policy"
About the year 1880 Ashley sold out
his fur trading equipment 10 firm
composed of several well-known noun
taineers. who at once proceeded to
hunt up their old friend. Peter Skeen
| Ogden
Natural Commercial Center.
Even at that early date the site of
the present Ogden City was recog.
nized as the natural Commercial Cen,
ter of the Intermountain Region"
On Page 299 of Volume 1 are the
details,
"As soon as Smith, Jackson and
| Sublette had left the Wind river rem
devious in August, 1880. the new firm
| organized its campaign for the ensu-
ing autumn, Fraed and Geryais led
party south into the mountains OF
Colorado, and nothing Is known OF
their exact whereabouts until the next
rendezvous.
Fitzpatrick. Sublette and Bridger
! with n party of over two hundred men
moved north through the Big Horn
basin, crossed the Yellowstone river
and continued in a northwesteTly dl
rectIon until they reached tho Mis-
sourI river in the vicinity of the
| Great Falls. Turning south they as
| cended the Missouri to the Three
! Forks and then followed the Jefferson
/ Fork TO the Divide The expedition
was a successful one, and large
/ quantity OF furs was taken. while the
formidable appearance of the party
kept the Blackfeet from attacking It
ogden's Hole.
Crossing the Divide the trappers
/ continued their course south for sew
eral hundred miles. and finally reach
ed Ogden's Hole on the northwest
shore of Great Salt Lake Here. It Is
said. they fell In with Peter Skeen Og,
den, the same Hudson Bay company
trader whom Ashley had relieved OF
his furs five years before.
Fitzpatrick proceeded without de-
lay to follow his old leaders example
If not method at least in the results
I obtained AS the Hudson Bay com
pany did not permit the use of liquor
in the trade. except along the lnterna-
tIonal boundary, ogden was quite help.
less 10 oppose Fitzpatrick. who with
out the slightest scruple, dobauched
his men with liquor and soon secured
/ the product of years hunt for com
paratlvely nothing.
+ After this profitable, but dlscrcdit.
able stroke OF business the party left
Ogden's Hole and crossed the country
d to the eastward in time TO reach the
valley OF Powder river before winter
set In An Idea of the lengthy jour
news which these parties were wont 10
/ make may be had from the present
/ instance In which the distance trav'
eled by Fitzpatrick and his party dur
+ ing their fall hunt could not have been
less than twelve hundred miles"
Thought It the Pacific.
! St. Louis liquor seoms to have cut
a good deal of figure IN Ogden CITY
| d. ulrApA fNtl op NNlo dF'Ss h' NAbNN'
incident reminds one OF some Of the
more recent cases of doping
strangers once so popular IN lower
Twenty-ffth street
Beginning on page 100 OF volume
is the following account }: early ey
plorations;
80 far as indubitable proof goes
the discoverer of the lake is connect
cd with the expeditions of General
William II. Ashley. which ponetrat ID
these regions in 1926. A JarCy al
Ashloy's men were encamDed for the
winter OF lS2i-5 In Cache valley. and
were trapping on the bear river and
It's tributaries. Here a controversy
arose as 10 the course OF Bear river
after 1t left the valley. A wager Wa
laid and James Bridgcr was selected
10 follow the river aud determine the
bet. This he did and soon arrived az
It's outlet in Great Salt Lake last
ing the water he discovered Il to be
salt. and on reporting TO his com
panlons all assumed that it was ar
arm OF the Pacific ocean. But in tho
spring OF 1925 four men In skin boats