The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-03-13
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN UTAH
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level ground This he names Rio de Santa Ana.
Looking across the valley from American Fork
river to the Jordan, have difficulty in recog-
nizing the Santa Ana the latter stream.
The record, as given in the journal must fix
| beyond dispute the fact that to the stream. down
which he came when entering the valley he gave
the name of Aquas Calientes. and with this fixed
| there are to the north of this stream or Spanish
| Fork only the rivers mentioned. 1t is to be borne
in mind that in giving the name of river to the
streams he crossed that Escalante derentiates be
tween those carrying sufficient water to be dignfed
by the of river and others having a lesser
quantity. 1t is not to be assumed that he gave
the names of these rivers to some Of the smaller
streams which flow into the valley. In closing his
description of the water available for irrigation
purposes and for the of possible future settle
ment he says that in addition to the rivers already
enumerated. aside from these rivers there are i'll
the plain many pools Of good water and several
fountains which flow down from the mountains ~
"A dc estos hay en- ell plano muchas oios
dc aqua bucna variaS fuentes que bajan dc la
sierra"
While the Spanish words "ojos" and "fuentes"
are properly translated pools and fountains the
latter word, however, only be interpreted
streams considered in the sense i'll which Esca-
lante used it.
If VIC are to assume that Escalante did reach
Utah valley by coming down Provo river and to
which in that case he would have given the name
Aquas Calientes, it is certainly impossible to see
how he could have given the names of THREE streams
located to the northwest of Provo river when only
two exist.
Pitching camp upon Spanish fork. they find
the Indians have burned the grass in order to force
them to leave the valley at and that the In
dams were gathered in hostile attitude in their vii
iage OH American fork. Tired as their horses We're
Escalante at once sends Father Dominique. with
the two Laguna guides aud interpreter to visit the
Indians. by whom they are Hospitality received as
soon as their peaceful mission is made known.
The day following his arrival in tho valley Es-
caante moves his camp to the Indian village on
American Fork, where he spends the day talking to
the Indians, instructiug them and preparing them
for conversion to Christianity. However the prin-
cipa object of his mission is still uppermost in
his mind for on September oath we find in the
journal this entry: 1--WE now determined to pro-
coed OH our journey the following day for the set
Element and post of Monterey" At about 1 o'clock
in the afternoon of September 2jth he said good
Bye to the Lagunas, who treated him with great
kindness and leaving behind, with much regret his
Iaguna guide Sylvester. he again starts OH the
long journey to Monterey, retracing his steps tc
Provo river where he camped for the night
Pushing on the following day he swung to tho
westward of his first camp on Spanish Fork anC
prepared to leave the valley by its southerly end
stopping for the night upon the site of the present
town of Payson.
Taking a southerly course he went out of the
valley of Utah lake, and passing near the present
village of Pondtown, he passed the salt pits from
which the Indians obtained their supply of salt
and to which he gave the suggestive name of Vale
de las Salinas; thence up Salt creek and through
the present towns of Santaquin and York, follow
ing the line of the old Utah Central railway. ant
camped upon the site of the little village of Mono
Here the party visited band OF Indians gave
them some presents and, Escalantc writes i'll hi,
journal. found them as kind and gentle as the
Lake Indians"
Still pursuing a southerly course they pushed
on the following day the ground where
Nephi is now located. near but to the westward OF
Levan. and through Juab still following the line
of the present railroad, to where the road turns