The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-04
NOW ON RIO CRANDE
In Years Gone by, Many No.
table Americans Have
Sojourned There.
BY S. A. KENNER.

! Grande Western. II consists chiefly OF
"A platform and background OF red
sandstone hills. from which have and
are being quarricd building blocks IN
great quantity. But il is not Of these
that the pencil is put in motion TO
speak. but Of locality adjoining on
the east where looms up. at Il distance
of about a mile, a historic stone struc-
! ture, which used to be the only one
| of its kind between Omaha and salt
| Lake City. Indeed, for some years be-
ginning in the middle or latter fiftles
and ending along in the sixties, 1T was
The only building of any consequence.
however constructed. in all that vast
and practically uninhabitcd region. II
was then known as Kimball 8, not KIM
ball S ranch or station.
Mecca for Travellers.
\ more welcome spectacle to the
miles of mountainous and barren
praiyie, with evidences of civil
ized surroundings very few far apart
and very mcagcr. could scarcely have
been presented The house was, and Is
vet. a substantial one. entirely of gray
stone. two stories III height, with barns,
sheds. corrals aud surrounding verdure
suggestive of gardening All the cmi-
grant and freight trains, east or west,
stopped there over night unless there
was too much Of the day left when
they got there: under such circum-
stances they were either too fresh going
or too near their goal coming to Justify
using considerable daylight i'll resting
| UP and making repairs, SO n came TO
pass that Kimball S became a place
which during the pleasant months of
! the wear cnjoYed a panoramic Popula-
ton Of considerable proportions and en-.
braciug all classes aud conditions OF
the human family. which was the means
of spreading its fame from the muddy
Missouri 10 the Scramento. Some of
these people. the things they did and
the motives impelling them ought to
be rescued from The semi oblivion or
! total foreetfulness which would surely
be theirs If this article were not writ
ten.
Not on First Trail.
1t is not 10 he inferred from this
that the trail Of the pioneers led them
| 70 Parlcv S canyon; not by any means,
! They emerged from East canyon to
strike the Wasatch at a point a few
miles farther north. what then became
and has since been known as Emigra-
/ tion CANYON, Parlcys pass having been
discovered and opened for travel a few
years later. While somewhat longer
| route. If made up for that by means oil
a better road and the absence Of the
"Blg mountain n towering elevation
of Emigration canyon the ascent and
descent of which were experiences long
! to be remembered Those who Travelled
by the latter route of course could not
enjoy the distinction of passing Kim.
! BALL for the very good reason that
said place was not 10 existence at such
| times--not TIL after the route was
switched over to Parlev IS, the exact date
of which is not available Just now aud
is not important any way. what
started TO saw was something about
those who did pass that way.
Recalls Old Days
Among the distinguished voyagers OF
the period spoken Of whose advent was
in 1857, accompanied BY a military
command than which none finer ever
went afield. was Albert Sidney John
etou. who in the War of the Rebellion
achieved the unusual distinction OF
licking L. 5, Grant TO standstill and
lost his own life in doing Vt, Just
what their object was out here has
the exception of few brushes WIN
the Indians. the time (two or three
vcars) was spent in idle Information IN
Camp FLOYD Cedar valley, II the OBJ
iect. or ono of the objects. OF the eN-
petition was to harass the Mormons
and keep them in subsection, i was a
broad barren failure. The Mormons
harassed the troops good deal Pc pc,
fore the latter entered Great Salt Lake
valley hv driving off stock. burning
wagons and supplies. which, added to
the excessive InclcmcncY OF the
weather. made things very strenuous
for a while: but once located Ar camp
FLOYD the soldiers and citizens became
mutually helped and TO a, consldcranle
extent friendly. The military bought
all the vegetables. fruit an other good
things to eat which the civilians
brought to the camp and these TOOK
in exchange the coin Of the realm
which AZ that time was wofully scarce
in all parts of Utah The troops pulled
out for the east in the latter part 39l
1860 leaving everything which coulo
not he conveniently Transported III the
hands of the settlers. the consideration
in almost every case being little or
uothing-chictly tho latter.
Horace Greeley 5 prcmsturcly shiDing
pate and rotund visaee made glad the
waste places previously spoken or u
the late summer of 1855 when he hap,
pcued to be in Zion for few days
50, although looking older, and While
not so famous rs in subsequent years
was still enough of celebrity TO com
mand marked attention. Alfred Cum,
ming. governor of the territory, aud
Brigham Young, governor of the Pco'
pie. were conspicuous in the reception
given the great journalist. The print
crs gave him & banquet ut The Globe
restaurant, rather primitive hold
forth with limited accommodations, as
compared with some Of those today
Vet, notwithstanding the remotenes:
from the Injuries which are usually
found on a banquet table | learn that
the typos and their allies set up 4
really ''swcll feed 70 Horace. Among
the items of the menu WAS oyster soup
j which was made from cove oysters al
A l.50 can. Some fourteen years aft
H erward, when Greeley was a candidate
for president of the United states, The
4 Mormon chieftaiu wore Greeley
hat during the campaign, thus giving
i his former guest AL the moral support
I he could, no other kind being available
At the beginning Of the sixties. Just
) as The war dogs were about to be un