The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-01-19
PIONEER SECTION OF THE RECORDER
EARLY DAY HISTORY COMPLIED BY JOHN E REEs

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land sown with wheat, besides which
| several more houses had been built
| in the fort The weather had been
pleasant during the fall. but there vas
now TWO inches OF snow on the
ground"
President Smith Travelled TO UtaL
where ne reported The success OF his
| colony and II was strengthened .n
1886 by more missionaries aud Their
families. but in this year there gHr
an almost entire destruction OF their
crops BY gTasshoppers and the colony
was compelled again to 20 to Utah
TO supply themselves with provisions
seed grain and necessary articles OF
| clothing.
In May 1857. Brigham Young and
strong escort came To pay a visit To
the Saints in Oregon. The account
written OF this visit, says. His Ex.
cellency Governor Young. President
Heber G. klmball. and Daniel Ii
Wells and Elders Orson Hyde and
Franklin II. Richards. with several
Others left Salt Lake City. on Friday
the gath Of April, TO visit the settle
ment on salmon river, To rest their
minds. 10 invigoraIe their bodies. ano
to examine the intermediate coun
try. The organized company compris-
ed ll5 men, p women and s boys.
with i6S horses and mules, 81 wagons
and carriages, and TWO light boats
with decking planks for ferrying."
They arrived at Fort Limhi on MAY
g. meeting was held in the fort on
the 10th al which were present.
| President brigham Young. Elders or
son Hyde. Franklin D. Richards and
Lorenzo Snow, Prests Heber c.
| kimball. Patriarch and President
John Young and Thomas 5. Smith.
together with the congregation of the
1 brethren. Chief SnAgg OF the Lemhis
and Arrapeen chief of the Utahs also
had smoke and a friendly talk with
these friends and visitors Chief
Snagg WAS the uncle OF Chief Ten
doy and was decended from Came
await, chief OF the Lemhis at the time
Captains Lewis and Clark visited
Lemhi valley in 1906
This fort Is a neat stockade and
has large and securely fenced yard
Tor animals, and a small grist mill not
yet finished. though sufficiently so TO
be used. There are two good sized
fields mostly plowed and sown, in
which the crops look promising, con.
sidertng the coolnesS and consequent
red sided salmon are said to be very
plentiful here in their season. They
are fine hayored fish. and average
abOUt two aud an half fest in length
/ a few hammock Indians had pitched
/ their lodges adjacent TO the fort
Sandstone OF an excellent quality for
srindsiones and a very superior chalk
are found few miles dclOW the fort
are found a few miles below the fort
and coal is reported about twenty-five
been examined We left Fort Limhi
at noon OF Wednesday, May 18th. and
4 arrived 10 Salt Lake City May goth
having had a very pleasant trip out
and back, and been absent S3 days.
Soon after Pres. Young's party
left. more farming land was surveyed
at Fort Llmhi, and an addition made
to the fort; and at meeting. II was
decided TO build another fort on the
L first creek 10 the north. This second
fort (where few hl uses subsequent.
i ly were builI and several of the
bretheru spent the following winter
was laid of by Pres. Smith May 29th
1887" This second fort was TO be es
tablished on what is now Kinney
creek. near the II Mile House. where
Lewis and Clark. IN 1906. camDcd
dians
1 "A pretty good crop OF wheat and
other grain was raised in the fall OF
1857. which in fact was the only CROP
OF any consequence raised BY the
brethren while on that mission"
"On the 25th OF February 1885
while several of the brethren was
busily engaged IN moving hay. haul
ing timber. etc. a large party Of Ban
mock and Shoshone Indians (many of
whom lived around the fort. and had
previously been very friendly made
"A sudden break upon the herd and
drove on most of the stock belonging
to the fort, al the same time killing
Geo. Mcbride and James Miller. and
wOunding Pres. Thos. s Smith, Foun
tain Welch, L ". ShurtIin. oliver
Robinson and Andrew Quigiey. A
man named J. H. Powell. Eho came
into the Flathead country with Coy
Stevens surveying party. and waB
afterwards 10 the employ Of persons
under Mr.. Burr, late L. ). surveyor
Il in Utah was With the Indians and H.
sisted them IN plunderinR and klllnE
4 the brethren. Elder Thomas Cofless
one OF the Salmon river missionaries
in describing this Indian outrage
/
! brethren we're al the fort when the
: alarm MAS given that the indians were
: IN the act OF stealing the herd. com
! prisinE the cows and oxen belouEinE
TO the settlers. which we're grazing on
the low hills a short distance eaE'
OF the fort. Immediately q party OF
ten men mine on foot aRd one or
: horse back started out 10 assist the
r herdsrE iQuiEley and RozeD. and were
endeayorinE 20 head on the stock
J y hen Indians 20 the number of Isl
/ or more surrounded them and com
p menced shooting With guns and bow
: and arrUWN The brethren seeing thf
overwhelming number OF the enemy
: soon began TO retreat toward the
] fort. but the Indians tried 20 cut then
+ od. and the brethsTn Were compelled
10 fight their way through the rank
OF the sayages. while the bullets ang
arrows fell thick and fast all arounC
: them. One ball passed through Bro
D Corless hat. another cut on the kno
; OF his nsCktie and a third Erazed hit
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