Rlaetcth eae till that the streams game, praire chicken and full grouse everywhere. Miles Goodyear was the first white man to build a fort west of the Wasatch Range. The location of Buena Ventura was on the raise of ground between the Sperry Flour Mill and the Weber River, near 29th St. than 30th St. When you look at the Miles Goodyear log cabin on Tabernacle Square, behind the 3rd Ward meethouse, think this is what you should about: As the fur trade trappers showed declined and a the disposition to settle down, the sight of Ogden continued to be a camping place for trappers and Indians. Miles Goodyear, necticut, arrived a native in the of Con- year 1837; he built a cabin here in 1844 or 1845. He was the earliest white settler in Ogden and possibly the first to plant a garden in Utah. Coming from the present state of Kansas with the Whitman party in a of Utah nucleus another Pioneers in around which Camp of Weber County, Sons these names were Joseph EK, Christopherson, Preston T. Jeppson, W. W. Johnson, W. Leonard Knight and Vernal L. Nielson. To these Bro. Nielson added the names of Ernest V. Wall, Laveree Field, Milton J. Thorne, Norton Bowns, and Roy C. Freeman. These men met at the Nielson home at 438 Wash- ington Blvd. on Nov. 19 1947. At ‘this meeting, by secret ballot Vernal Nielson was unanimously elected the president of this new organization, W. Leonard Knight was elected ist vice president, with W. W. Johnson as 2nd vice president, Ernest V. Wall was appointed treasurer, Roy C. Freeman, secretary. After this part of the business was taken care of naturally the question of a name for the camp came up. We thought of the Ben Lomond, Mt. Ogden, Farr Camp and many others and even though . the writer of this article was born and raised in Mexico and can speak the Spanish language, it remained for Bro. W. Leonard Knight to suggest the name BUENA VENTURA. Just as soon as the name was mentioned, everyone said, ‘Per fect, A natural, How was it we had not thought of it before.’ Buena Ventura, (Gggd Venture), was Ogden’s first name. uena Ventura was the name of a mythi- cal river, for which all the mountain men and trappers were looking. This river was thought to flow west and empty into the Pacific Ocean through San Francisco Bay. You can imagine that after Miles Goodyear had traversed this whole western country, and knew all the As for Goodyear, neighbors forty miles away in Salt Lake City made things too crowded for him and he was eager to dispose of his property. The purchase was made direction by of Captain the James under the Mormon Brown the tlers were permitted to possess without payment as much land as they could put under immediate cultivation and in proportion to the size of their family. Goodyear revisited his old home only once thereafter. He went to California, bought a herd of horses, and in 1948 drove them east to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, hoping to sell them at a profit. The market was bad. He turned around and drove them back to California the following year, hitting the gold rush at the right time to market his horses at a handosme profit. On the return trip westward, he stopped off at his old place to celebrate July 4th in approved trapper style. His exploit of driving a herd of horses four thousand miles to find a profitable market _ still be a Buena/}' of the men who are our is a anenee club—we meet | ~ Thursday of the month exin June, July and August, we have an. occasional meet- the wives of the attend. Everyone is invited to join one of the County. Officers Mormon Battalion, who moved his family into the fort and with the aid of his sons planted five bushels of. wheat and cheese made from the milk of the cows and goats purchased from Goodyear give rise to Ogden’s first industry. Other set- to and meetings where members also who is eligible Church of camp corn indeed have a month the Sons but then we have of an untried wagon road as far as a hunter, trapper, a trader until he had gained sufficient experience to open up a Trading Post of his own. To the original cabin, intended for Goodyear, his Indian wife, and their two children, was added a stockade for livestock and other cabins for his partners, one of whom was Jim Baker, a_ noted mountain man. The arrival of the Mormons in 1847 induced him to sell out, claiming he held a Mexican grant — existance of such a grant has never been found. The Mormons probably thought it was worth about $2,000 to establish a clear title to all this Utah region. We meetings are there, = as pioneering Ours every cept when ing. Two alone EN names, to organize the quaintance LL JOHNSON assisted our precious here. members. ay AEP W. In the year, 1948, the then State President of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers, Rulon S. Draney, submitted to Vernal L. Nielson five he proven LD W. 1836, his seed Ventura, by assembling togetherIt |{3 the fine men who have joined. is worth more than the money we will ever spend to make the ac- OY ing planting wheat nh of & us ea Zzeeeseyoaverr? tells 9 History were full of fish, the mountains LD Is In A Name stands. Goodyear died in the Cali-|° fornia gold field in 1849. | Buena Ventura, I ask again just |: what is in a name? The preceeding is just a small portion of the history that the name of our camp suggests. Brigham Young must have thought it a good venture or he would never have purchased it, with the millions of acres of free land in the territory. James Brown | proved it was a good venture by LR PLP But What likely places to settle, phate the place that he would choose would have to be ideal to his way of thinking. One could imagine that he had had the thought in mind for years that when he was tired of exploring and traveling that here would be the place where he would settle down. BPR GPO Ventura THE PIONEER OO Bich 150 Vad — JUNE, 1950 Suit, three -* camps in Weber