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Show 332 INDIAN DEPEEDATIONS Bean and E. P. Bean. We had to stay to feed the stock. The Utes who were friendly said they would take care of us. We wintered in the valley all right till we run out of salt. We were snowed in and it took three days on horse back to get to Glenwood. UTAH INDIAN WAR VETERANS ORGANISE AT SPRINGVILLE. In the afternoon of July 4, 1893, a few of the veterans of the Black Hawk War, met upon the public square at Springville and talked over the old troubulous war times and it was there agreed to have a re- union of the Black Hawk warriors, their families* and friends, sometime during the ensuing winter. The prime movers in the affair were George Harrison, Edwin Lee, Joseph M. Westwood, Albert Harmer, Francis Beardall and Walter Wheeler. Another meeting was held January 1, 1894, at which in addition to the above named, there were present Thomas A. Brown, Eliel S. Curtis and Samuel Bulk-ley, and it was there arranged to invite all the com-rades of the Black Hawk war residing in the county to meet at the Reynold's hall, January 24th, 1904, for a grand ball and picnic. A local society was organized about the same time called the " Spring-ville Comrades of the Black Hawk War." The first captain was J. M. Westwood and Thomas A. Brown was Adjutant and Quartermaster. From the local Springville organization evolved the state or-ganization, known as the " Utah Indian War Veter-ans Association " under whose auspices the great encampment was held in ( 1900). Joseph M. West- |
