The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-24

little southwest of the upper pioneer
camp. 1t was about forty feet long by
twenty weight ENTHUSIASTICALLY large to
accommodate all the members of the
camp.
President Young and others visited the
battalion camp, where Solomon Tindall,
Thomas Richardson and other soldiers
lay very sick. During the day about
twenty Shoshone Indians visited this
camp with several squaWs. Colonel Mark
ham reported that there were three lots
OF land, containing altogether fifty three
acres, already plowed. Two thirds OF a
lot OF thirty-tiye acres was planted witE
buckWheat, corn, oats, ETC.; another lot
OF eight acres with corn, potatoes, beans,
etc., and four acres Of q plOwed lot of
ten acres with garden seeds. About three
acres OF corn was already up about two
inches above ground, and some beans
and potatoes also began to show them
selves. This was the result OF eight days
labor, besides making q road to the tim
Der, hauling and saving timbsr Tor q
boat, making and repairing plows, etc.
Ihlrteen plOWs and three harrOWS or
drags had been working during the week.
/ Sunday, Aug. 1.-The past night was
cold and windy. At 10 O'Clock a. m. the
J Saints assembled for meeting under the
! bowery on the temple lot.
/ 1t was decided that the three companies
should form into one camp and labor
unitedly together; that the officers should
act as a committee TO form corral or
camp, and that this be done on the NOR
row; that the horses and mules be tied
near the camp at night; that the come
| pany build houses instead OF living in
wagons during the coming winter, and
| that they go to work at once to erect
dwellings,; that the houses be built in
/ Gnph form q GtOQl-ada or
tort to keep out the Indians; that the
women and children be treated properly,
and the Indians let entirely alone.
Colonel A. p. lockwood remarked that
a log house. 16x1S feet, would cost $40,
and one of adobes half as much. Captain
Brown was in favor of setting the men to
work building both log and adobe houses,
in order to hasten the work. Captain
| Lewis, Lieutenant Willis and Samuel
Brannan spoke in favor of erecting adobe
houses. The latter remarked that he had
man in California, who, with three
men, would agree to make adobes for
| 30-foot house, build the house and put
family in it in a week. His printing
Office was put up in fourteen days and
paper printed. After some remarks by
| Willard Richards, it was voted to put up
a stockade of adobe houses. Samuel
Gould and James Dunn reported them
selves as lime burners, and Sylvester FL.
Earl, Joel j. Terrill, Ralph Douglas and
Joseph Hancock as brick makers.
Elder Kimball then stated that those
who intended to send OK teams back to
Winter Quarters must be ready to start
them off in q week.
Monday, Aug. 2.-This morning the
wagons all moved up and formed in an
oblong circle between the two creeks 1.-TWO
branches of City creek, little east of
where the upper pioneer camp had been
located If decided tn send Ezra n
Benson, with company of horsemen,
back to meet the next company of immi-
grants. They started about noon.
In the morning Orson Pratt and Elder
Sherwood commenced surveying the city,
beginning with the temple block, but fin
ally concluded to wait until the chain
could De tested by a standard pole, which
had to be brought from the mountains.
In surveying the temple block, forty
acres appeared SO large chat q council was
held TO determine whether or not it would
be wise to reduce it one-half. Ten acres
were finally decided upon Tor the camp
site.
Wednesday, Aug. 4.-William A. King
commenced making a new rOdOmeter,
which he finished on the 18th. This new
machine could tell the distance Travelled
for one thousand miles without keeping
any account. 1t was to be used on the re-
turn trip TO Winter Quarters.
Thursday, Aug. 5.-Jesse G. Little and
others who had returned from an explor-
ing tour to the Utah lake, reported that
! there was a fine country east of that lake
and that the land there was we'll adapted
for cultivation. They also reported that
they were now sure that the stream run
ming a few miles west of the Pioneer camp
(the Jordan) was the Utah outlet, as they
had followed 1t to its junction with the
lake.
Saturday, Aug This morning fifteen
men commenced building a dam in the
creek short distance above the camp, in
order to bring the water around and in
side the camps. After finishing their
w Ork in the afternoon a pleasant little
stream of cold water was flowing on each
side of the wagons all around the camp.
Where the water OverfiOWed the banks of
the bitches the ground soon became SO
soft and miry that cattle would sink a
foot or more in mud.
About noon terrible WhirlWind struck
the camp and did considerable damage
1t whirled chicken high up in the air,
tore some of the tents and wagon covers
and shook the wagons violently.
In the afternoon the twelve walked to
the Temple block to select their lots.
President Young took block east of the
temple, and running southeast, to settle
his friends around him; Heber e. Kim
ball. block north of the temple; 0rson
Pratt, south and running south; MILFORD
Woodruff, block cornering the Temple
block, the southwest corner joining
Orson Pratt's; Amasa NJ. Lyman took a
block forty rods below MILFORD Wood
ruff s; George A. Smith, one joining the
temple on the west, and running due
west.
Monday, Aug. 9.-Samuel Brannan,
Captain James Brown and several others
started for San Francisco. Jesse G. Lit
\ 10 and Ofharc yuor1t with than with no
intention of accompanying them to Fort
Hall. The Twelve had decided on a name
for their location, and a caption for all
letters and documents issued from the
valley, namely, Salt Lake city, Great
Basin, North America.
On this day at o'clock p. m. the wife
of John Steele, one of the battalion, gave