Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-06-06

( population, there are quite a number
Of u0u.M0rmOns In Fillmore.
Meadow ward embraces al the Saints
residing on Meadow Creek, which u
about eight miles south Of Fillmore.
Nearly all the people live 10 anug
little village. In which the comfortable
aud neat residences are more or less
hid In the miistOf beautiful orchards
with which the place alOunds. TIL
ward, presided over by Bishop HAN
Il. Bennett, und oidChu ch veteran,
contains a population a. $40 souls, or ~
famlli The place was hrat scttieI
in 1857.
la osh wari embraces the town Of
kau0sh anu the A.lcy nov known a.
Petersburg, hu formerly called Corn
Creek, alter the creek 90 which both
places are si'usteI. 10 WA here The ola
Indian chief Kano-n hld mis- fsrm,au
here ia slill remnant OF uis baul
numbering about mss soul., eucnmr d
ON a spflug near the O. no OF tn
mountains about two mies nottheaH
Of the town OF Ktuosb. The old cnlD
himsulf die several ears ago. Tho
prescott Bishop OF Kan -n is JusH
! H1nsiusDn, who succeeded the late a.
! a kimhuli lu 1850. The mcmhrfshIp
VI ur Knu0-h ward h i0S, fepruunttd
/ Ia % { mil,es. The sstuem. o. dalrs
! back 90 1859, when the iif-t " bite luD-
/ pie located permanently uu Corn
Greek. The present town II kauosu,
/ which n twelve miles south OF Fiil.
more, was founded Ia 1903.
Holden, formerly known A. Cedar
/ Springs, IL situated ten milr- uUf'h
Fillmore. Tbis latter cutcrpfsiuW
settlement, over which Anthony
Stephenson presidos as Bishop b. ~
/ nOwned Tor iiH beautiful luCNIDu, llp
excellent ifuit, ST. hRu some rgsidauc.
and ne system of water WORKS. Tue
latter Ia worthy Of special mention.
When tue drought oil 1859 came near
discoufaging The Saints % many other
'r,tlumeuls, the people OF HOlIen went
10 work wilma Will AMI uipui number
of small ringB hushiug uut Of tuc
| ground at different points along tie
base " the bluff, below wuiCn the
town r. located, And ~ this means
| nually brought water into aim lst
every house In the sstilcmenL without
interfering with tho streams or syringe
formerly utilized i0r ifugatin
/ purposes. There are no less than i've
different systems o. pipe, each 81
which supplies number OF families
reading adjacent 10 anu below the re-
spoctiyrfbrings. Holden h'ih was hrt
settled In 1850, now has population
Il 3ii souls, 90 90 families The place
IL named ter tuu late Euiah Hli leu,
q member Of the Norm ia Batallion,
who perisheI in storm betweu n
Round Valley and Holden In tho fall
OF 1858.
soipio,a settlement numbering aJou,
600 souls, Of which 625 souls, or 90
families, are Saints, Possesses the ills.
tlnciion Of belng dramatically situated
Ia Round Valley, twenty-five miles
north Of Fillmore and twenty.thfcr
miles southwest Of Juan, IN Juah
county, the nearest railroad ST.
ton. Round Valley IL ab0dt ten
miles long from north 10 south
with an average width OF nearly hve
uIits. The settlement owes Is exile
tencu 10 a large reservoir lying In an
upper valley about nine miles south o.
the settlement. In thls reservoir OH
the email mountain ttloims isuing
forth from the numerous SIN ~ canyoI
aud springs IL the neighhofho0d N
galht red both winter Rud summer,
aud thvra u " stored until the ifTigt-
ton season commences, when by "a
most dlclous and syatsmalic con.
iol, II Is made 10 water large scope
Of country In the lower valley where
the town II situated. Round valley
was fifsl settled w the spring Of 1850;
the location Of the selt emcut was
change "A 1868 and tn, place named
Sciplo by President Brigham
Young IN 1885. Thomas Yates
l.
Peter Nielsen and w. 1. Hatch arc his
counsel O.. IN mas Mummoti, the
ward clerk, has compiled ana written
one OF the beat anu most complete ward
histories that have had tue pleasure
20 examine IN all my travels ia tnu
settlements OF the Saints.
bennington, thus named after an
English town OF that name, consists Of
n scattered settlement lying along the
SEWER river, At the mouth OF the eau.
yOn through which the river cmerges
into the broad desert valley (ParoWhnl
below. The settlement comprises only
about twenty families, Of wnich 10 Tor
l5l souls) belong 10 the Church. Lars
Nielsen IL the Bishop. This place was
first settld Ia S73aId was part of the
Oak Creek ward until 1858, when II
was organized into separate war;.
10 ia the smallest ward la the MillArd
Stake Of Zion.
Oak Greek, also called Oak City, IA
pleasantly situated GU small uut
beautiful mountain stream, which rises
In this mountains lying east Of the
settlement and which forms the natural
boundary between Pauvan and Round
Valley. The elevated bench on which
the valley IL situated commpnds n line
view Of the great valley lying 81 the
west and northwest. Oak Creek was
first settled In 1865 by Saints who had
formerly resided Mt DsseTet, which
place was abandoned that year owing
TO the repeated loss Of the dame which
the settlerr had constructed across the
SEWER river, In order % obtain water
for Irrigation purposes. Oak CfesE
ward has AZ present 30 families, or 800
souls. Peter Anderson prrsidts with
George Finlinson anu Fred. Il. Lyman
as hiA cOuuselUrs.
Deseret wari Of today embraces a
scope OF country lying on bo.h sidrs
OF the SEWER river about ~
miles bel low bennington, und about
TWEEN y miles northeast OF the sink O