Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-24

(IIL-NtSSSA most btdulHul lNlA-
No. IM scapes to be seen in
I[1@zsU the interior OF the
1lENF n Am erican continent.
GyZL6S Spread out before him
q ~ like a carpet is a vast
! SEE and verdant plain,
= ~ dotted by more than
~ twenty towns within
easy range Of his vision. On every
side of this landscape save the north
is a sharp horizon made by the
crests of mountains that enclose the
valley even as a walled city is en-
closed by its Notifications. On the
north the landscape is less distinctly
defined, by less precipitous undula-
tions of the surface.
Such is Cache valley, the most
beautiful of all the valleys, that were
taken possession of by the early
settlers of this State. 1t is called
the granary of Utah because of its
prolific crops of wheat, and is
undoubtedly an ideal farming
region.
1t seems strange in the light OF
what we know now that Cache val
lev was not chosen as the home OF
many of the people who came to
Utah in the early days, but it was
Ten years after Salt Lake valley was
settled before a crop was raised in
Cache valley. 1t should be stated
here, however, that during that ten
years the climate there was much
more severe than it has been during
recent years, and people naturally
preferred to settle where the winters
were not so cold nor so long.
Though permanent settlements
were not made in Cache valley prior
to 1857, its splendid resources were
not entirely neglected, as large herds
of stock were driven into it to feed
and fatten upon its vast meadows.
In July, 1855, Samuel Roskelley,
Andrew Mofatt and Brigham Young
IT,, we're sent from Salt Lake City to
Cache valley, by President Brigham
Young, to cut hay, construct corrals
and make other preparations for the
care of live stock that were to be
driven into the valley that fall to be
wintered. Bryant Stringham joined
the expedition in the interest of the
Church, Steven Taylor for Squire
sJells, Seymour b. Young for his
father and Lyman Baker and his son
Joseph for themselves. These men
camped on what is now the Church
farm and put up large quantity OF
hay which was fed to stock during
the winter; but this could hardly be
considered the founding of settle
ment as their camp was only tenn
porary in its character.
Though they spent the hottest
weeks of the summer in cutting hay,
one of the party, Samuel Roskclley,
states there was not morning when
they could not get out and write
their names in the frost upon the
covers of their wagons, or other
smooth surfaces. This fact com
pared with the temperature that now
prevails in summer through Cache
valley, shows how wonderfully the
climate has changed.
Peter Vaughan was the Pioneer
settler of Cache valley. Prior to
July, 1886, he had residedin Tooele,
but in that month he removed to
Cache valley persuant to the direc'
tons of President Brigham Young.
He was accompanied by William II,
Vaughan, Geo. Bryan, John Tate,
Morgan Morgan, and Iial Riggs,
They first located upon the present
site OF Wellsville, where they con
structed cabins, after which they re-
turned to Tooele for their families,
with whom they went back in Sep
TENDER, prepared to remain.
In the spring of 1857 the settle
ment of Wellsville was augmented
by a number of families who joined
it. and in April of that year Cache
county was organized by the legis
lature, though there were at the
time within its borders only a few
score inhabitants. Peter Maughar
was probate Judge, William Car
dener, Orange ID. Thompson anc
John T, Carr were sclectmen, Will
lam Carr was sheriff, Francis GunneI
was recorder and John Maughar
was treasurer. The first regula
term of the county court was helc
June first, 1887 and another in Sep
TENDER following.
Then came the total depopulatioi
of the valley on the occasion OF 9TH,
move" but in 1880 the settlers re
turned ard resumed the work O
redeeming the wilderness. Some @
those who had at FIRST settled a
Wellsville removed to the presen
site of Logan city, where on the 2Is
of June, 1850, the first settlers O
Logan drew lots Tor their land. Or
July 3rd, at a public meeting join
b Wright, John Nelson and lerac
J. Clark were appointed to aPportior
the lands to new settlers who IA,
bepun tn come in quite raDi1ly.