Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

M
M mon, mons ases sS"%sos'a' %s1s var'ss ass'''s
sources, but when one con-
siders the happiness of the home, the
beauty OF environment, and the unity
of public Interest and support few
places in Utah and in fact the whole
west can vie with beautiful Pleasant
Grove Utah county. Nesting close
to the foot of Mt. Timpanogos, the
loftiest peak in the WAsatcn range,
its proud snow-crcsted summit rising
6u00 fcet above the city and 12,0O0
feet above the level of the sea. being
within a mile or so OF UtaA lake. the
largest BODY Of fresh water In the
state. Pleasant Grove is q city truly
blessed by nature and by man.
HISTORY OF CITY.
The history of Pleasant Grove is
romantic and interesting.
w. H Adams, Jr., gives the follow
xEg account or it.
In the summer of 1850 Daniel II.
Wells and Lewis Robinson sent some
stock 10 Pleasant Grove for grazing
purposes, which were herded q Eor-
ton of that summer by Calvin Moore
and Orlando Heron. botn of whom
autumn. In the month OF July, 1850,
William II. Adams. Philo Farnsworth.
and John Mercer LETT Salt Lake city
for the south. spending some time
looking over prospects at LEM ana
American Fork, neither of which
seemed to suit their particular pur-
pose. so they came to Pleasant Grove
and pitched their camp by beauti-
ful cottonwood grove of fine tall trees
that grew where the southeast part
of the city now Is. on the 18th day
of July 1850, they began stalking out
land around and near by the present
site of the San Pedro depot. remain
ing for several days in making pre-
paratons for their future homes be-
fore returning to Salt Lake city.
In the latter part of September of
that year George Clark. John Holman.
Lewis Harvey, and n few other fami-
lies moved from Salt Lake and con-
struoted few log cabins on the west
side of the grove previously mentioned. !
q. which point they spent the winter.
In October of the same year, w. II. /
Adams and John Banks moved their !
families from Salt Lake City and |
Joined the little camp, 1t being then
late in the fall and extremely cold. /
They set their two wagon boxes on |
some blocks of wood near the houses !
and wintered in them. During the /
severe winter that followed they all |
took their running gears and hauled /
logs from the canyons with which TO
build houses on the land they had
chosen and as there were many fine
cedars In what is now known as VIM
yard, a short distance south of here,
they hauled many hundred cedar
posts with which to make fences.
These posts were placed In large piles.
and by the spring of 1853 the bark
had all rotted from them. y curious
nroNi1pnca resulted from thn nl1cinC
of this Pile of cedars near the camp;
in the spring of 1853 the vegetation
of the entire neighborhood was so
eaten up by grasshoppers and crickets
that the Inhabitants of the camp had
TO resort to roots and thistles and
other forbidding kinds OF vegetation
for something to eat. The pile of
cedar bark had so enriched the ground
upon which II was placed that a great
quantity Of mushrooms sPrang up
during these arduouS times. and the
people made it a custom to gather
them from this place every morning
for a long time, thus preventing star
walton which was so imminent just
then.
There are five persons: ,iriEe q
Pleasant Grove, who were members
OF the first parY-Mrs. Lusinda
Harvey, Mrs. Nancy Holman. William
ii. Adams. Jr., Franklin c. Banks.
anu Joll "a AutiilS NlpSl VI inc carly
residents of Pleasant Grove made
their homes In this most delightful
little city and reared large familieT,
representatives of whom constitute
the leading citizens of the place to-
day"
In 1855. the numbers of the little
band had so Increased that munich
pal government was deemed advis-
able. A charter was therefore Sc
cured from the territorial legislature
and the Pleasant Grove at the foot OF
Mt. Timpanogos became Pleasant
Grove city" Henson Walker, one of
the pioneers who entered Salt Lake
valley on the memorable 24th of July,