[William Clayton Journal] This morning the brethren commenced making the bower[y] on the Temple lot a little south west from our camp. They will make it about 40 feet long and 28 feet wide. Walked with Presidents Young, Kimball, Richards and others to the mississippi Camp. Brother Thomas Richardson is very sick and several others of the soldiers. Soloman Tindal is yet alive but looks feeble. Elder Kimball conversed sometime with Captain James Brown. There are from 20 to 30 of the Utah Indians here and some squaws trading with the brethren. They are generally of low stature, pleasing countenance but poorly clad. While we were there a dispute arose between two of the young men and they went to fighting very fiercely...In the evening I walked down to the Pueblo camp and there learned the following particulars.
These Indians who are now here are of the Shoshones, about 15 or 20 in number and several women among them. There were 4 or 5 of the Utahs here this morning when the Shoshones [came] up, one of the Utahs had stole[n] a horse from one of the Shoshones and the latter party saw him with the horse here. He had traded the horse for a rifle but was unwilling either to give up the horse or rifle, hence the quarrel spoken of above. When the old man separated them the thief went down and hid himself in the camp below. Soon after he saw another horse walking by which he knew to belong to the Shoshones. He sprang on his own horse and drove the other one before him towards the mountains on the southeast as hard as he could ride. The Shoshones being informed of it four of them started in pursuit and as he got in between the mountains they closed on him. One of the pursuers shot him dead while another one shot his horse. They returned and made this report to the others of the tribe at the camp at the same time exhibiting fresh blood on one of the rifles. They appear to be much excited and continually on the watch. When the men returned they sat down and made a meal of some of these large crickets. They appear to be crisped over the fire which is all the cooking required. Many of the brethren have traded muskets and rifles for horses, an ordinary musket will buy a pretty good horse.
They appear to be displeased because we have traded with the Utahs and say they own this land, that the Utahs have come over the line &c. They signified by signs that they wanted to sell us the land for powder and lead. The Shoshones are poorer clad than the Utahs of the two, about the same in stature and there are many pleasing countenances among them.
Col. [Stephen] Markham reports that there are 3 lots of land already broke. One lot of 35 acres of which 2/3 is already planted with buck wheat, corn, Oats &c. One lot of 8 acres which is all planted with corn, potatoes, beans &c. And a Garden of 10 acres, four acres of which is sown with garden seed. He says there are about three acres of corn already up about two inches above the ground and some beans and potatoes up too. This is the result of 8 days labor, besides making a road to the timber, hauling and sawing timber for a boat, making and repairing plows &c. There have been 13 plows and 3 Harrows worked during the week.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Mormon History, Jul 31, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Saturday July 31st 1847. Sent 4 men on guard and staid in. Settled with Dayton for stewart.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, Jul 31, 1847
Orson Pratt and Henry G. Sherwood began the first survey in Salt Lake City. It is completed three weeks later.
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
Mormon History, Jul 31, 1847
[Brigham Young Sermon] President Young gave some general instruction to the Battalion pertaining to trading with the Indians, and their future course, etc. -- Salt Lake City [Pioneering the West 1846 to 1878: Major Howard EganÂ's Diary. Howard R. Egan, ed. Salt Lake City, 1917. 113]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
Mormon History, Jul 30, 1847. Friday.
[William Clayton Journal] Day warm. Twelve held a council with the officers of the Battalion, then rode up to the hot spring. Evening a general meeting of the camp and addressed by President Young. He told his feelings concerning the soldiers, they have saved the people by going when required &c. He rejoices that they are here. He expressed his feelings warmly towards the brethren, and also told his feelings towards the gentiles. The meeting was opened by Hosannas three times and closed by requesting the Battalion to build a bower[y] tomorrow on the temple lot where we can assemble for meetings &c.
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
[George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Mormon History, Jul 30, 1847 (Morning)
[Brigham Young Sermon] The land belongs to our Father in Heaven and we calculate to plow and plant it, and no man will have power to sell his inheritance, for he cannot remove it, it belongs to the Lord. I am glad I am come to a place where I feel free. I am satisfied and we are in a goodly land. My family is back, my teams are helping on several families and leaving ours. If my family was here I would not go over that road again. I believe in Brother Joseph, religion, and which he said was a key that would save every man or woman, and that it is for every man to mind his own business and let other peoples business alone. We will have a farm, and cultivate them, and plant vineyards, and if we are faithful, five years will not pass away before we are better off that we were in Nauvoo. If we had brought our families along, everybody else would have come and we have got to lose another year. We could not bring all the soldiers families for the same reason that we did not bring our own families. I thank the Lord that there are so many of the soldiers here, if they had tarried in winter quarters there would have been many more deaths among them. We brought many of these pioneers to save their lives, many of them were very sick, and were carried out of their beds and put into the wagons. They have mostly recovered their health, and we have been prosperous and have been permitted to arrive here alive, there has not one died on the journey nor an ox nor horse, nor anything except one of Brother Robert Crows oxen which was poisoned. We lost several horses by accident. And we shall be prosperous on our journey back again if we are faithful, those of us who go, and we shall see and enjoy the society of our families again. We will one day have a house built here and have the forts, and go into the house and administer for our dead. -- Salt Lake City [An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton. George D. Smith, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books-Smith Research Associates, 1991. 375-376]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
Mormon History, Jul 30, 1847 (Evening)
[Brigham Young Sermon] The brethren were addressed by President Young in his usual interesting and instructive manner. The meeting was opened by a Hosannah to God, three times. He addressed the brethren of the Battalion very warm and affectionately. He said the council had proffered their assistance to the government to go to California, but they were always silent on the subject, until they heard we were driven from our homes and scattered on the prairie. Then they made a demand for five hundred men, that they might have women and children to suffer, and, if we had not complied with the requisition, they would have treated us as enemies, and the next move would have been to have let Missouri and the adjoining states loose on us, and wipe us from the face of the earth. This is what they had in contemplation, and your going into the army has saved the lives of thousands of people, etc. President Young requested the brethren of the Battalion to turn out tomorrow and build a bowery to hold our meetings in. -- Salt Lake City [Pioneering the West 1846 to 1878: Major Howard EganÂ's Diary. Howard R. Egan, ed. Salt Lake City, 1917. 112]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
Mormon History, Jul 30, 1847 (Evening)
[Brigham Young Sermon] President Young made a few preliminary remarks, when praise to God for the safe return of so many of the Battalion was given by shouting '"Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, give Glory to God and the Lamb, for ever and ever, Amen, Amen, and Amen.'" He then made some very pointed remarks, stating that the battalion saved the people by going into the army. If they had not gone, Missouri was ready with 3000 men to have wiped the saints out of existence. Young reiterated his feelings toward United States officers, and also described the plan and order of the city similar to Wednesday evening. He requested the battalion to build a bowery on the temple lot tomorrow, which they agreed to. He did not close his remarks until about 10 when he ceased being very hoarse. -- Salt Lake City [Pioneer Camp of the Saints, Journals of Thomas Bullock. Will Bagley, ed. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. 245]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
Mormon History, Jul 30, 1847 (Evening)
[Brigham Young Sermon] President Young directed his remarks more particularly to the soldiers. He considered that the brethren of the Battalion had been the means of saving the Saints from destruction, and felt kindly disposed towards them for the sacrifices they had made. -- Salt Lake City [Brigham Young, The Man and His Work. Preston Nibley. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1960. 102]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
Mormon History, Jul 30, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday July 30th 1847. Sent out 4 men on guard & staid in
The council met to try the case of the young men stealing the canoe but they had ran away & of course no trial and as there was no other business before the council the subject of the police came up and the council wanted us to make some reports which we were not willing to do because our evedence was only as the evedence of another man & in cases of adultery the chance would be against a single policeman if he reported. It was however decided that a policeman testimony should be taken in preference to any one else & we would be safe in making all reports[.] This council resulted in much good as may be learned hereafter
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
The council met to try the case of the young men stealing the canoe but they had ran away & of course no trial and as there was no other business before the council the subject of the police came up and the council wanted us to make some reports which we were not willing to do because our evedence was only as the evedence of another man & in cases of adultery the chance would be against a single policeman if he reported. It was however decided that a policeman testimony should be taken in preference to any one else & we would be safe in making all reports[.] This council resulted in much good as may be learned hereafter
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, Jul 30, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 30th + We met in Council this morning with the Twelve & Captain Brown, Higings, Willis & others & Herd the statements of the officers concerning the Battalion & there situation represented. Counsil was given by President Young to the Officers what course to per sue. It seemed wisdom for Capt Brown & others to go to the Bay of San Francisco & report himself & men & the state they were in. Br Brannan would go as there Pilot.
Much conversation took place during Council of interest. Dr Sanderson was spoken of who had been with the Battalion and it was believed he had tried to poison the Brethren to death & that He would be rewarded for his Crimes.
After the Council Broke up we mounted our Horses & rode north to the warm Springs. Also visited the Hot sulpher spring 4 miles from the Temple block. It ishues out from under A rock. A large fountain of water forms A pool about 2 rods square 5 feet deep. Is hot enough to cook an egg in few moments. We could hold our fingers in it about 10 seconds. After viewing it a while we returned to camp.
I then visited the soldiers camp & also planted ground. I found some of our potatoes had rotted. Some was coming up. Our corn was up also beans.
I returned to Camp & had a visit from Br Dexter Stillman. He wished to Come into my family. Also Br James Bevin wished to returned again to my family as He was with me when He went into the Army.
At 8 oclok All the Camps met to gether & was Addressed for more than an hour by President Young in An interesting manner Clothed with the spirit of God. He expressed his feelings freely concerning the treatment of the government towards us in the same manner as He did on the eve of the 28th. He informed the Brethren that there going into the Armey proved our temporal salvation at the time for the Governor of Mo had already recieved orders not to let our people pass the Mo river if we did not enlist.
The goverment intended to distroy us from off the face of the earth but through the Blessing of God we are here And I thank my Heavenly father for it. And [he?] knew we should prevail. Zion would arise the Judgments of God would be poured out the Blood of the Prophets would be av[enged] & their Cup would be filled double unto them. And if we were faithful we should yet have Brs Joseph & Hiram & many of the saints in there resurrected Bodies with us on earth & when we died should not sleep but a little time but should Come forth out of our graves with Bodies that no mob could kill. We were much edifyed with all the remarks He made.
The meeting opened with A shout of Hosannah to God & the Lamb repeated three times with its Amen. Br Young said the Ancient of days was not as far off as many supposed.
At the close of the meeting I returned to rest meditating upon what I had herd. An appointment was made for the Battalion to prepare A Bowery on the Morrow for our Sabbath Meetings. 8.31st Saturday I spent the morning in writing. The Battalion went to work at the Bower, our camp sowing & planting.
About noon A company of about 20 Utahs visited our camp. There seemed to be two parties of them. They came to trade with us & while traiding deerskins for powder & lead &c one Indian struck another one over his head with his gun & broke it. The old [Chief?] whiped them both, & during the Afternoon the one that had the gun broke over his head stole the other ones Horse & put out with it. Soon the Indians found it out & put after him. Followed him into a Canion & shot both him & his horse d[ead?] & returned to our camp with the Horse that the Indian [stole?].
The Utahs appear vary friendly to us as yet.
There was A [rumor/report?] out to day that the Indians intended to come & ask pay for their lands. Br Young has expressed his opinion that we Should not buy any land of the Indians but as the Lord made the land there was enough for both them & us, that we would teach them to labour & cultivate the earth. Br Pratts opinion was that we should not feed them at all untill they had done sumthing for it so as to begin right with them & teach them industry.
During the evening I went down to the Utah outlet with several of the brethren & drew a net 4 times & Caught one fish. They needed a boat & could not get [my?] fish without it. Travled during the day 18 m.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Much conversation took place during Council of interest. Dr Sanderson was spoken of who had been with the Battalion and it was believed he had tried to poison the Brethren to death & that He would be rewarded for his Crimes.
After the Council Broke up we mounted our Horses & rode north to the warm Springs. Also visited the Hot sulpher spring 4 miles from the Temple block. It ishues out from under A rock. A large fountain of water forms A pool about 2 rods square 5 feet deep. Is hot enough to cook an egg in few moments. We could hold our fingers in it about 10 seconds. After viewing it a while we returned to camp.
I then visited the soldiers camp & also planted ground. I found some of our potatoes had rotted. Some was coming up. Our corn was up also beans.
I returned to Camp & had a visit from Br Dexter Stillman. He wished to Come into my family. Also Br James Bevin wished to returned again to my family as He was with me when He went into the Army.
At 8 oclok All the Camps met to gether & was Addressed for more than an hour by President Young in An interesting manner Clothed with the spirit of God. He expressed his feelings freely concerning the treatment of the government towards us in the same manner as He did on the eve of the 28th. He informed the Brethren that there going into the Armey proved our temporal salvation at the time for the Governor of Mo had already recieved orders not to let our people pass the Mo river if we did not enlist.
The goverment intended to distroy us from off the face of the earth but through the Blessing of God we are here And I thank my Heavenly father for it. And [he?] knew we should prevail. Zion would arise the Judgments of God would be poured out the Blood of the Prophets would be av[enged] & their Cup would be filled double unto them. And if we were faithful we should yet have Brs Joseph & Hiram & many of the saints in there resurrected Bodies with us on earth & when we died should not sleep but a little time but should Come forth out of our graves with Bodies that no mob could kill. We were much edifyed with all the remarks He made.
The meeting opened with A shout of Hosannah to God & the Lamb repeated three times with its Amen. Br Young said the Ancient of days was not as far off as many supposed.
At the close of the meeting I returned to rest meditating upon what I had herd. An appointment was made for the Battalion to prepare A Bowery on the Morrow for our Sabbath Meetings. 8.31st Saturday I spent the morning in writing. The Battalion went to work at the Bower, our camp sowing & planting.
About noon A company of about 20 Utahs visited our camp. There seemed to be two parties of them. They came to trade with us & while traiding deerskins for powder & lead &c one Indian struck another one over his head with his gun & broke it. The old [Chief?] whiped them both, & during the Afternoon the one that had the gun broke over his head stole the other ones Horse & put out with it. Soon the Indians found it out & put after him. Followed him into a Canion & shot both him & his horse d[ead?] & returned to our camp with the Horse that the Indian [stole?].
The Utahs appear vary friendly to us as yet.
There was A [rumor/report?] out to day that the Indians intended to come & ask pay for their lands. Br Young has expressed his opinion that we Should not buy any land of the Indians but as the Lord made the land there was enough for both them & us, that we would teach them to labour & cultivate the earth. Br Pratts opinion was that we should not feed them at all untill they had done sumthing for it so as to begin right with them & teach them industry.
During the evening I went down to the Utah outlet with several of the brethren & drew a net 4 times & Caught one fish. They needed a boat & could not get [my?] fish without it. Travled during the day 18 m.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Mormon History, Jul 29, 1847. Thursday.
[William Clayton Journal] ...At 3 o'clock the Pueblo brethren came in sight. The soldiers appearing in military order, many of them mounted. They have 29 wagons in the company and one carriage.
Presidents Young, Kimball and the Twelve went to meet the brethren and met them in the Kanion. They report that they have very heavy rain there, the water rising in the creek three feet in a very short time, caused by the rush from the mountains. The brethren arrived at the lower camp at half past, and marched in headed by the fifes and side drum. They have camped a little west of the other camp. The brethren are represented as feeling well and cheerful. At 5 o'clock the Twelve returned here and an hour later went over north to the mountains, I suppose to hold a council.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Presidents Young, Kimball and the Twelve went to meet the brethren and met them in the Kanion. They report that they have very heavy rain there, the water rising in the creek three feet in a very short time, caused by the rush from the mountains. The brethren arrived at the lower camp at half past, and marched in headed by the fifes and side drum. They have camped a little west of the other camp. The brethren are represented as feeling well and cheerful. At 5 o'clock the Twelve returned here and an hour later went over north to the mountains, I suppose to hold a council.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Mormon History, Jul 29, 1847 (Thursday)
The detachment of the Mormon Battalion, which had wintered at Pueblo, on the Arkansas river, under Capt. James Brown, arrived in G.S.L. Valley, accompanied by the Saints from Mississippi. This increased the number in camp to about four hundred souls.
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
[Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
Mormon History, Jul 29, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Thursday July 29th 1847. Sent 5 men on guard and staid in
Stewart had his trial with Dayton to who had took Stewarts wife & ran through with his property while he was gone back after provisions last winter[.] He had also reported that Stewart had apostatized and sold my team & many more things. He proved to be a most consummate and contemptible scroundal. I was out on guard till eleven oclock at night
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Stewart had his trial with Dayton to who had took Stewarts wife & ran through with his property while he was gone back after provisions last winter[.] He had also reported that Stewart had apostatized and sold my team & many more things. He proved to be a most consummate and contemptible scroundal. I was out on guard till eleven oclock at night
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, Jul 29, 1847
The sick detachments of the Mormon Battalion and the Mississippi Saints, who had wintered at Pueblo, Colorado, arrive in the Salt Lake Valley.
Mormon History, Jul 29, 1847
152 members of the Mormon Battalion (discharged early due to illness) arrive in Salt Lake Valley accompanied by wives, children and 47 Mississippi Mormons. This swells the population to over 400. William Clayton notes: "The soldiers appearing in military order, many of them mounted. They have 29 wagons in the company and one carriage."
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
[source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
Mormon History, Jul 29, 1847
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 29th President Young with his brethren the Twelve & others mounted horses & started to meet with the Battalion under the Command of Captain Brown. We met with some of them about 4 miles from camp. We were truly glad to meet with them. We continued on up & soon met with Capts Brown, Higgins, Lieut Willis & the train f[ollow?]ing them. We exhamined A good grind stone quiry while on the way up. I soon met with Br Bevin who went from my family into the Army. There was About 140 of the Battalion And a company of about 100 of the Missippi saints that came with them from Pueblo being about 60 waggons in all 100 Horses & Mules & 300 Head of cattle which added greatly to our numbers
We had A Heavy shower of rain while we were in the Canion which sent down the water in the Creeks from the mountains with a rush & roar like thunder resembling the opening of a flood gate. The first rush of the water came down with a front 3 feet High. Some of the waggons had to stop untill it fell which was but a short time. The shower spread over A good share of the valley whare we were setled.
We returned with the company at there head & march into camp with music. They took up there quarters between our two Camps on the bank of the creek.
While we have been exploring the Camp has been busy in farming puting in potatoes, Corn, beans, peas, buckwheat, & Preparing A garding for garding seeds & will go to work to prepare a peace for turnips. Our garding to day was divided off as each [ten?] had need. Our distance of travel to day was 12 miles.
In the evening Br Young with the Twelve walked up to the warm springs about 1 1/2 miles from the Temple Block. We went in & bathed. It was quite as warm as we Could endure & be Comfortable. Those springs are healthy for the sick & diseased.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
We had A Heavy shower of rain while we were in the Canion which sent down the water in the Creeks from the mountains with a rush & roar like thunder resembling the opening of a flood gate. The first rush of the water came down with a front 3 feet High. Some of the waggons had to stop untill it fell which was but a short time. The shower spread over A good share of the valley whare we were setled.
We returned with the company at there head & march into camp with music. They took up there quarters between our two Camps on the bank of the creek.
While we have been exploring the Camp has been busy in farming puting in potatoes, Corn, beans, peas, buckwheat, & Preparing A garding for garding seeds & will go to work to prepare a peace for turnips. Our garding to day was divided off as each [ten?] had need. Our distance of travel to day was 12 miles.
In the evening Br Young with the Twelve walked up to the warm springs about 1 1/2 miles from the Temple Block. We went in & bathed. It was quite as warm as we Could endure & be Comfortable. Those springs are healthy for the sick & diseased.
[source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
Mormon History, Jul 28, 1847. Wednesday.
[William Clayton Journal] Morning fine and warm. Several of the Indians have remained in the Camp over night. They seem very peacable and gentle, and anxious to trade. The brethren are making a saw pit to saw lumber for a skiff...At half past 3 President Young and company returned. They have been at the Salt Lake and report it to be about 25 miles distance. No water after they leave the river except salt water. The lake is very clear and the water heavy, so much so that a man cannot possibily sink. Even where not more than four foot deep and they tried to fall down on their knees but could not touch the bottom. They can sit or lay in the water perfectly easy without touching the bottom. One of the brethren lay down on the water and another got on him but could not sink him. They suppose the water will yield 35 per cent of pure salt . . .
At 8 o'clock the brethren were called together and addressed by President Young on various subjects, pointing out items of law which would be put in force here, his feelings towards the gentiles &c. He said they intended to divide the City into blocks of 10 acres each with 8 lots in a block of 1 1/4 acres each. The streets to be wide. No house will be permitted to be built on the corners of the streets neither petty shops. Each house will have to be built so many feet back from the street and all the houses parallel with each other. The fronts to be beautified with fruit trees &c. No filth will be allowed to stand in the City, but the water will be conducted through in such a manner as to carry all the filth off to the river Jordan. No man will be suffered to cut up his lot and sell a part to speculate out of his brethren. Each man must keep his lot whole for the Lord has given it to us without price. The temple lot will be 40 acres and adorned with trees, ponds &c. The whole subject was interesting to the brethren and the items will probably be given more fully hereafter. The Twelve were appointed a committee to lay off the City &c.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
At 8 o'clock the brethren were called together and addressed by President Young on various subjects, pointing out items of law which would be put in force here, his feelings towards the gentiles &c. He said they intended to divide the City into blocks of 10 acres each with 8 lots in a block of 1 1/4 acres each. The streets to be wide. No house will be permitted to be built on the corners of the streets neither petty shops. Each house will have to be built so many feet back from the street and all the houses parallel with each other. The fronts to be beautified with fruit trees &c. No filth will be allowed to stand in the City, but the water will be conducted through in such a manner as to carry all the filth off to the river Jordan. No man will be suffered to cut up his lot and sell a part to speculate out of his brethren. Each man must keep his lot whole for the Lord has given it to us without price. The temple lot will be 40 acres and adorned with trees, ponds &c. The whole subject was interesting to the brethren and the items will probably be given more fully hereafter. The Twelve were appointed a committee to lay off the City &c.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
Mormon History, Jul 28, 1847
[Hosea Stout Diary] Wednesday July 28th 1847. Sent 4 men out on guard & staid in to attend to a case wherein some young men were suspected of stealing a conoe from Br Lyman one of the fishermen. We ascertained that they had & hid it down the river some two or three miles & intended to go off at night. The council met on the case and adjourned the trial for further evidence.
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
Mormon History, Jul 28, 1847
Traveling with a group of leaders, Brigham Young puts his cane in the ground and marks the location of the future Salt Lake Temple.
[source: Wikipedia, 19th Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)]
[source: Wikipedia, 19th Century (Mormonism), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)]
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