The second company of returning Pioneers left G.S.L. Valley for Winter Quarters to forward the emigration, where they arrived Oct. 31st. On their trip they met several companies of Saints who followed in the track of the Pioneers. Between six and seven hundred wagons, with about two thousand souls, arrived in the Valley that fall. When the Pioneers left for Winter Quarters, the colonists in the Valley had laid off a fort, built 27 log houses, plowed and planted 84 acres with corn, potatoes, beans, buckwheat, turnips, etc.
[source: Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology]
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