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Mr. H. P. Kimball, treasurer and superintendent of construction of the U.W. Railway Co., returned from the east on Saturday night September 2, where he has been with Mr. John W. Young, president of the same company. Mr. Kimball went east as agent of the Salt Lake, Sevier Valley and Pioche R.R. Co., to settle up with the creditors thereof and to assist Mr. Young in the business of the new company. All of the debts of the old company have been assumed by the Utah Western, and the old company have agreed to transfer to the new all of their claim to the following rolling stock, grade, bridges, &c., and receive therefor stock in the new company..
The most direct route, for the California emigrants, would be to leave the Oregon route, about two hundred miles east from Fort Hall; thence bearing West Southwest, to the Salt Lake; and thence continuing down to the bay of St. Francisco, by the route just described.
As Brigham Young sadly reflected over these losses, he was confronted even more urgently with the necessity of finding more suitable land for colonization. From Tooele in 1856, Peter Maughan went to the Mormon leader and described the desolation in Tooele. Successive years of drought, saleratus, and grasshoppers had destroyed the crops of the settlers, and the Indians had stolen many cattle. Some of the settlers lacked food, and many faced starvation. Peter Maughan wanted to go to a more promising region to settle, and Brigham Young was faced with a dilemma. He weighed in his mind the dry regions in the south with their milder climates, but disheartening droughts, against the rich grasslands of the north with their devastating winters. Might not new settlers on the northern frontier suffer the same fate which overtook the cattle the year before, or might they not face massacre by the Indians? But the people of Tooele must have relief, and, as Peter Maughan wrote in his journal: 'On the 21st of July 1856 I was sent by President Brigham Young to pick out a location in Cache Valley for a settlement. Brother Z. Riggs, G. W. Bryan, William Maughan, J. Tate, M. Morgan and myself started and made a choice of the south end of the valley for our location'. When Peter Maughan reported his explorations to the Mormon leader, he received permission to lead a party of volunteers to settle in Cache Valley. Late in August, a small group left Tooele bound for the northern country. They were: Peter Maughan, G. W. Bryan, John and William Maughan, Zial Riggs, Francis Gunnel, D. Thompson, William Hamblin and probably Tom Wright. Seven of them were accompanied by their families. They traveled through Box Elder Canyon and went through Sardine Canyon to the valley. In her journal Mary Ann Weston Maughan, who drove the first wagon to the site of the new settlement, wrote: 'When we got to the mouth of the canyon we stoped to look at the Beautiful Valley before us, my first words were, O What a beautiful valley. We drove on to the creek near where Bro Bankhead's home now stands, here we camped on the 15th day of September 1856 [the brethren] have put up sufficient hay then they mead corrolls for our stock then some log cabins for us to live in, mine was small'...In 1860, Apostle Ezra T. Benson came to live in Logan and to direct religious affairs. From that date these men worked together to colonize the territory, to form wards, to name towns, and to nominate bishops whom the people voted to sustain. Peter Maughan also was chosen the first probate judge, and he administered the law in the valley. In each community a bishop was chosen, and he rendered justice and led the people in economic activity as well as in religious affairs. He was in reality the 'father' of his ward.
We then followed Hasting's road around the Lake without incident worthy of notice until reaching a swampy section of the country west of Black Rock, the name we gave it". "We overtook Mr. Hastings at a place we called Blackrock, south end of Salt Lake, leaving McCutchen and Stanton here, their horses having failed.
As Brigham Young sadly reflected over these losses, he was confronted even more urgently with the necessity of finding more suitable land for colonization. From Tooele in 1856, Peter Maughan went to the Mormon leader and described the desolation in Tooele. Successive years of drought, saleratus, and grasshoppers had destroyed the crops of the settlers, and the Indians had stolen many cattle. Some of the settlers lacked food, and many faced starvation. Peter Maughan wanted to go to a more promising region to settle, and Brigham Young was faced with a dilemma. He weighed in his mind the dry regions in the south with their milder climates, but disheartening droughts, against the rich grasslands of the north with their devastating winters. Might not new settlers on the northern frontier suffer the same fate which overtook the cattle the year before, or might they not face massacre by the Indians? But the people of Tooele must have relief, and, as Peter Maughan wrote in his journal: 'On the 21st of July 1856 I was sent by President Brigham Young to pick out a location in Cache Valley for a settlement. Brother Z. Riggs, G. W. Bryan, William Maughan, J. Tate, M. Morgan and myself started and made a choice of the south end of the valley for our location'. When Peter Maughan reported his explorations to the Mormon leader, he received permission to lead a party of volunteers to settle in Cache Valley. Late in August, a small group left Tooele bound for the northern country. They were: Peter Maughan, G. W. Bryan, John and William Maughan, Zial Riggs, Francis Gunnel, D. Thompson, William Hamblin and probably Tom Wright. Seven of them were accompanied by their families. They traveled through Box Elder Canyon and went through Sardine Canyon to the valley. In her journal Mary Ann Weston Maughan, who drove the first wagon to the site of the new settlement, wrote: 'When we got to the mouth of the canyon we stoped to look at the Beautiful Valley before us, my first words were, O What a beautiful valley. We drove on to the creek near where Bro Bankhead's home now stands, here we camped on the 15th day of September 1856 [the brethren] have put up sufficient hay then they mead corrolls for our stock then some log cabins for us to live in, mine was small'...In 1860, Apostle Ezra T. Benson came to live in Logan and to direct religious affairs. From that date these men worked together to colonize the territory, to form wards, to name towns, and to nominate bishops whom the people voted to sustain. Peter Maughan also was chosen the first probate judge, and he administered the law in the valley. In each community a bishop was chosen, and he rendered justice and led the people in economic activity as well as in religious affairs. He was in reality the 'father' of his ward.
The nearest point on the shoreline is distant about ten miles from Salt Lake City, and is almost inaccessible on account of the boggy character of the ground, but, by taking the Western Utah Railroad, at a distance of twenty miles you reach what is called Lake Point, where the shore is gravelly and wholesome and abounds in fine retreating bays that seem to have been made on purpose for bathing. Here the northern peaks of the Oquirrh Range plant their feet in the clear blue brine, with fine curbing insteps, leaving no space for muddy levels. The crystal brightness of the water, the wild flowers, and the lovely mountain scenery make this a favorite summer resort for pleasure and health seekers. Numerous excursion trains are run from the city, and parties, some of them numbering upwards of a thousand, come to bathe, and dance, and roam the flowery hillsides together...Since the completion of the transcontinental and Utah railways, this magnificent lake in the heart of the continent has become as accessible as any watering-place on either coast; and I am sure that thousands of travelers, sick and well, would throng its shores every summer were its merits but half known. Lake Point is only an hour or two from the city, and has hotel accommodations and a steamboat for excursions; and then, besides the bracing waters, the climate is delightful. The mountains rise into the cool sky furrowed with cañons almost yosemitic in grandeur, and filled with a glorious profusion of flowers and trees. Lovers of science, lovers of wildness, lovers of pure rest will find here more than they may hope for. As for the Mormons one meets, however their doctrines be regarded, they will be found as rich in human kindness as any people in all our broad land, while the dark memories that cloud their earlier history will vanish from the mind as completely as when we bathe in the fountain azure of the Sierra.
As Brigham Young sadly reflected over these losses, he was confronted even more urgently with the necessity of finding more suitable land for colonization. From Tooele in 1856, Peter Maughan went to the Mormon leader and described the desolation in Tooele. Successive years of drought, saleratus, and grasshoppers had destroyed the crops of the settlers, and the Indians had stolen many cattle. Some of the settlers lacked food, and many faced starvation. Peter Maughan wanted to go to a more promising region to settle, and Brigham Young was faced with a dilemma. He weighed in his mind the dry regions in the south with their milder climates, but disheartening droughts, against the rich grasslands of the north with their devastating winters. Might not new settlers on the northern frontier suffer the same fate which overtook the cattle the year before, or might they not face massacre by the Indians? But the people of Tooele must have relief, and, as Peter Maughan wrote in his journal: 'On the 21st of July 1856 I was sent by President Brigham Young to pick out a location in Cache Valley for a settlement. Brother Z. Riggs, G. W. Bryan, William Maughan, J. Tate, M. Morgan and myself started and made a choice of the south end of the valley for our location'. When Peter Maughan reported his explorations to the Mormon leader, he received permission to lead a party of volunteers to settle in Cache Valley. Late in August, a small group left Tooele bound for the northern country. They were: Peter Maughan, G. W. Bryan, John and William Maughan, Zial Riggs, Francis Gunnel, D. Thompson, William Hamblin and probably Tom Wright. Seven of them were accompanied by their families. They traveled through Box Elder Canyon and went through Sardine Canyon to the valley. In her journal Mary Ann Weston Maughan, who drove the first wagon to the site of the new settlement, wrote: 'When we got to the mouth of the canyon we stoped to look at the Beautiful Valley before us, my first words were, O What a beautiful valley. We drove on to the creek near where Bro Bankhead's home now stands, here we camped on the 15th day of September 1856 [the brethren] have put up sufficient hay then they mead corrolls for our stock then some log cabins for us to live in, mine was small'...In 1860, Apostle Ezra T. Benson came to live in Logan and to direct religious affairs. From that date these men worked together to colonize the territory, to form wards, to name towns, and to nominate bishops whom the people voted to sustain. Peter Maughan also was chosen the first probate judge, and he administered the law in the valley. In each community a bishop was chosen, and he rendered justice and led the people in economic activity as well as in religious affairs. He was in reality the 'father' of his ward.
