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DAVIS COUNTY
is second only to Salt Lake County in point of age. It was settled in the spring of 1848 by Peregrine Sessions, who located at what is now called Bountiful. For a long time that section was known as Ses- sions settlement. Davis is the most fertile section in the Territory, or that portion of it is which lies be ween the Sand Ridge a few miles south of Ogden. The Sand Ridge extends from the Wasatch Range on the east, to the lake on the west, and embraces as near as can be roughly estimated, one-third the area of the county. The area is 250 square miles, the smallest of any county in the Territory. The land lying between Salt Lake County and the Sand Ridge is accounted as well watered, is all taken up, has been farmed for years and ranks among the best cultivated sections in Utah. This is due to its location and to the fact that the same people have owned and have been working it for years. It is amply supplied with water, and the lake, which skirts it on the west, furnishes a constant saline breeze that quickly melts the winter snows and brings it into a state for early cultivation surpassed by no section in the Basin. The Sand Ridge is by no means a section incapable of cultivation. Little better farming land is to be found anywhere; but the . absence of water has rendered it impracticable to cultivate the land to any satisfactory degree. "Dry farming," that is, farming without irrigation, has been carried on here with more success than anywhere else in the Terri- tory, and during favorable seasons the production of grain per acre, has exceeded that of many of the old farming districts in Virginia. As high as twenty and twenty-five bushels per acre has been raised. It averages, how- ever, ten to twelve bushels per acre. Large tracts have been farmed in this manner, and are still being cultivated with profit. There is good ground for the opinion that most, if not entirely all this valuable land will be brought under cultivation within a reasonable period, canals tapping the Weber River with a view to irrigating this land, now being constructed. There has been no perceptible increase in the population of Davis County these fifteen years. The county is filled with a peculiar, quiet, pastoral
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people, who have manifested no particular desire to spread out rapidly. They have flour mills, but the fact that they were so close to Salt Lake City. at which point they could secure what they were unable to raise, rendered manufacturing enterprises less necessary, while the acknowledged excellence of the county for gardening and the ready market at Salt Lake offered for their products did not impel them to look in other directions. So they have continued in the old fashion, paying strict attention to their farms, steadily growing wealthy and becoming a typical agricultural community. Efforts have been made in this county, by Mr. Arthur Stayner, looking to the manufacture of sugar; and as indications of a strong possibility for suc- cessful results, the attempt was gratifying in the extreme. The whole of the county, with the exception of the section referred to as the Sand Ridge, is a garden, filled with a prosperous people. Silver, gold, copper, lead and mica have been found in the county and some work has been done, but not enough to justify especial notice. Davis County has but one city, Kays- ville. Farmington is the county seat. Kaysville is the largest in point of population and is also the wealthiest. Farmington, however, is near the centre of the populated portion of the county and is second in importance only to Kaysville.
FARMINGTON, the county seat, situated on the line of the Utah Cen- tral Railway, was first settled in 1848, by D. A. Miller, Thomas Grover, W. Smith and Allen Buck; they were followed by several more in 1849 when an eclesastical ward was organized with Joseph S. Robinson, bishop. They have one church, Latter-day Saints, J. M. Secrest, bishop; six schools and six schoolhouses, five district and one mission school. The only place of amusement is the Social Hall, which is used for dances, theatricals, con- certs, etc. The societies are: Relief Society, Primary Association and the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations. The citizens are chiefly engaged in farming, stock-raising and milling. Mail is received daily from the north and south.
KAYSVILLE is situated on the line of the Utah Central Railway, about eighteen miles north of Salt Lake. It was incorporated in the year 1868, and has an area of seven square miles. Elections are held biennially. The city is surrounded with well cultivated and productive farming lands, the princi- pal industries of the citizens are farming and the raising of horses, sheep. cows and bees. In it are located two grist mills and a brick kiln. There is but one church, Latter-day Saints, with Peter Barton, bishop; six schools and five schoolhouses, Latter-day Saints and Presbyterian, with an average attendance of 225; there are also a music hall and a library of 250 volumes. belonging to the Mutual Improvement Association; a Benevolent and Improvement Society, the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations, Primary and Relief Societies. Kaysville has two mails daily.
CENTREVILLE, situated on the line of the Utah Central Railroad, was first settled in the spring of 1848. There is one church, Latter-day Saints. Nathan Cheeney; bishop; a district school with an average attendance of forty-five; there is also a Relief Society, Primary and Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations. The citizens are chiefly engaged in farming and stock-raising. They have a daily mail.
SOUTH BOUNTIFUL, situated on the line of the Utah Central Railway, about eight miles north of Salt Lake City, was first settled by George Meeyers and Edwin Pace. They have a daily mail from north and south. William Brown is bishop.
EAST BOUNTIFUL, also on the line of the Utah Central Railway, was first settled in the spring of. 1848 by P. Sessions. There is a daily mail to
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and from the town. Chester Call, bishop. There is one church-Latter-day Saints; one school and one schoolhouse-district school-with an average attendance of fifty; also a Relief Society, Primary and Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations. The principal industry of the inhabitants is farming.
WEST BOUNTIFUL, or Wood's Cross, is eight miles north of Salt Lake City and the first station on the line of the Utah Central Railway. Was first settled by James Fackrell and family, November 15, 1848. The citizens are chiefly engaged in farming and gardening; a large quantity of grain, vegetables and fruit is raised and shipped to Salt Lake, where it finds a ready market. West Bountiful has one church-Latter-day Saints-of which W. S. Muir, Jr., is bishop; a district school; Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations. There is a daily mail to and from the place.
KAYS CREEK, on the line of the Utah Central Railway, and about two miles north of Kaysville, is an adjunct of that place, being under the same precinct officers.
EMERY COUNTY.
This county was organized in 1880, and was named after George W. Emery, for several years Governor of Utah. The section of country embraced by Emery is noted for its rich agricultural area, no less than for its vast mineral deposits. Nearly all the minerals so far found in the Terri- tory have been discovered here, while in any particular the section is but imperfectly known. There are large tracts of farming land; areas singularly fitted for pasturage; while the coal fields are absolutely limitless. It is in this county that flowing oil, which it is believed will make excellent petroleum and could be made to yield prolificly, has been discovered. The Denver and Rio Grande runs through the county diagonally from the southeast to the northwest corner, and is assisting materially in its development. At present the towns are small and widely apart, but such a favored area as the boundary lines of Emery County embrace, cannot be long in filling up, with a mixed and energetic population, such as agriculture and mining are cer- tain to bring about. Its inherent wealth and economic resources are literally boundless, and a successful future awaits it. The county is bounded on the cast by Colorado and Uintah County: west by Piute. Sevier and Sanpete; north by Uintah, Wasatch and Utah; and south by Piute and San Juan. The county seat is located at Castle Dale.
CASTLE DAI.E. is the county seat, located in the western part of the county. It was first settled November 2, 1877, by Orange Seely, Jasper Pederson, N. P. Miller and James Wilcox, from Mount Pleasant, and Eras- tus Curtis and a few others from Fountain Green, Sanpete County. Henning Olsen is bishop of the ward. Farming and stock-raising are the main pursuits of the inhabitants, though some mining is done. They have a daily mail.
ORANGEVILLE was first settled in 1878 by E. Curtis, Sr., and J. K. Reid. It has a population of between 300 and 400; one church, Latter-day Saints, Jasper Robertson, bishop. They receive mail three times a week.
HUNTINGTON was first settled by William Huey, E. H. Cox, E. Cox, B. Jones, D. Cheeney, H. O. Crandal, W. Caldwell and J. Cox, and was organized as an ecclesiastical ward October 7, 1879, when E. Cox was appointed bishop.
MOAB, located in the southeastern part of the county, was first settled in 1879 by A. G. Wilson, W. A. and James Peirce and L. and J. Hatch. Was organized as a ward February 15, 1881, with R. H. Stewart, bishop.
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There are also the following small settlements located in different sec- tions of the county: Blake City, Ferron City, Muddy, Price, Green River. and a small place called. Mormon Fort.
GARFIELD COUNTY.
This county , was organized March 9th, 1882, and is the youngest county in the Territory. It originally formed part of Iron County which lies west of the Wasatch Range separating both. . The county is bounded on the north by Piute County, south by Kane County, east by San Juan and west by Iron. The county seat is Panguitch, situated at the extreme western section of the county, high in the mountains. It is in this county that both the Sevier and the Rio Virgin Rivers have their source. A high table land, called the Panguitch and the Sevier Plateaus exist where the snow falls heavy and deep, and are the scene of the head waters of the rivers named, the Sevier flowing to the north, then west and then south and sinks into the Sevier Lake. The Rio Virgin flows to the south and west and ultim- ately empties into the Colorado River. Cataract Canyon and the Colorado River divide Garfield and San Juan Counties. The Colorado River is formed some miles above the northeast corner of Garfield County, by the meeting of Green and Grand Rivers. In Garfield County is the beginning of that wild and weird scenery for which the country along the Colorado River is so noted. The western section lying in and near to the Wasatch Range, is the most thickly populated, though the county is still young. The elevation of Panguitch is some 6,000 feet, and other parts of the county in the west are proportionate. Farming is prosecuted with success and the county is rich in minerals, though but little developed. Not a great deal is known con- cerning the county, save that it belongs to that peculiar section of which the . Colorado River country is the most remarkable. Its altitude is rather too great for farming, but it forms an excellent grazing country. There are several small towns scattered throughout the western portion of the county, all reasonably prosperous. Panguitch is by far the largest town in the county. Like Emery County, Garfield contains no corporated cities.
PANGUITCH, the county seat, located in the extreme eastern part of the county, was first settled in 1871 by Allen Miller, Geo. W. Sevy and Albert DeLong. There are two churches, Latter-day Saints, Joseph C. Davis, bishop of First Ward, and Hirum S. Church, bishop of Second Ward. Mail is received from the north three times a week and from the south once a week.
Besides Panguitch and Cannonville, other settlements are Antimony. Coyote, Escalante, Henrieville, Hillsdale and Tebbsdale.
CANNONVILLE, located in the extreme southern part of the county on the head waters of the Pahreah River, was first settled in the spring of 1875 by D. O. Littlefield, Samuel Littlefield, E. W. Littlefield, O. D. Bliss, John Thompson, J. B. Thompson, Jasper Thompson, William Thompson, Lacy Laramie and Joseph Spencer; the ward was organized in 1876 with J. D. Packer bishop. The present bishop is Ira B. Elmer. The soil here is of excellent quality, and grain, vegetables and fruit are quite extensively culti- vated. There is a mail twice a week, Tuesdays and Saturdays.
IRON COUNTY.
This county was settled on the thirteenth day of January, 1851, by Apostle George A. Smith, Bishops Wm. H. Dame and H. Lunt, and about 115 men and boys, with some thirty women and children. The place at which they located was then called Little Salt Lake Valley, because of a
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small lake of salt water situated in the valley and which is now nearly due west from Paragoonah. The county was organized the same year. Garfield County was, until 1882, embraced in Iron County, with Hamilton's Fort as the southernmost village. Latterly, however, Kanara has been incorpor- ated in this county. Iron is bounded on the east by Garfield, on the west by Nevada, on the north by Beaver, and south by Kane and Washington Counties. Its southern boundary embraces the southern rim of the Great Basin. Nearly all the land in the county is of a reddish color, giving unquestioned evidence of the presence of iron in great quantities. The mountains in the east, through the whole of the county, convey the same idea. They are low and of a reddish hue. The county was named because of these iron indications. It is in this county that the greatest iron mines in the world exist, and which are more fully described under the appropriate heading. Coal also exists in large quantities in this county in the mountains east of Cedar City, and though definite tests have not yet been made, the impression is that some of it will coke well. The county contains an immense amount of beautiful farming land, the like of which is rarely found; but it mainly lies idle because of the absence of water facilities that will enable it to be irrigated. The people, moreover, live a great distance from railroad communication and have no immediate market for grain or other farm products. As a consequence, the incentive is not given for greater exertion, nor does the occasion justify a rapid increase in population. There is little doubt, the iron mines once permanently operated and the manufacture of iron determinedly undertaken, that the county will find itself equal to the cultivation of much larger areas than are now deemed possible, while water-saving means will be introduced for which, at present, there is no pressing need. Considerable stock is owned by parties living in the county, and this has proven a source of much wealth. The soil and temperature are also well adapted to the growth of fruit, particularly of apples. The inhabitants do not feel very wealthy, but in many respects they are really well off. Their farms are not as valuable as those located near business centres, and they have not the ready money that some can command; but mortgages are almost unknown, and what the people are surrounded with belongs to them alone. There is little doubt of a remark- able future before Iron County. It is also reasonably certain that the Utah Central will be extended far enough into the county to tap the remarkably rich iron deposits that exist there. The western part of the county is com- posed of so-called "desert" land, barren, only because of the absence of water. Its altitude is less than that of Garfield County. In addition to iron and coal, silver, lead, fire clay, lime rock, salt, sulphur, sandstone, and other minerals have been found. The county contains two prosperous cities. Parawon and Cedar, about fifteen miles apart, and several settlements. The county seat is at Parowan, where there is a fine brick court house, which is not yet completely finished. At the same place is a fine district schoolhouse. The people are quiet, industrious, thrifty and economical, and will become wealthy rapidly, iron manufactures once established.
PAROWAN, the county seat, is situated in the eastern portio nof the county. The city was first incorporated February 6, 1851; a charter being granted by the Legislative Assembly of the Provisional Government of the State of Deseret, subsequently ratified by the Legislative Assembly of Utah. Exceptions being taken, the charter was abrogated and a new one granted February 13th, 1868. The city has an area of six square miles; elections are held biennially. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in farming, stock- raising and bee culture. Here are located a grist mill, saw mill and tannery. There are two churches, Latter-day Saints, J. E. Dalley and W. Mitchell bishops, and Presbyterian, U. C. Cert pastor; four schools and four school-
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houses, three district and one Presbyterian, with an average attendance of 240. There is one library, the property of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association; three societies, the Female Relief Society, Pri- mary and Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associa- tions.
CEDAR CITY was incorporated in 1852 and has an area of six square miles; elections are held biennally. Farming and stock-raising are the principal industries of the inhabitants. The town has a tannery and grist mill located here. It has a Latter-day Saints' church, C. J. Arthur, bishop; and a Presbyterian, with U. C. Cert as pastor; three schools and three schoolhouses, Latter-day Saints and Presbyterian, with an average attend- ance of 200; also a Female Relief Society, Primary, and Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations. It has a daily mail. Cedar City has had a peculiar career. The town has been moved twice and still is very prosperous and bids fair to run away with its more populous neighbor on the north. Its proximity to the coal beds and iron mines, in the development of both, will assist its more rapid growth materially.
PARAGOONAH, located about five miles from Parowan, is the most north- ern settlement in Iron County. It was first settled by Bishop W. H. Dame, Charles Hall, Job Hall, B. Watts and C. Y. Webb in 1851, but owing to Indian troubles was abandoned. In 1853 it was permanently settled by W. H. Dame, O. B. Adams, J. R. Robinson, J. Topham, B. Watts, Job Hall, Charles Hall, M. Ensign, R. E. Miller and William Barton. It now numbers about forty families who are chiefly engaged in farming and stock-raising. There is one church. Latter-day Saints, William E. Jones, bishop; one district school with an average attendance of fifty; also a Relief Society Primary, and Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations. They have a daily mail, Sundays excepted.
SUMMIT issituated about six miles southwest of Parowan, the county seat; the citizens are principally engaged in farming. There is one church, Latter- day Saints, S. C. Hulet, bishop; one school and one schoolhouse, district, with an average attendance of twenty-five; there is also a Relief Society, Primary, and Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associ- ations.
KANARA was formerly part of Washington County, but in subsequent changes made in the boundary line, became a part of Iron County. It is the southernmost town in the county and is situated on the rim of the Great Basin. From this point the streams flow both to the north and to the south. A two-hours' ride takes one from Kanara in the temperate, down into a semi-tropical country. It is a substantial village. Has one church, Latter-day Saints, and one school, district. Primary, Relief, Young Ladies' and Young Men's Improvement organizations are here also.
There are a number of small settlements scattered through the county, such as Iron Springs, Johnson's Fort, Deseret Springs, Iron City, Hamil- ton's Fort and a few other very small places whose inhabitants are engaged in stock-raising and farming.
JUAB COUNTY.
Is one of the most noted and yet smallest counties in the Territory, in point of population. On its north are Utah and Toocle Counties, on its cast, Utah and Sanpete Counties, south, Sanpete and Millard, and west, the State of Nevada. By far the greater portion of the county is composed of desert, and like Box Elder and Tooele, Beaver and Iron, incorporates a considerable area of the so-called Great American Desert. The populated
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section is less than one-third of the area of the county. The richest mining districts so far discovered in the Oquirrh Range, are situated in Juab County, the famous Mammoth being among the properties. There is a perceptible break, or decrease in the height of the Wasatch Range, where it reaches Juab County, which is the more noticeable because of the elevation it attains it Utah, the county adjoining on the north. Mount Nebo, the highest point on the western side of the Wasatch-11,999 feet above sea level-is situated in this county, at a point where Sanpete, Utah and Juab Counties join. South of this point is Salt Creek Canyon, and below this canyon.the range is much lower and sustains a growth of cedar which does not appear on the north in anything like so marked a degree. The character of the range thus changed, remains the same all the way south to the rim of the Basin. The mountains being lower, the canyons fewer, and the ravines less rugged, the snowfall does not last as long and the water supply is conse- quently limited. The evil of Juab County is that of all southern Utah. There are endless acres of the fairest farming land in the world, were there but enough water for irrigating purposes. Juab, however, is largely com- pensated for the absence of water, by the existence of boundless mineral deposits of great variety. Her iron deposits have for years, and to-day do supply smelters with iron ore for fluxing. The Mammoth Mine is unex- celled. The contribution of Juab to the mineral wealth of the Territory is exceeded perhaps by one or two counties only. Gold, silver, iron and cop- per in inexhaustible quantities are found; beside which are excellent marble quarries, salt wells and salt mines, and a vein of gypsum, the equal of which is not in the Territory. No county in the Territory is more for- ward in this respect. The Utah Central and the Salt Lake and Western, both broad-gauge, run through the county, the former passing all the farm- ing sections, the latter tapping the rich mining section. The Sevier River cuts through a small portion of the county, but is valueless to Juab for agricultural purposes. The county is singularly prosperous and free from debt, and makes a showing, financially-as regards taxes-not inferior to the best. Nephi is the county seat, and though it has a population bordering on 2,000, several attempts to secure its incorporation as a city have been futile because of executive objection. However, there is no suffering because of the refusal. Juab promises to become one of the most important counties in the Territory, if not on account of agriculture, because of the vastness of its mineral resources. It is not improbable that systematic artesian well-boring may bring under cultivation much of the desirable land now tempting the farmers, while water-saving facilities may do much more.
NEPHI, the county seat, is located at the extreme eastern part of the county, almost at the foot of Mount Nebo, and directly west of Salt Creek . Canyon. The town is on the line of the Utah Central Railroad, and is filled with a thriving population whose principal industry is farming. Consider- ยท able enterprise is exhibited by the citizens, and whenever attention is turned . in a particular direction, the object sought to be accomplished is realized without any possible delay. The salt wells existing in Salt Creek Canyon are owned and operated by citizens in Nephi, who also have flour, lumber, and other mills.
LEVAN, located about seven miles east of Juab, was first settled by a small company from Chicken Creek, in 1868. The principal industry of the inhabitants is farming. There is one church-Latter-day Saints; Neils Aagaard, bishop. The town has a daily mail, Sundays excepted.
MONA is situated some eight miles north of Nephi, and at the base of Mount Nebo, a little north of west. The Utah Central runs past this town. which contains about 300 inhabitants. The people of this place have had a
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severe struggle for community existence against lawless classes, but have succeeded in enforcing respect and are now beginning to prosper. They have one church, Latter-day Saints, which is also used as a schoolhouse. John M. Hawes is bishop. Farming is the occupation of the people generally. Daily mail.
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