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Show 241 in tbe deserts. Why else would they be leaving their homes and heading south? There had been no official policy changes since the "Sebastopol" speech of March 21. Very little is known of the events transpiring at the Snake Creek farm while Dame was establishing the mission in Meadow Valley. It is known the men successfully planted and cultivated (for the time being) fifty or sixty acres of ground in the vicinity of present-day Garrison, Utah. To do this required the installation of ditches and other improvements. We also know the settlers were somewhat plagued by cold weather and bands of marauding Indians. Little else has been discovered for the period while Bunnell presided at the camp. David Edwin Bunnell was forty-nine years old at the time of his call to the White Mountain Expedition. The Springfield, New Jersey native had been a staunch and faithful Latter-day Saint since I831. Much of his early life was spent in Michigan and later in Nauvoo where be witnessed the persecutions of the Saints. He came to Utah in I852, settling in Provo where he practiced his trade of carpentry. The Meadow Valley settlement was working hard to bring the water from the creek to the farming ground. As the leveling and digging continued on May 27, President Dame with seven others started south to further explore Grand Echo Canyon. Four miles into the canyon, Dame camped for the night. On the 28th the exploring party pushed down the canyon again to the location of present day Caliente. But instead of continuing south as Martineau had done previously, Dame struck east going up a side canyon. This narrow canyon was Clover Valley Wash, an extension of Clover [Badged Valley where Hopkins was Just now arriving by the established trail to begin his settlement. They followed up Clover Creek which Dame reported to be "a good stream" in places. More stands of ash and cottonwood were also found in this canyon. Their march took |