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Show 68 land system be extended over Utah with such modifications 1 ""• " ~ ~ 1 as the peculiarities of that territory might require. About a year later an act was passed authorizing the ap- 2 pointment of a surveyor- general for Utah. In July 1255 David H. Burr arrived in Salt Lake City to enter upon the duties of that office. In his report covering a year18 work, he wrote: " The unsettled state of the country makes it necessary to keep a constant watch over camp and animals, compelling the surveyor to employ, besides the usual assistants, men to herd the animals by day and stand guard by night .... Many of the corner posts have been removed and the mounds <* e~ stroyed; this is done in some instances by the cattle, but more frequently, I regret to say, by persons either with some evil intent or through wanton mischief ... I hope, however, when the settlers learn how important it is to them to perpetuate these corners that they will see that they are preserved. Unfortunately at present most of 1 House Executive Documents, 33 Cong., 1 Seso., vol. pt. I, Doc. 1, p. 12 ( 690). 2 Bancroft, Hubert Howe, History of Utah, p. 4S5. |
