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Show 98 Of the three farms originally started by Dr. Hunt 1 for the Utahs, Superintendent Forney gave speoifio accounts in his report of 1858. Upon the Corn Creek farm in Millard County eighty aores of wheat were raised by the Pah- vants. The San- Pete farm, well watered and well timbered with a sufficiency of good grazing land, oontained one hundred and ninety- five acres of land under cultivation," with a prospective crop of twelve hundred bushels of wheat, besides snail quantities of corn and potatoes. The Spanish Fork farm he found to be an object of oontroverey with the neighboring numerous Mormon population in Spanish Fork City. " Years ago," wrote Forney, " at the request of the then superintendent ( Brigham Young), Agent Hunt oommenced the Indian reservation preoisely where indicated - has made improvements from time to time at a cost of from $ 15,000 to $ 30,000, and now, for the first time, is required to give an account of his'stewardship' to the inhabitants of Spanish Fork City. I am clearly 1 See Chapter 71, p. |