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Show 268 horses, and twenty mules, while his own settlement ^Parowan) and Red Creek [Paragonah] together furnished only nine men, three wagons, and fifteen ani-nals." Farnsworth also asserted that Beaver had outfitted seventeen men for George W. Bean's expedition. "And in as much as we are called to sustain the Snake Creek mission," he cried to President Young, "and many of our brethren are without homes, and our fields which were made this season are unfenced,... I find great need of what substantial men I have left." In consequence of this, and from his interpretation of Young's instructions of June 21 (which he believed required only Dame and Iron County to support the Meadow Valley mission), he denied Colonel Dame's request and sent a letter to Meadow Valley, authorizing all those from Beaver to return home if they wished to do so, without being released by President Dame. The letter arrived late in June; but the men had a strong sense of duty, and, according to the company historian, "They all preferred remaining until they should be discharged by the same authority which had called them to the mission." At Desert Camp the men were occupied with the usual labors of establishing a settlement on virgin ground. They hauled wood to burn into charcoal for the blacksmith's forge, they cultivated and watered their fields, and they chased down their stray animals. June 27 was a Sunday, and services were held in the evening. Orson B. Adams and two others from the Cave Spring farm were present. It was here decided by President Smith to transfer ten men from Cave Springs to the larger settlement in Meadow Valley. Presumably, the order was taken back to his camp by Adams, but after two weeks without their presence in Meadow Valley, Smith and three others went down to Cave Springs to inspect the situation. All but ten of the original twenty-eight men had been released, and four of the ten were on furlough in the settlements at the time. The Cave Spring farm had been a failure; therefore, |
