History of the Little Colorado River Valley: "This is my own, my native land"

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Salt Lake City Cottonwood Sugar House Joseph Morris Mine Lark Peter Hansen Gus Anderson Peter A. Peterson H. J. RaSJill).8sen J'. Molstrom J. N. Walker Robertson Herbert .Tame s N. Skouse n Edward Addams John Bushman' Peter Christofferson James L. Robertson Alfred Cluff Wm. Creer Ple.as. S .. radford (not known) Cottonwood It Ha.r r f ma n It Mill Creek " Draper Alpine, Utah Co. Lehi Lehi Alpine Provo Spanish Fork It Cedar Fort Lysander yton Charles Do.yton Peter Borup , . It Goshen Provo Provo Giles Holde n Wm. M. :Whipple Alma Iv€rson Hans Nielson Wm. C. l'furphy James'E. Shelley Lars Jenson Thoa. T. Riley li. B. Steele John McLaws Edwin L. Westover / . Pleasant Grove L, American Fork " Spanish Fork tt . I ( American Fork Tooele City, Tooele Co. Grant sville, To'oele, Co. (In the original, spaces were left by t he writer of the manu­ ript, as if he intended to fill in names of three or four more James E. Shelley, whose e appears in the above list, rsons. informed me verbally today ---Nov. 30, 1934---that te wever, mpa ny did not include a full fifty men, butwas perhaps the .th re e four short. The above list, it will be seen, includes t.he names 'forty-six men, and fifty-two.) 1 of mentions two women and four children, '. , ItAll did not t1W16r. arrive with the Nearly all brought The place \. was acme first seeds but company, a nd a to- .. , cam grai n, I uring the then called Allen's camp. March, a Dam si te was locatf:d and a di tch sur­ red; and the people of George Lake's company with' Allen's to put dam in the Li ttle Colorado Ri vera On the 28th, work wC'.s e omme nced in a -Dam of cottonwood, timbe.t· a:nd rock. While some were .pu, 11ng the dam. others were plowing; and on the 3rd of April, e wheat was own. All worked together, and put our provisions On the . gether and ate at one table. / This epril1..g there was about 50 acres of wheat sown and about acres of corn planted and some ,The 'water--, potatoes and ga.rde ns s got Oll t on them. , ' " sn , 27th or" The fall rains fr commenced about · _ ie •• .of July the it\ 15th of washed . July" which brought ThiS our Dc;4.m out. ..