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Show ,.//1 of ·Sunset. of Food---Bad Water, etc.) Sept. 17, 1876. (Dams, floods, crops; forts built). The dams placed in the river were frequently damaged by .' and on this date, a very high flood came and swept away the dam of and much d amage d Sunset's and Ballinger' is. Sunset. Obed , .Allen and the bushels of wheat this and some 75 season about corn; raised other camps but little corn, melons, etc. During the fall and winw t were tncut settlements the provisions, and had to t er , getting send teams back to' the settlements in Utah for breadstuff and seed, a distance of some 300 or 400 miles over a very rough and sandy road, .via Lee's Ferry. ,During the fall, the camps proceded to building of cottonwood logs Obed building of 'rock, Allen 'houses and frte. procured from the river bottom, Ballinger's of rock, <;(.00 Sunset XJmlJI removed some 2 miles further down north and built fort of driftwood During the summer, when the water in the river was low, it was logs. very brackish and a1most unfit to drink; and the camps found they could get better· water for culinary purpos5 Y diggiv wells. (Sortage . . fIO'ods;, / V . . (A grist mill r ece i ved ad set in operation) The camps sent men back to Lee's Ferry aftr a grist mill fur ni she d by the chu rch f.or the be nefit of the mission , which arri ved ,/ of •••••• , and was located at the d.am near Ballinger's, on the where a- suitable bulding for the purpose was erected; a.nd grinding In the inter 23rd of May, 1878. was commenced by water.power on the val before the erection of the mill, grinding' was done by horse pow er on a sma:ll portabie .bur r ,1877 . •. . •• , 187'7. In , (Obed Abandoned) consequence of the location of Obe d , being in a low swampy ' the to counsel of President D.E. WllS)J the chillS plac4 (contrary and fever raged fer some time with much se ve r f ty among the saints 'the're j and at this date, it was abando re d ; and Gerge Lake wi th a portion of his company joined with Ballinger's and.the remainder with Sunset and AI1n.· - . . . From the Southern States) Saints from the southern states u nder the leadership of N. P.· Bebee, mf s sd o na ry there, ar r I ve d here and j 01 ned wi th the iffeent camps. ,They were very destitute of clothing, p r ov La ions o.ni other necessaries t' am the camps already scantily supp Lf ed with t he ee things, ha.d to aupp.Iy them. 12J 1877. Nov. 1. compa"cy . . . of (Immigrants . . \ (Foodstuff raised) About sur'r i c t ent bread wC.s raised by the colony this .used with economy, to ,supply them u.ntl another harvest. '1877. se aao n, ifv (Woodruff'Founded.) . .the . at During the season, a settlement was started some 25 mil6s up river from Allen, which was called Woodruff, and the people ate one table and worked t.oge t.he r . : , (Statistics) far The as unset: statistical report f"or the year ending Dec. 31, .reported, gave the' followi ng number-s for the Seve'nt(s, 1877, aa m1 58i on: 28 families, 7 74 4 High Pri es t e , l? 34 7 child children under 8 years. 30 baptisms, 8 births, .members, ren 89 death. members received, 26 members rmoved, 1 bles&ed, lders Total of souls 136. |
