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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 13" A company of about fifty families from Salt Lake City and Centerville was organized and started late in the fall for Sanpitch Valley. The commanders were Isaac Morley, Seth Taft and Charles Shumway, who represented the civil and ecclesiastical authorities and Nelson Higgins the military. Among the original pioneers were the following men, some being accompanied by D. B. Huntington, Barney Ward, John Titus Billings, G. W. Bradley, Albert Petty, their families: Lowry, Si\, O. S. Cox, Albert Smith, Jezreel Taylor, Azariah Smith, Shomaker, Cyrenus H. Abram Washburn, John D, William Potter, Gardner Potter, James Brown, Joseph Allen, M. D. Hamilton, William Richey, Harrison Fugate, Sylvester Wilcox, Gad Yale, John Carter, Isaac Behunnin, William Mendenhall, Edwin Whiting, William Tubbs, John Hart, John Baker, John Elmer, John Butterfield, Amos Gustin, John Cable and W. K. Smith. The company cleared roads, built bridges and successfully passed through Salt Creek canyon without any great hardships, and moved to the south in quest of a suitable location. Some wanted to pitch camp at Shumway Springs, but better counsel prevailed, and the present site of Manti was selected as the frontier town of central and southern Utah. The first camp was made on City Creek on the evening of November 22, 1849, and tem- Chase, Isaac Case, Sylvester Hulet, porary houses made of wagon boxes, comprised the town. In a few days the snow began falling and continued almost incessantly until the ground was covered to a depth of three feet or more, and the colony changed quarters to the south side of temple hill, where some families had dugouts, while others occupied their improvised wagons and tents. That winter was most severe and the snow greater depth than ever was known fell to to the Indians, a and |
