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Show MANTI. /T^AXTI is pleasantly situated on tbe eastern side of Sanpete Valley, about the center of the county, 125 miles south from Salt Lake City, and surrounded by broad, fertile fields that comprise a portion of the great "Granary of Utah." The altitude is a little over 5,000 feet, the climate very mild, seldom below zero in winter and never above 100 degrees in August, and the location so protected by mountain ranges as to be perpetually free from cyclones, hurricanes and destructive storms of the elements of an overcharged electrified atmosphere. The site stands upon an alluvial cone overlooking the winding river, the rolling harvest fields and the great expanse of tillable area to the north and the south, commanding a view for many miles in either direction. No more suitable spot could have been selected by the pioneers to found this primitive city of central Utah. On the evening of November 20, 1819, the little band of noble sons and daughters camped on the banks of the clear mountain stream, now rushing through the center of this city, and calmly yet resolutely surveyed the bleak, uninviting desert, out of which they expected to carve homes for themselves and children. The anticipations were certainly anything but pleasant, for the colonists were in the midst of an overwhelming host of Indians, who stood ready, on the slightest provocation, to massacre every man, woman and child and blot ou£ all indicaMirned to tions of civilization before even a farrow w; on and make an irrigating ditch. Winter was col / 1 1 houses could not be constructed before the • were |
