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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. settlers located upon their several making improvements according to and desires of individual families. city lots 79 and began their limited means census showed that children, while the entire county population was only 7<m, the settlers at Pleasant Creek supplying the number of 118. This little band of hardy pioneers battled Indians and grasshoppers and cared for visitors from Salt Lake City and militiamen from the north who tendered their services to guard the homes and herds of the settlers while they In October, 1853, the Manti contained 047 men, first city women and gathered their crops and hauled sufficient wood for winThough few in numbers they had a school taught by Mrs. Mary Whiting, a local theatrical troupe called "The Amateur Thespians," under the management and training of Mrs. Esther Smith, a small grist mill erected by Phineas W. Cook and sawmill built by Charles Shuiuway. A regular military organization was kept in readiness to repel Indian attacks and daily details were made by the commanding officer for sentinels at important ter. points. The entire valley was covered with a dense growth of sagebrush, which had to be cleared and burned before the fields could be prepared for irrigation and cultivation. Ditches were constructed to carry the water from under the co-operative city creek to the several fields The plan of a union of labor and division of interests. cows were herded on a tract, set apart and known as the range and a general community plan existed in every public effort. The division of fields remains at present, and in locating a particular tract of land the city water schedule describes it as in the "Danish Field," "Cane Field/' "Middle Field," "Old Field," "Brigham Field" or "Quarry Field," all having distinctive marks for botindarv lines. The natural flow of the creek was soon ap- |
