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Show MORONI. Moroni is a pleasantly located city in north central Sanpete, eighteen miles from Manti, on the Sanpitch river and the Sanpete Valley railroad. This settlement was begun in the spring of '59 by Bishop G. W. Brad- Woolf, Isaac Morley, H. Gustin, G. H. Bradley, N. L. Christensen, a party of bold pioneers from Nephi, who selected the site because of its delightful situation and central point for the building up of a commercial city. N. L. Christensen's wives were the first women in Moroni. The first colonists were strong, determined men and women, who tunneled the snowbanks of Salt Creek canyon, working earnestly and without faltering for three days to clear a road through the canyon and across the divide into this chosen valley. They had none of the present home-making materials and were satisfied with constructing dugouts on the river bank, where gardens were planted, ditches constructed and preparations made for establishing a permanent and prosperous colony by observing the principles of ley, J. Niels Cummin gs and home co-operation. The high waters soon destroyed all fond anticipa- and practically robbed the settlers of the first year's crops by overflowing the fields and filling the irrigation ditches. But the early colonists of Utah, and especially of Sanpete county, were not baffled by misfortunes, and notwithstanding the loss of crops, the Moroni people were determined to succeed in erecting homes and conquering the desert. They elected Bishop Bradley captain of the town and organized for tions of early gardens |
