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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 439 and painstaking farmers to harvest bouncrops of all the cultivated cereals, plants and grasses. The area of tillable land is being increased every year by reclamation from desert aridity and the the industrious tiful domains of grain fields surrounding Gunnison include an immense acreage, making an oasis of wealth in the desert of primitive barrenness and native sagebrush. Gunnison citizens participated in the Indian wars and her sons did not lose the patriotic spirit when the President of the United States called for troops to defend the Nation and protect the people's honor. When the first call for volunteers in the war with Spain was published six young men proffered their services and were accepted. E. H. Olark entered Torrey's Rough Riders regiment, Adelbert W. Whiting enlisted in the cavalry, and Ezra Funk, John W. Beemus, Leo N. Gledhill and Halie M. Madsen chose the artillery. Others equally patriotic were unable to pass a satisfactory medical examination, or the recruits from Gunnison would have been double. The town, however, is entitled to the honor of furnishing more men than any settlement of similar population in the county. A mission school was opened in May, 1881, under the auspices of the Presbyterian church, Miss Mary Crowell of Ohio being the teacher. small house on Mrs. Christensen's lot was used until the present lot was purchased A and chapel completed in 1884. Miss M. E. Campbell succeeded Miss Crowell, and was followed by Miss Clara San ford. In September, 1884, Mrs. M. M. Green took charge of the school and has since been assisted by her daughter Alice. Mrs. Green has been the teacher, preacher, physician and benefactress of Gunnison since her coming, and has proven an earnest, conscientious worker in the cause of humanity. The school has been |
