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Show FAYETTE. Fayette is a small settlement in the southwestern part of Sanpete county, live miles from Gunnison on Warm creek. The colony was begun in '(31 by James Bartholomew, James C. Mell-or and others, and was known for many years as Warm Creek. The few colonists built houses, constructed irrigation ditches and had a mill in operation, run by Anthony Metcalf, when the Black Hawk war forced them to abandon the place. In '66 the homes were deserted and no effort was made to '68, when the place was again occupied. The colony now numbers about 300 people, devoted to farming and stockraising. There is but one store, kept by James Bartholomew, and a schoolhouse, church and general buildings of a rural district. The business of the settlement principally goes to Gunnison. Philip Dack is Justice of the Peace and Edwin J. Mellor Constable. The Latter-day Saints' ward is superintended by Bishop John Bartholomew. Irrigation interests are protected by the Fayette Canal company, incorporated March 12, 1896, with a capital stock of $2,310, fully paid up by the return until co-operation ownership plan. The settlement and the pects are realized Dover is really a part of Fayette been discontinued. If present pros- of postoffice has much of this section, including the farms and homes will be included in a mammoth reservoir for irrigating a large area lying west of the Sanpitch mountains in Millard county. The citizens of Fayette and Dover are typical frontiersmen, hard workers and |
