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Show INDIAINOLA. Imliaiiola is situated in the northern end of Sanpete county and occupies that high mountain retreat known as Thistle valley. The country was donated to the Sanpitch Indians by President Brigham Young- on behalf of the Mormon church, and has been held by them as a perpetual home. In '73 Ilyium Seely and William II. Seely homesteaded two quarter sections of land in the valley and began stockraising. The next year John Spencer was sent in by the Mormon church as a missionary, to organize a ward and preside as bishop. A few years later Mormon V. Selman, Hyrum N. Tidwell and David D. Tanner came in and took up homestead claims. The settlement was then fairly organized with church and schools and David D. Tanner established a dairy and cheese factory. Mormon V. Selman became an Indian interpreter and public official and at present is Justice of the Peace, road supervisor, school trustee and presiding elder of the ward. A store was started "by Richard B. Spencer, who is the present merchant and general implement dealer. The Rio Grande Western railroad was constructed through the valley in '90 and connected the settlement with the commercial world. The settlement has a population of about 200 people engaged in farming, stockraising and woolgrowing. The Indians are quiet, peaceable and industrious, pursuing their daily avocations in the same manner as their white neighbors. Peter Peterson, the present bishop, was appointed in 92 and serves the people with perfect satisfaction, being an earnest and conscientious worker. The location is delightful, the climate suitable for dairying, farming and stockraising and the surroundings are inviting to lovers of rural life. The present school population numbers fifty-four and the valuation of school property is $275 for house, grounds and furnish? ings. |
