| Show Uinta Springs killed to make Fountain Green On October 4th ten whose dexths where four Manti men were two more men were killed at Manti were attributed to this war Brigham Young ordered all settlers to fort-up into larger communities Sanpete settlers numbering 765 gathered in the Manti Fort In the grants arrived in Sanpete Settlement Teft Spring in the ground ordered side and the helped valley the 1ived decisions God where by fleeing to Manti they harvested settlers where the They they found potatoes then no were room in fort During and City fall of 1853 some 200 Danish emiThey first stopped at Allred Winter at were Fort Manti made in Sanpete water to of 1853-54 regarding Valley Here all representative of people number the to wit 950 future in the of important of the Behunin the Mormon Kingdom sold Church his of farm Calif Edwards Men from Manti builtone and one-half acre fort at Ephraim astride the irrigation ditches to the Behunin farm When Fort Ephraim was completed Behunin and his family returned to Pine Creek along with other pioneers from Manti to Ephraim For Ephraim and For Manti were both enlarged during the 1854-56 period These were the only settlements in Sanpete Valley until 1859 when Mt Pleasant and Spring City were resettled and Fairview Moroni and Fountain Green were settled of the fort Gunnison The onto their who lots remained in 1860 1854 the land Plans for the and By 1864 and future Ephraim adjacent west Ephraim which was Ephraim Precinct water from Canal Ephraim modification of the Plat of the Lake The Ephraim Townsite was square Large acreages of land dividing were in moved the year out of settlement On June claiming all Creek people of to the the had five townsite Pioneer followed was organized Canyon to Willow Brigham Young City of Zion as used in Salt three fourths ofmile were designated not worth fenced irrigated fields Four and other located north the was Cemetery In the settlement of Sanpete all land divisions were The Plat of the City of Zion advocated church controlled These small that small holdings were best for the people -121 |
