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Jacob Hamblin, a narrative of his personal experience, as a frontiersman, missionary to the Indians and explorer, [microform] disclosing interpositions of Providence, severe privations, perilous situations and remarkable escapes. Fifth book of the faith-p - Page 77 |
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Show CITY OF ST. GEORGE FOUNDED. 75 myself, I was willing to wait for my pay until the resurrection of the just. On my return to the Mountain Meadows, I found my family out of flour, and the roads blocked with snow, so that a team could not get in nor out of the Meadows. I had left my family with plenty of food, but they had lent it to their neighbors. I was under the necessity of hauling both fuel and flour for them on a hand sled. CHAPTER XII. MANY SAINTS CALLED TO SETTLE SOUTHERN UTAH DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD ON THE SANTA CLARA NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING ANOTHER VISIT ACROSS THE COLORADO A NEW ROUTE MOQUIS INDIANS PRAY FOR RAIN THEIR PRAYERS ANSWERED THREE INDIANS RETURN WITH US THEIR DEVOTION AND REVERENCE- - THEY VISIT SALT LAKE CITY. IT was nearly two years before we made another trip to the Moquis towns. Many of the brethren appeared to think that no good could be accomplished in that direction. In the autumn of 1861, many Saints were called from the north to form settlements in Southern Utah. The city of St. George was founded, and settlements were extended, so as to occupy the fertile spots along the waters of the Rio Virgin and Santa Clara. During the winter of 1861- 2 there was an unusual amount of . rain- fall. About the middle of February, it rained most of the time for a number of days, and the Santa Clara Creek rose so high that the water spread across the bottom from bluff to bluff, and became a turbulent muddy river. Our little farms and the cottonwood trees that grew on the bottom lands were disappearing. The flood wood sometimes accumulated in a pile, and would throw the current of water |