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Show 58 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS ges. He had been assisted in his labors by Apostle Franklin D. Richards, who was traveling through southern Utah on public business, and returned north with Colonel Smith. Two days later Lieutenant- Colonel William H. Kimball, who had also rendered important service in Iron County, came back from the south. He and his men had been followed closely and watched by Indians for several days, but heed-ing the Governor's instructions they had not taken the offensive, and the savages, seeing that they were prepared, did not attack thdm. As a means of defense and an example to other settlements during the Indian troubles of 1853, the authorities at Salt Lake City decided to build a " Spanish Wall" around the town. The project was first mentioned by President Young in a meeting of the Bishops held at the Council House in the latter part of August. The City Council then took up the matter and the same month a committee consisting of Albert Carrington, Parley P. Pratt and Franklin D. Richards submitted a report to the council sug-gesting the line of the proposed wall around the city. It was to stand twelve feet high and be six feet through the base, tapering to a thickness, half way up, of two- and- a- half feet, and preserving the same thickness to the summit. Gates and bastions were to " be placed at suitable intervals, and the wall, which was to be built entirely of earth, was to be about nino miles long. It was never completed, but fragments of the portion finished may yet be seen on the north-ern outskirts of the city, a reminder of the early days that witnessed its erection. Subsequently many of the outlying settlements of the Territory built simi-lar walls for their protection. |