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Show 246 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS All the settlers on the east side of the Provo River moved to Heber City. On the 25th and 26th of May a two days drill was ordered, and a sham battle was participated in on which occasion Col. Robert T. Burton called the troops into a hollow square. This being done Col. Burton said, " Now you are organized on a war footing, go to work and put out your guards and scouts, and protect yourselves.'' The previous winter had been a very severe one, and with deep snow in the mountains we did not expect that the Indians would come over so soon. FIRST INDIAN RAID. About the middle of May, 1866, a band of In-dians came over the mountains, no doubt in the night, the snow being crusted. They gathered up some forty or fifty head of stock on the east range, and drove them over no doubt while the snow was yet crusted. Wm. McDonald while hunting cattle came across the trail. Adjutant Wilkins and Lieuten-ant McDonald started with a posse of men in pursuit and reached the trail in the middle of the day. The snow being soft the horses plunged to their bellies and the expedition had to give up the chase and return home. Wm. Bradley Sessions who had a big family lost seven cows in this raid, the Indians taking all he had. This raid was made before the county militia was organized. For information I will describe the lay of the country. Three canyons leads from Provo Valley to the dividing ridge between said valley and the In-dian Reservation. The center one is Lake Creek |