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4‘The compass courses and odometer readings and calculations were made by Territorial Surveyor General Je-se W. Fox. Two brass odometers wore used, and it is highly creditable to the correct^ ne*s of the instruments and the care and accuracy of Mr. Fox, that they differed only about one-half a mile in the whole 379 miles, which fa Asily accounted for in the difference of driving, noon halting and camping with two vehicles, over so long a distance in even the same company.”Soon after President Young’s party returned to Utah* more farming laud was surveyed at Fort Xiimhi, ani an additiou made to the fort; and at a meeting held May 27„1857, it was decided to buitd another fort on the first creek to the north. This second fort (where a few houses subsequently were built, and several of the brethren spent the following winter) was laid oft by President Smith and others two days later (May 29th).June 14, 1S57, president Smith again left for his home in Utah, leaving Thomas Bingham in charge at Fort Xiimhi during his absence. He returned Oct. 2ind following, and then remained with the colony until it was broken up the foliowaug spring.A pretty good crop of wheat and other grain was raise i in the fall of I57, which In fact was the only crop of any consequence raised by the brethren while on that mission.been very friendly) made a sudden break upon the herd and drove off most of the stock belocging to the fort, at th« same killing Geo. McBride and James Miller, and wounding President Tho. 8. Smith, Fountain Welch, L. W« flhurtliff, Oliver Robinson and Andrew Quigley. A man named J. H. Powell, who came into the Fiat Head country with Geo. Stevens* surveying party j and was afterwards In the employ of persons under- Mr. Burr, • late IT. B- surveyor in Utah, was with the Indians and assisted them in plundering, wmmding and killing the brethren. ^Elder Thomas Corless, one of the Sal*, moD River missionaries, in describing tins Indian outrage, says that he anu a number of other brethren were at the fort when the alarm was given that the Indians were in the act of stealing the herd,comprising the cows and oxen belonging to the settlers, which were grazing on the low hills a short distance east of the fort. Immediately a party of ten men (nine on foot and one on horseback) started out to assist the herders (Brothers Andrew Quigley and O. RoshI, and were endeavoring to head off the stock, when Indians to the number of one hundred and fifty or more surrounded them and commenced shooting with guns and bows and arrows. The brethren, seeing Use overwhelming number of the enemv.
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Salt Lake City Deseret Weekly
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Mar 28, 1891
Page 10
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