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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 correctness 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 is Slsily accounted for in the difference of driving, noon halting and camping with two vehicles, over so long a distance in even the same com-pany.”IBoon after President Young’s party returned to Utah, more farming land was surveyed at Fort Lim hi, anj an additiou made to the fortj and at a meeting held May 27,1857, it wag 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 i the following winter) was laid oft by President Smith and others two days I later (May 29th).June 14, 1S57, President Smith again left for his home in Utah, leaving Thomas Bingham in charge at Fort JLimhi during his absence. He returned Oct. 22nd following, and then remained with the colony until it was broken up the following spring.A pretty good crop of wheat and other grain was raise 1 in the fall of 1857, which In fact was the only crop of any consequence raised by the brethren while oil that mission,.On the 25th of February, 185S, while several of the brethren were busily engaged in mowing hay, hauling timber, etc., a large party of Bannock and Shoshone Indians(many of whom lived around the fort, and had previouslybeen very friendly) made a sudden break upon the herd and drove off most of the stock belocging to the fort, at the same kiEting Geo. McBride and | James Miller, and wounding President Thos. S. Smith, Fountain Welch, L. W4 Shurtliff, Oliver Robinson and 3 Andrew Quigley. A man named J. H. Powell, who came into the FiatHead country with Geo. Stevens* surveying party, and was afterwards in the employ of persons under. Mr. Burr, late U. S- surveyor in Utah, was with the Indians and assisted them in plundering, w inding and killing the brethren. ™Elder Thomas Corless, one of the Sal*, mon River missionaries, in describing this Indian outrage, says that he anu a number of other brethren were at the fort when the aiarm was given that the Indians were in the act of stealing the herd,comprising the cowf. 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. Rosel, and were endeavoring to head off the Block, when Indians to the number of one hundred and fifty or more surrounded them and commenced shoot lug with guns and bow a and arrows. Thu brethren, seeing the overwhelming number of the eneruy} soon began to retreat towards the fort, but the Indians tried to cut them off, anil the brethren were oompK lJed to fight their way through the ranks of the savages, while the. bullets and arrows were flying thick and fast; all
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Salt Lake City Deseret Weekly
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sat, Mar 28, 1891
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