Identifier: historyofutahcom01whit (find matches)
Title: History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson), 1855-1931
Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormons Mormons Mormon Church Mormons
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : G. Q. Cannon & Sons Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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raised to the boil-ing point. We traveled for about fifteen miles after coming down intothe valley; the latter parts of the distance the soil being unfit foragricultural purposes. Returning from this jaunt, which evidently took in the neigh-borhood of the Warm and Hot Springs, they found their wagonsencamped in the valley, four or five miles below Emigration Canyon. On the morning of the 23rd, after despatching messengers tomeet the President and inform him of what had been seen and done,the camp removed to the south branch of City Creek, near the EighthWard or Washington Square, not far from where the MethodistChurch and its palatial neighbor the Hotel Knutsford now stand.A meeting was there called. Orson Pratt prayed and dedicated theland and camp to the Lord, and he and Willard Richards addressedthose assembled. Various committees were then appointed, andpreparations at once made for putting in crops. The plantingseason being virtually past, no time was to be lost if they hoped to
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HISTORY OF UTAH. 331 reap any results from their labors. Within two hours from the timethey arrived on City Creek, ground was broken a short distance fromcamp—in the very business heart of Salt Lake City—and three plowswere kept going during the rest of the day. George W. Brown.William Carter and Shadrach Roundy ran the first furrows plowed bywhite men in Salt Lake Valley.* Owing to the extreme dryness ofthe soil, plowing w^as at first very difficult, and more than one plow-share was broken in the hard sun-baked earth. But a dam havingbeen placed in the creek, and the surrounding soil well flooded, thework was rendered comparatively easy. At 3 oclock p. m. thepioneer thermometer indicated 96° F. A thunder shower swept overfrom the west that afternoon, but scarcely enough rain fell to lay thedust. A heavier shower fell next evening. These rains were particularly welcome and gratifying, not onlyon account of the prevailing heat and dryness, but from the fact thatthe pioneers had re

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