Show UTAH HAWAIIAN COLONY josi cPA tooele thoele co utah may 18 1898 in travels throughout the of the saints I 1 have at reached the interesting little colony known as joaeph situated in P mull valley in tooele county utah abb the border of the great american ef lert the place olace to is thirty miles from 0 grantsville Grants ville and la Is reached by passing p pound ground the horth end and of the tange of mountains which separate tooele and rush bush valleys from skull 3 galley the latter which to la separated 1 from the desert proper by the cedar brange on the west extends north and mouth couth for a distance of about forty miles its average width to is nearly twelve miles on the north it opens out into the desert immediately west went of the great salt lake most of the area of this valley consists of salt marshes or alkali flato bats which extend up irom from the like lahero on tte north through nearly the t entire valley but diminishes in 10 L tread tb as it approaches the south it aws named skull valley at an early lay day from the fact that a number of human skulls were found on its barren at first these skulls were sup ped d to belong to some of the anfor nuts nate emigrants who in 1846 at V attempted to cross the desert in the ill III fated ata hastings company but later feu oppositions are to the effect that they ere are indian remains jett to bleach on the he desert t josepa to Is situated on the east side of ahe valley where the lands slope from ane ne base of tile the mountains on the east 9 to 0 the center of the valley westward al in early utah days the late wm win H jHoo hooper por had a ranch here which subsequently passed into the hands of jo john quincy knowlton and thus it I 1 s became known as an the knowlton 1 the knolon family anda and a vew ew others who had located at different points in the valley where there were vere springs ur or small streams of water were whereat at length organized into a brauch branch of the church and existed as such as a lart rrt of the grantsville Grants ville ward for several yearn neatly the ranch was pur based by john F r rich who in 1889 sold it to the josepa company which now owns it it was at the springs on which josepa now is located that the lamented hastings company ot 1846 separated epa rated the donner party parly which atter afterwards wards perished in the sierra nevada moun mountains tins taking a southern oute aute around the desert while the emigrants under mr hastings took a northwesterly course across skull valley pawing pausing over the cedar range of mountains through what is in known to this day as hastings pass near the divide io in this pass on the easier 0 slope elope Is the bedlam spring a mere seepage of water gushing out from the ground which was the lost last water the poor emigrants found for a distance of eighty six alx miles prom from the top of the cedar range pilot peak I 1 in j northeastern i nevada a Is ii visible and the distance across the deceptive desert does not seem to be very great although it is nearly miles I 1 it is su supposed opposed the hastings company in louring looking across in their eagerness to reach toe tibe coast by the shortest road possible thought they could easily cross in a day and started out with the expectation of reaching the lofty mountain moui tain peak beyond without much difficulty and it is also supposed that they were encouraged to make the attempt by the he illusions of ponds of water loloh c the wanderer anthe on the desert appear frequently and eoma times appear to be within a few hundred d red yards of who one stands when in reality there may be no DO water of any description within a radius of fifty miles besides this deceptive mir rage the desert possesses pass esies esses another illusive peculiarity here and there on the desk dea I 1 level and barren surface grows grown miniature bushes of greasewood and other salty vegetation which by the singular properties of certain atmospheric condition are magnified to the eyes of the traveler to such an extent that they in the distance appear like large trees or fine groves or scour according ding to the shape of the bush like some other large object but in approaching them they seem to diminish and at length the weary wanderer discovers di acovera that there the re is neither water nor shady groves the whole is in simply delusions of the desert the members of the hastings company which started out irom from jokull valley in 1846 nearly perished before reaching the other side of the great desert and ana ye beirs iris afterwards their bones were f found bleaching in the sui on also many of their wagons yokes campine equipage not a speak of the remains of animals we were re discovered strewn along the track made by the company this track to Is still visible and cata can be traced without difficulty clear across the desert amert tue too falness of the gospel 41 was first introduced to the natives of the sand islands in 1850 by george Q cannou cannon and others but emigration of hawaiians Ha Hawaii ans from tile the islands being prohibited by law jaw a gathering place known as laie was in due cour course i os of time 1865 established on th eisland of oahu bahu to which many of the natives who had bad embraced the fullness of the gospel gathered and where there la is still a prosperous community of lat tor ter day saints about the year 1868 a native by the nam e of napela the very first hawaiian baptized by elder cannon on the sand sandwich island by special permission visited vi sited utah and on OB his hia return to the islands gave a very favorable report of what he be had seen at the headquarters of the he church in 1873 two Ha hawaiian wailan boys were brought to utah also by special permission one named kiha by george and the other cansina Kah Kan aoa sina by william king the latter remained with elder king for many years and is now a resident of the josepa colony the other to is in salt lake city the next sandwich islander who received receive J permission to go to utah was Kaulai namo ku an intelligent native and a fluent speaker who in 1888 89 filled a very successful mission to the natives of new zealand he is the only hawaiian who has been sent on a foreign mission from the headquarters of the church this man first came to utah in 1875 accompanying elder F A mitchell Mi who returned from a mission to the blands Kaulai was given employment am on the temple block where he endeavored to learn the carpenters erPs trade and a bouse was built for him in the nineteenth ward when elder eider harvey H cluff returned from one of his missions to the islands in 1882 he brought three families eight s us of Hawaii hawaiians ans nith ith him to biake city these also settled in the nineteenth ward in the meantime the law against the emigration of natives from the islands was repealed or modi modified fled and since then a number of hawaiian saints desirous of of gathering to the headquarters of the church emigrated to utah accompanying different elders who returned from their missions most if not all of these natives settled in the nineteenth ward iu ia the immediate neighborhood fuere Kaulai first located As the immigration or of hawaiians Hawaii ans increased the question of finding suitable employment for their behalf was sprung and deliberations in them were entered into by the first denoy dency of the church who appointed hinted elders W W cluff harvey karloy ak H cluff and P F A mitchell Mito hell a special committee to examine different locations in utah with a view of finding a suitable track of land on which to settle the Ha hawaiian wallan saints the choice of the committe fell upon the so go called Rno knowlton ranch in skull valley about seventy miles southwest of salt bait lake city A company was waa consequently formed and duly incorporated according to the laws of the territory which purchased the ranch and stepa were immediately taken to remove the hawaiians Hawaii ans to it teams and the necessary help were furnished by the saints of tooele thoele county to move the people and their effects and the day of august 1889 witnessed the arrival of forty six hawaiians Hawaii anu ans and one white man who was with them besides beside three missionaries harvey H cluff P F A mitchell Mito hell and ellhu barrell who had bad been called to assist and direct the labors of the Hawaii hawaiians ans at the ranch which has been named josepa jose pa the hawaiian for joseph A townsite was immediately surveyed houses commenced and other improvements made and before the close of the year 1889 the inhabitants of the new colony were quite comfortably gathered in their new home elder harvey arvey H cluff remaining in charge of the colony until the fall fail of 1890 when he was succeeded by elder wm king who presided until his bis death which occurred on the day of february 1892 the next day elder harry H cluff was called to assume his lormer former responsibilities bill ties as president of the colony and true to his characteristics te teri as a minute man he immediately proceeded to jaseps jose pa to take charge anew his labors from that time on seems to have been crowned with success many improvements have been made iu in the settle settlement mem much new land has been brought under cultivation and the prospects of making the colony a success are perhaps better now than ever before most moat of the hawaiian saints seem to be satisfied with their location althou b h so different in near latall respects so ao far as natural facilities are concerned to their former home on the islands of the sa elder cluff Js is assisted in his bis labors by elders bain E woolley and a brother hanson hansen who have been called as to labor in the colony two other white men are employed at present while employment la Is furnished all the natives who can and are willing to work there area are ft number of good singers among the natives in the colony and also some who can produce in music A number of these on invitation from president cluff visited the mission house where I 1 stopped last vv evening ening and for the first time lime in my life I 1 had bad the pleasure plea eure of listening to hawaiian music there are at present about eighty natives tin in the settlement the majority of whom live in the ten houses bouses already erected anthe on the townsite town eite the rest in the old ranch buildings there is also an indian village in skull valley about ten miles south of the hawaiian where the inhabitants are tilling the soil successfully building houses and learning how bow to live as am white people those these indians are nearly ail member ij of the church ANDREW JENSON |