Show aninion ahk sacred place Is visited med he writes of the early earl y trials trial 9 and BUM of the saints Cor ss I 1 i I 1 K KANSAS SAS oi oar 23 1893 your readers will be pleasa cleasel pl easel l to n hear a little more about the old mobbing grounds of the missouri country wid aid of the times more than half a cei lury apo fut fr I 1 am now once more looking lookin over soma eoma of those waste places 1 wrote you on the isab dinst of my arrival at latin dayis davis county mo soon after which I 1 engaged a ii livery ivory and passed over the grand river into the promised land of adam ondi ab aba man which is five miles from Gal litan and about the same distance die tance from mill port and northeast of gallatin all three of those named places were particularly ticul arly interesting 55 56 yea years ago will mill port then a flourishing little town with stores groceries etc is now turned into a wilderness only one house rid and farm marks the forsaken town awl and ahm it is ia with adam ondi ahman only one farm is near where once buooa a god prospect for a great city and temple and only one man I 1 find in all three who had bad lived there at the time when all the above named places placed were burned to ashes all were burned so says major mcgee who is the only one who lived her hem 3 to tell the tale effectually and he is ia about 75 years old rf a fine ane portly heaney looking man and respected in the community he is encased as notary and re sides eides in gallatin although I 1 am personally acquainted with the history of those days when only in my teona and was on ne who was mobbed from the county while owning a small farm which I 1 was making for a home for my widowed bothel mothel nevertheless nevert neless Leless I 1 made it a point to call on major mcgee to add to the mona of the few now living regarding those days which should in my any opinion bo be held in remembrance before the young and rising generation now growing ingup jian ju utah a goodly portion of them living ii in houi your county 0 anty five fiva yea fl ago elders jenson bis big hop ho black aud and myself nv elf called upon the th 0 major who kind kindly ir received receive 3 us this time he was full fall of business but said 1 I will b be e disengaged in a few min minutes I 1 told the veteran of davis county I 1 wished to take a view of one of the old relics of gallatin if he could point out one of them to me which marked the time of the mormon war as it is ia known hereabouts not tha sigu sign of a building remains he be answered 11 the ibe last relic was not lone since removed only two bobit B of bock or hewed log houses remained after the war I 1 have a piece of one of them and 1 intend to have it maje made up into info walking canes between the mob and the mormons cormons Mor mons all the houses or neaily all allot of them were burned up in ia the whole county around gal gaila la in is the county seat beat of davis county and beautiful square without a court house the town claims 1700 inhabitants and has a beav beautiful location surrounding with timber land rolling rolline gently and ext extending endina out into the draine lands landa mr arke coln n the livery man who took me over to Di abman ahman was free to give me information as we passed over the country there I 1 said be is where my father owned acres of land 50 60 years bao eo land is on the ralso lately it will bring now from twenty to thirty I 1 five dollars per acre including house barns and 1 I 1 improve improvements ments As we approached dichman Di ahman he said there is where now lives a man whose father lived on an the old colonel wright farm it passed irom from their hands bands into widow sarah A Mc McDonald Donalds 6 about 50 years ago and she now owns the far farm M and n d has lived in the old hou mormon morino n house se ever since until about two yea years ra ago when they moved into a more modern house on oil a point of ground just north of the old relic the house is occupied now by a fatally family which I 1 should judge is ia of large proportions for as we climbed up the hill about two hundred yards above the double hewed log house bouse with its two large stone chamne chimneys chim rs quite a flock of children cb ildren came out of the oad 0 d house and wanted to be taken I 1 iu the picture that hint we were vitro arranging arr angine to kake ake of the old altar including the sloping hill and house below some soma of the children were allowed to stand eland near the hickory tree which stood on ahe north side eide of the altar and about ten 0 twelve feet from the center near the center of the altar the stories stones hare been pulled up leaving a vacuum on the top too of the mound which is about thirty feet in diameter the tree is about 3 feet through but not very high spreading out its arms in a every direction other timber in variety skirts afie ridge on which the altar stands I 1 have also alao taken a view of the lyman bigla stable north west of 0 tin thi altar anon yards away aitu black walnuts on the leafless trees the ground ia h covered with cart loads of these nuts they are mu much b larger than ihan aboa grown j la utah I 1 think it will make a pretty piu pu lure ture elspet chy to those like myself who sapt or rather tried to sleep in this old stable 55 years ago this occurred during a storm in those mobbing days da ys when some ot of our folks were driven from thair houses which in thet their f pro pros eena enza were burned down I 1 will r remember those days and now while I 1 gaze upon the senei s a aae I 1 am aca almost paralyzed when I 1 think upon times it almost seem seeing like a dream and scarcely possible I 1 can feel keenly those cobs which I 1 slept up upon 0 in that old stable loft whose losi are fast decaying and will soon be as those who slept there burned back into dust with very ay ays the valley about lost beet below the altar spreads out in a curved form it being about 34 3 of a mile wide skirting on the grand river kiver it is a lovely valley joseph re received celled 4 revelation in n 1838 naming ic adam instead of spring hill which WEB its former nama cam I 1 heard joseph the prophet say bay that jackson county was where the garden ot of eden was established and from whence adam was driven after which he came here and built this altar blessing his bia children ildren cn ha be ore his change took place after taking several P pictures 1 of the surrounding country rod aad a I 1 last look over some borne of the ruins ot of old mormon house bouie sI offered up acil solemn lemn prayer to ane lord to remember those waste and in due time to let the voice of melody od again mingle with thanksgiving and praises to the lord and also iso to fo hasten efin time wan father adam will come back to conclude a great work began here by himself which is ia yet incomplete ana wilt wil I 1 remain so until his feet shall stand on this goodly lau lar d of adam ondi aadi ahman when that time cornea comes I 1 should be pleased to visit it again I 1 was treated very kindly by the people in the country and enjoyed my T visit isit very much returning to independence to fill appointments already made the concerning the temple lot between the Hedric kites and the josephites josephite sis is likely to terminate in favor of the Hedric kites who are in possession of it ane Hedric kites many years ego bought and paid taxes on the beneral parts which had been laid out by th the a city tile the fence which they put around the plot is so old that some of the posts are nearly rotten some trees are pla planted in the inclosure theta these with the blue STUBS grass lawn looked worthy of a picture which we took including two meeting houses there are about josephites Joaeph ites or reorganized church men who are living as aa closely around the sacred spot of ground as possible believing that the time is ia at hand when a temple is to be reared unto the lord recording according to the orom aises made years ago by the prophet joseph smith and unto this end ganv of that faith or faction are trying the arm of the law for possession of the temple lot although the Hedric kites claimed to have been called upon by revelation to secure the best title possible to the property properly and to gaver up and around this waste place of zion in answer to the question what is your purpose regarding the property in the future 1 they answered we are holding poa po session of it awaiting gods mind and will for we are only the possessors not the disposers dis posers of i it t it be baldiga boags to the lord not us the original followers of the church haye have built no four great temples a and nd are carrying out the wort laid out by the prophet before his martyrdom for he was then building temples gatherine the people and had taught the twelve apostles A how to work in these th he endowed them with to 0 o carry 06 on the marvelous work and wonder bodde boon after those endowments which with ke B f power were be b heard board the prophet while on a stand bland erected on the east end of the un unfinished fin temple say bay 1 I now ow see the tha time I 1 have long desired to see sea for now the gospel tree is planted and rooted deev nevermore never more to be overturned or reorganized for there are men under the abond of my voice who are prepared to cary cairy on the great work lq let me ma go where 1 I please to europe paradise bior or elsewhere 11 the ima impression this made upon me ma entered centered deeply on my mind at that time me for he spoke of sympathetic pow er r I 1 believe that it was at that time ime t that he be said obaid 1 I have carried sidney rigdon on my hack back long enouen and fiodi now shaking his coat I 1 will shake blin bicoff off he stand for himself with this understanding the latter day saints in the moun taina are wil ling line to abide gods goda time in building banding up ap the waste places for when bo be eat ready we shall know it and the temple lot will be ready for the work to be done dofie EDWARD |