Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-08 | Page 18 | History of Small Utah town Resembles Account in Bible

History of Small Utah Town ! Resembles Account in Bible j 1 ! OMANTIC ALLY situated In the R mountains which form the rim of the great interior basin of southern Utah was the little settlement of Hebron, which was founded under the direction of Hrastus Snow in IS 6.. As the history his-tory of t he place is so unique, he-catise he-catise of its resemblance to an event , w hieh transpired - In Hebron. Palestine, Pales-tine, thousanus of years ago. Andrew Jenson, assistant L. P. S. church historian, his-torian, has made the follow ing report re-port : "It is recorded in Genesis, chapter 13. that the Patriarch Abraham, who had lately arrived in the land of Canaan Ca-naan from his former home in Ch.al-dea, Ch.al-dea, dwelt with his nephew. Lot, on the plain of Moran, but that a con-, con-, trove rsy arose between the servant s ' of Abraham and the servants of Lot, whereupon 'Abraham removed hia tent and built there an altar unto the Lord.' "So also with Hebron. When St. George was founded in 1S61. in a low ah i tnde on the Rio Virgin, the grass in that part of southern Utah was not sufficient to fed the f'ocks and herds of the pioneers. Hence, Prastus Snow, who presided over the southern mission, cahed some of the 'brethren' to take the stock up into I tae mountains northward, where tne, grass was plentiful. They moved until un-til they came to Shoal creek, the first place they found suitable for their purpose Finding plenty of feed for Their flocks and herds, they located. Vail ed t h e place H e bron and gave thanks to the Lord.' "This led to the establishment of a flourishing little L. 11. S. settlement, where dairying and ranening were carried on for several years quite extensively ex-tensively in ice interest of St. Georse and the settlements down on the Rio "V irgin. The settlers had much trouble with the Indians, who were bent on stealing their stock. Consequently Conse-quently the set tiers found it necessary neces-sary to intrench 'themselves behind j strong fort walls in order to protect their fami'ies and property from the natives. But the farming land uo in the mount ins bemg very limited, it was concluded a few years ago to carry the waters of Shoal creek" further fur-ther down th. rough the canyon onto the edge of the Escaiante desert, where the rich soil only needed moisture mois-ture in order to be prod u c t i v e . B y the industry and enterprise of the citizens a beautiful town has of late years sprung up near the mouth of Shoal Creek canyon. It is named Enterprise. En-terprise. The new town replaces Hebron, which is now practically descried. de-scried. Enterprise was named as a compliment lo the industry of the uioneer builders of the olaca."