Show Just j By Albert F. F Philips j jIt 1 It was was was' wason on November 19 1 when a company of fifty ta from Salt Lake City and Cent r ville led by Isaac Morl y Charlr Shumway Seth Taft and Nelie Higgins arrived at the site of ot whis wh whis is now the city of Manti l and settle settlement ment mont of ot Sanpete county was begu bei the first settlement in that par the state The Sanpete valley vaney h ha been heen explored by Joseph H Horn r William W W. Phelps and others du duing ing ins tho the month of August tho the explorers entering the valle Vall through Salt Creek canyon TJ Ti ri visit to Sanpete valley aIlcy at that t ti tin n was on the invitation of ot Chi CM Walker Valker and he acted as guide to to u- u explorers before the settlement w vr determined upon A AThe The county of Sanpete was one one the tho first six counties created byU legislature of tho state of Des Destt Desert which convened in Salt Lake 18 1849 It is December on one oldest counties in the state ar aio ar when It was created it was Ilk lik Ilki great empire In area for tOr include dr drIn in its border borderi were what are ilo no o othe the counties of ot Carbon Emer Eme Grand and Sevier and a par parti southern Uinta The name Sat Sar pete was a corruption of or th the nan of an India i chief chiet San Pitch wl wI was killed c t. t t Birch canyon in Apr Pr j 1866 m II While the county was created December 1849 it was not orga as a county under the pr p of the act until 1852 At that date ManU Mantl waard dared the county seat George Pe e cock was selected as probate ju Gardner Lyon James RIchey j Phineas T T. T Cook commissioner Cyrenus II 11 Taylor clerk Nels Higgins sheriff John Lowre J assessor and collector and Geor treasurer 11 3 As has been said the settle of the county was due to an int tion of the Ute Chief Walker afterward led the Walker w against the white settlers In j Jur Jr t 1849 Walker Valker with a number of ott h tribe paid a visit isit to President Bri BI Briham ham Young and requested that tha send a band of settlers to the Sa pete valley so sa that the member members his tribe might be taught how t the soil and ind construct houses If T invitation was accepted the regi reg explored and a favorable reports report's su to Brigham Young 1 t tIt It was late in the year when 1 party of settlers pitched their cain can ca canIn canIn In Manti ManU and some difficulty y experienced in getting shelter the party and for tor a while they 1 I ly In wagon boxes which had be temporarily made into a home Heavy snows drove the f tiers to seek better quarters and number of them dug caves es In t thill hill on which now stands the bea temple During the tire winte party endured many marty privations they suffered considerably fierce storms an anSI the extreme fc cc the winter being unusually se e and the result was most of ot th tb animals were lost BO so that I spring of cf 1850 arrived there was wa J one team of horses left In the the theley A Alev ley lev and they were In such auch that the w were ere scarcely able topa top a plow This coupled with the thi fe tc that the snow was so slow la iam me meing ing that It was June before crops were planted m Chief after inducing Inducing settlement of ot the valley alley discover that he and his tribe tube could no along with the white settlers it was only a short while until was at loggerheads with the whIT one of the settlers f harlea harles Sl Shur ut way being the particular p pers TI that he wanted put out of ot the thew v and during the summer of IS 18 when most of f the able bodied were absent Chief TV Walker roder Mantl Manti fanU having with him a a. bod guard from his tribe and demand that Shumway ay be order that he might be put to tc ture for tor some fancied grievance I course the demand was refu refused ed a finally through the good of offices fic Chief the band Walker Valker was intent upon w however howe and on July Tuly Tul 18 IS 1853 ATe Afe fe feander ander Keel was killed by a br brof broth of Walker Valker at Payson son which ina g grated rated the Walker Talker Indian war T militia were called out and ard engagements followed at lt Mt It ant The settlers about Jit Mt Pi Pica ant were finally finall compelled to mo ale 10 from the valley alleJ to Spring C CI where they erected a fort tort nd JM the aid of ot the militia were to sow and harvest a crop cAl Chi Ch Walker continued to harass these e tiers during the next two years u til on January 29 1855 ho hG m ll death He was succeeded by r I brother who made mad madeI treaty of ot peace with the his treacherous followers did n respect its terms in g ner I ar result their depredations finally in the Black Hawk war It not until 1868 when a a. final was concluded at Strawberry vail and the development of ot the c coun development fl proceeded I |