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Show ( SANPETE STAKE.OF ZIOX. 'IVfcrlpliou of lis Various Fluurbh n las Selllemrntf. Correipondeoceet ILe Drsccrr XEira) The Stnrte Blake of Xlon cm jUraas&Jlof Sanpete County, Utali, ami coaltts of 1 7 warUa, which trraiiReil in orJer of ize or total rne:i.b.'rslilpttird rs follows: Slonat Dta aal (formerly tw want,) with Iw mexbera. Uorool... . .... , i-j . Kphr.lm Sjuih n.rj iiit " r'airTlew tus srrmicOily jjk I.UIIBIM1B , JQJJ M ManU-aib arJ .... lajt "' rount-inUretn ia-l .. art Maotl Xotth Ward 7,y Kutira-m .North we.i- 777 May&eM . 457 iii.uur.i. ........,.. . ig i!i"JLr" " "erlloc JZZ.'.'. K7 " Cheater... .... IaU.soU....r .". -Jo Tom , .. itjti m la point of ago the UiUercut settt. -tient" TAV.k as follotr: Manti, m- -ilI la ISi'J, Kphralm, Mount Pless-nrit Pless-nrit nut! cii.rln;r C'lly, lS5i Wale", 1S57, Muroul, Falrvlew CJiniiil-soiiHiid FouutainGrc:D,IS59, Fajrclte, 1S3I; MUburn. 1S7.I; che er ami Alayileld, 1372; siierllris, ISTXaml Indttiola, 1S74. Ephral 1. latl only onu family until 1S5I hn tbe actual stttlemeat ww, utile, ami Mount l'.V-.ti,.t aim Sprlus City (orLjInally known w- U'junt l'liasaut Creek Seltleruuut ii'l tbo AllreU'o Settlement) were VjIIi racateil .Ukuiju of InJIau - iUtslnlS33,5cd not settlej until 15G9. uf the fifteen toTns or precinct In SitiixJu county, iix, namely, ManU, l-.pliraiin. S.-ringCIty, Jlr.uut Pleasant, Falrvlew ana Murunl, at JuttrtU tltlw, nml one(roantaiu Jretu) an Incoriwratexl town. Manti. the oldest sett i-tneiit In tbe Jtako and tlio county teat of San jtte omnty, Is pleasaiilly fltuateu in City (!rtek and at the weal base ot hcUantch mountains, 1.1J mllo uth of Halt latce City. Kituateil in rlslos grouuj It com-uands a Inovlewot tae surrounding couu-ry. couu-ry. Thebeautlful Temild standing .n tlrn MR nrl:lniy known as the rockquanylylnsimrnedlatclynorth. t n tnu ijru uuua much importance import-ance to the place, ami a fine Taher-111 Taher-111 In tunuln on what in early times was Kuown as the Temple Movfc near thu ceutre of town is the mot commodious house of worship in the .Sani-eto SUke of 7-iou. Manli is divided into two iliahoia wards, jf which HIsliop Hans Jensen pre .Ides ofver IheSouUi, and Wm. T. ReUactsa) liljhop over the North ward. Seven mllei northeast of ManU. m Cottonwood Creek, lies the twautlful city of Kphralm, principally prin-cipally inhatiteJ by peopla of ricanoinaTlan extraction. This laco vies with Manti In point ol population and importance, and for uauy 3 ears there has existed it son f friendly competition between the two place. .Kphralui la tbo head-iusrtre head-iusrtre of the Stnjitto Stake, as .'reeident Petersen and his first Vtinvror resIJo her, and about half the members of the High Coun- 1, miiiIc j.nitr Juiiu II. Jluilrcn londCout'selorin the Stale Pro-lem-y, tesldri' in Mantl, as also the .ih.r half of tbo HIkIi Couui-ll Apoitle Anthon H. l.unJ resides in i.iMiraitu, nnd here nbu Is located the Stake Academy recently opened ind uuw In a 11 turlalilng conJitlou under the able management of Prof. YlmaUreenwood. Of the three citie- MhiiIi, Kpliralm and ML Pieasant which recently lmvecomptt1.1I for the poseskion of tbe county seat r.pbnilui, from a geographical standpoint, has tlio Lest claim, but Manti has the advautaga of bclug he oMeet settlement In the countt ind ha I wen tlio county seat from theliegtunlng while Mount Pleatam an boost of tue lirest papiilation. The quwllon ns to where the count j "ut ill l In tlio near future is not yetdetilcJ, although Mantl carne .trvu.U,duu at ttie 1 .te election, nut this is by some only coa-Mcte-i a temporary victory.iu consequence ol which no fTeparjtlons aieas yet being be-ing roa-le to trcct a permanent orsub-taLtial orsub-taLtial court house, which Is so much neethd, as tlio old rock Htmcture in Maull now used for county purposes Is cltogethi-r too small and luconvuilcnt fur the amount of busiuess transacted In out f the leading counlitgof the Territory. Terri-tory. i.phralm, like ManU, is divided Into two wards, and ldcr C. C. X. Oorlui preaMcs as lllshop of the outh and li. S. Auderson cf tlie north ward. The commoduou-rabcrnick', commoduou-rabcrnick', a substantial rock building build-ing second only to the Mantl Taler incle in joint of eize and finish rlcs itch above thu Eurroundlng. Irulld-iiigsand Irulld-iiigsand gives Kphralm the appearance appear-ance of a large olil country vlilase 'mined around a Lutheran church edifice. aunui; City is pleasantly eituatcd on Canal Creek, ten milts northeast of Kphralm. This town tau boast of Hie beat water for culin ary purposes in the county This i obtained from the numcrou--pr.nps, fo'ind within theclty limits lim-its and which, no doubt, tUjrgested the name tho settlement now bears. For many years Spring City wafc the home of the late ApoaUe Orson Hyde, and today it is believed that spring City has mora genuine veterans faithful men and women, whoso experiences reach back to the remarkable days of KirtlanJ, Missouri aud Illinois than any iliier town iu thu Sanpete Stake ol Zou. James A. Allred preside ver tbo ward, wi'Ji John Frantzen and I.suritz harncn as counselors. Five ml'cs northeast of Sprint: City we come to tbo city of Mount .-eu-.T.nt, wlih ti, ilko Hpriug City, Utca back to lbo2, but as a icnmnent settlement only to 1K9. The city covers en lmmenso area, uutUUiinly populated. The death record of Mouut Pleasant commenced com-menced tilth the Killing of Isaac Allred by n Mr. I vio and the drowning of a little clillJ In Pleasant Pleas-ant Creek in May, ISM, but since then it has boeoae a "live" place. Ju.'t Imagine, thrio saloons In wlmt wasouceaquletand neacerul "Mormon town," and this too before the 'L.iurraU" ha gut fall control. The facts iu tbe cake are that this la the heatt-guarlcn for apostates and the whole dl'conieu neaieni 01 ciin-pcle ciin-pcle County, and so fir ai I could learn, the onjy city in Sapete which was honored by a visit of si dUtlnsuiihe-l champions of fraud and dieirau'Jibement cs the would Hon." C. C. Qaodwln, Kx Judge O. W. Powers and others. Another distinguished gentleman who tome time ago fl.rured pmml-tiently pmml-tiently ns chief executive of cur Territory, took sick In Moroni the catito of which was that the gentle man icsteal of following the main road from tho railway depot, passing by tbo only liquor establishment iu the town, as lie shouIJ liavo done, passed rlsrlit through that ettablbb-ment ettablbb-ment and when he came out on tlio I other side he could not find tbe roid. I nml lier.ro failed to reach Mount! Pleaiant. Hut In relating this wc do not deslra to stlgmatlza the city of Mount rieasant as a place for everything that is evil, for although al-though some of the more radical"lii-berala" radical"lii-berala" have asked members of tbe People's party to cease their efforts to control the municipality iu order that they (tbo Liberals) mlgbtmake a regular Wi!p-!iob" of tho place, I do not liellevo for ono moment that such will bo the case. Mount Pleasant Is, I tru't, destined to continue a respectable and well governed commonwealth, fur tbe majority cf tbe Inhabitants there are Just as good, Industrious, respectable re-spectable and moral aa pcoplo eUe-wherein eUe-wherein tho country. Until quite recently Mount Pleasant, like Ephraini and Mantl, was divided luto two Bishop's Wards, but Elder U. ??. Jiund, a man of advance thoughts and Influence, now presides pre-sides aa Bishop of the whole settlement. settle-ment. Falrvlow, another flourishing city, commending ai tbo nami SJg-rwti a most beautiful view of theSanpeta valley southward, Ilea six miles aaodaa aa iaaaa a a aaaaa a a a north of Mount Pleasant. It was originally known as North Bend, from tho fact that the Banpltch Rivtr hero takes a turn from a southwesterly to a more southerly direction. Falrvlew was, during the Indian war of 1565-7, tbeafron-tler tbeafron-tler town of Sanpete County on tbo northeast,and consequently suffered considerable loss of life and stock. The present Bishop of tho ward Is Elder James O. Peterson, late of South Cottonwood, Salt lake County. Coun-ty. I have Just been lnfotmed that the track of the Sevier branch of the Rio Gran J Western Railway Is now laid tv uilhlu a short distance of Falrvlew, and ihal in the course of a few more days the town will be placed in permanent railway com munlcatlon with the outside world. Changing our course of travel to tho southwest wo reach MorunI, -It-uatod on the sunny aide of the bills which divide the north end of the valley Into an eastern and a western part. TheSaupltchnvkkIrtathe ut ot tue bnla upon which the town s'a.nda, and separates tho settlement set-tlement from most of its farming land, which lies on tho opposite or southeast side of tbe nver, Moroni Ij a railway town, t-eing situ atcd on the Sanpete Valley RillroaJ, and has the oldest -operativo store In tha county, tha longest Irrigation canal, one of tho b.-st mills and some of the th'iniet people in tbe Sanpete Stake of Zion. A fine rook structure struc-ture the ward meeting hou-e occupies oc-cupies the most elevated and con-sp con-sp cious prominence on the rolllLg townsite, aud lends beauty and eu-ha eu-ha icement ta tbe surrounding oouutry. Tho priuclpal founder of thu 'settlement, Bsbop Geo. V. ItraJlcy, H still alive, and oc-uples tho old family hoaiestea'l on the hillside. South of Moroni, on the opposite si Je of the Stnpcta River aud al most In tbe very centre of Sinpete valley trtper, la Cheater Ward, an outgrowth of Spring City and Mo-r Mo-r -114. It consuls 01 farmers who all live on their respective quarter section sec-tion or subdivisions, and possess some of the richest and most productive pro-ductive lands in the Territory, and here isnls some poor lands. Cbes tor Is tho present terminus of the Saote Valley Railway, the deiot being about four miles sjuth of M, roul. KUcr C. Chrlstensen, a good-natured and faithful man, presides pre-sides over tbe ward. West of Chester Center about five miles dktint,ntar the foot of what locally Is known as the West Mountains, lies the village of Wales. I can to gaiter bis ton J cat lnrormatiou concerning the place, but had to go away without accompliihldg my object, for tne presiding autborlllts bad gone on ajourney. But Wales, nevertheless Un fine llttlo settlement, and the Welsh iiopubtlan here have a good reputation fur honesty, peace and aatirltty. The place n as once the terminus of the Sanpeto Valley ilallftoy, buta few years ago the (rack was torn up and rclaid to Chester via Moroni. It was In the mountains a short distance southwest south-west of that placo that coal was first discovered In the Haupete Valley, and in tho year 1S55 an old Indian told tho new settlers at Kphralui about the discovery. The mines have been worked since 1So7, but since thu discovery of twtter coal east of Kalrvicw and south of Mantl thu companies near Walts have not been so profitable as heretofore.' Kigbt miles northwest of Moroni i) Unincorporated town of Fountain Ureeu, originally known as Uintah. tt Is situated on the creek Issuing from the famous Uintah Springs which are fouud at tbe base of the mountains about two miles northwest north-west of the settlement. Within a rallus of n hundred feet or less a 11 te stream, at once large encugh to run a mill, emerges from tbe ground and winds its way to tho valley below. be-low. On this stream the settlement .lets nearly all tbe water it uses for Irrigation purposes. Fountain Green Is supposed to be the coldcet place In Sanpete Valley, its altitude being sumen ual more than Falrvlew ana of course higher than all tho other settlements lying further down the valley, but notwithstanding this the crops of small grain mature well, and sorao fruit of the more hardy kinds Is also raised. James Vorgen--in, Andrew It. Bertensen nnd Wm. K. Cook ennstituto tbe HLthopric of this place, which is the most northwestern settlement ot Sanpete County. The distance from here over the divide and through Salt Creek Canyon to Nepbi, Juab County. U about fourteen four-teen mile?. South of Mantl there are three organized wards. The first one leaihea by tbe traveler after going In a southwesterly direction is Sterling, formerly known as Petty-vlll. Petty-vlll. It con-l-t-iof the villaze of Slerllng, situated on Six Mile Creek, iix miles trum .Manll) aud tlio settlers residing on tho neichborlng farm, some of them on Xhe Mile Creek. John Ij. Peacock, a young man. is Bishop. Six miles further south Is May-field, May-field, situated on both sides of Twelvo Mile Creek, and occupying tbe ground where the old Indian chief Arrapenoonco cultivated his famous Indian farm and from w here be male Irtquent visits to the settlements and sometimes preached to tbe people. OldArrapenl Is yet favorably remembered by many of the older settlers of San pete Valley, as he always proved a truo friend to tho Saints, while nearly all his brothers and tho Ute Indians generally would make breaks and kill and plunder tho settlers occasionally. occa-sionally. The old chief died In Grass Valley Dec. 4, 1SG0. The Inhabitants In-habitants of MayflelJ con-bt chiefly of young and middle aged people, who actually "swarmed" out of Kphralm about sixteen years ago, because there was not room enough for them in that old settlement, settle-ment, and they ltave done well. MayflelJ is n thrifty little place and after the brethren shall havu carried out Uieir present far reaching plans of building reservoirs, there will be room for qulto a number more settlers. Parley Christiansen is the present Bishop, having recently succeeded our respected friend O. C. Olscn, who had acted as Bishop since the first settlement of the place. About six miles west of Mayfield or nearly fifteen miles southwest of Mauti lies tho town Gunnison. Its situation Is Indeed beautiful, occupying occu-pying ns It does tbe gentle slope of a sunny hillside on the extreme south end of that spur of the Wasatch mountains which senarates San cete fram Juab Valley and the Green River. It commands a fine view of the Sevier Valley southward. The Junction of UieSanpitch and Sevier rlvereUala point about ten milis below or west of the settlement. Gunnison is named In honor of Lieut. J. W. Gunnison, of the U. S. Typographical Knginecrcorps, who, together with others of bis party, was cruelly murdered by Indians near the sink of the Sevier Sept. Hi, 1553. This settlement has a more extensive tract of farming land than any other city or town in Sanpete County, and part of it at least Is very productive when brought under un-der cultivation. Scarcity of water and vexatious difficulties with tbe settlers on tho streams above has somewhat Impeded the growth of tbe town. Also the Indian ainicul-ties ainicul-ties (It being tho frontier town during dur-ing tho Indian war of 1S6S 67) and its location on lands which until quite, recently were a part of an Indian In-dian reservation, made tho upbuilding up-building of the settlement very hard aud trying on the people from the beginning, and many, In course of time, grew tired and weary and moved to other parts of the country. But now Gunnison has, to all ap pearauccr, a bright future before It-and It-and tho townsite which a few years ago 1 joked barren and desolato compared com-pared with other settlements la the county, now presents a much more thrifty and comfortable appearance. Shade trees and bushes of different kinds are beginning to grow tall and beautiful on tbe salty land which at one time was considered incapable ofprodudng a shrub of any kind. Elder C. A. Madsen, one of the early members of Uie Church In Scandinavia, presides over tha Gunnison Ward. ANDREW JKS30X. 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