Show 4 L JUST JUSTI HISTORY I Io o I By Ry ALBERT F. F PHILIPS I 1 6 0 4 I The establishing of the outfitting post at San Francisco Cal Co and Its abandonment six years ears later by the Mormons which was the topic under under un un- un der er discussion by the Old Timers ers when the tho party broke up Tuesday In that the election o of Tuesday had occupied so much of the time was resumed today and the life of Apostle Charles Couls Coulson n Rich who with Apostle Amasa masa Lyman had led the settlers from Salt Lake to the San Bernardino ranch was was under discussion Apostle Rich after whom Rich county was named was a member of the council of the twelve apostles from 1849 to He was a Kentuckian Kentuckian Kentuckian Ken- Ken by birth born in Campbell county in 1809 He was baptised in Fountain county Ind hid near Attica while en route to KIrtland to visit Joseph Smith He was endowed in inthe inthe I the 1 KIrtland temple and was Ordained ordained or Or- a high priest In Kirtland or-I or He was In command o of the Saints when the battle of Crooked river was fought He was ordained a member of the high council In NaUVOO Nau- Nau oo YOO and was a member of the city council there He came cane to Salt L Lake ke in October 3 3 1847 He was I ordained a member of the quorum of tw twelve lve by Brigham Young February Feb Feb- I I uary r 12 1849 He was was s sent 1 on a mission 10 to m In n J re remaining re- re remaining but a short while when he ho returned to Salt Lake and in 1851 led the party with Apostle Lyman to San Bernardino He lie left there thereafter thereafter I after the abandonment of the ranch on April 16 1857 reaching Salt Lake in June of the same year and then accompanied General Daniel H H. Wells Veils to Echo cany canyon on where he re remained remained re re- during the Echo canyon war wai On his return home from the mission mis mis- sion slon to England where he had gone with Apostle Amasa Lyman arrivIng arriving ing log In Salt Lake in 1862 he re remained remained remained re- re in the valley until the au autumn autumn autumn au- au of 1863 when he explored e red the Bear Lake valley and in spring following removed His family there The Church Encyclopedia speaking of Apostle Rich said NATURAL PIONEER He was a natural pioneer and was the leader of the original settlers settlers set set- tiers of the Bear River vane valley alley where he resided until his death in 1883 lIe He was the main director In the establishing of settlements of towns in that section of the state During ing the early years of the Bear lake settlements settlements settlements set set- the only means by which residents could get their mail from fromor or having any communication with the settlements further south when the snow was deep in the mountains was by crossing on snow shoes When others would shrink from the dangerous undertaking of traversing traversing travers travers- ing the mountains at that season when such fearful storms prevailed Apostle Rich would set out and his powerful endurance and wonderful strength always enabled him to go through in so doing he sometimes boro bore fatigue enough to kill an ordinary ordinary ordinary nary man Many of these hazardous hazard hazard- ous journeys were made by him and for a number o of years this was the only way of ot travel in going from home to Salt Lake to attend the legislative s sessions of t. t which he was a member Apostle Rich in the early days figured as a military man holding the office of major general in the Nauvoo legion and he was called by all General Rich He died at his liIs home In Paris Ida in 1883 As has has been bee said sald there we were e sev soy en counties already organized when Utah territory w was s organized Then Thenon 1 on March 3 1852 Gov Governor Brigham I Young approved an act of ot the territorial terri tern tonal legislature defining the boun- boun darl darles darIs s of twelve counties These were ere Davis Deseret Great Salt Lake Green River Iron Juab Millard Millard Mil- Mil Millard lard Sanpete Tooele Utah Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and Weber It might be re remarked remarked re- re marked here that it was originally re-I re Intended to call Tooele county Tulle Tune after atter the many marty rushes that grew Inand inand in inand and around the lak lakes s in the co county nty but in sending in an official communication communication com corn by the clerk lerk of the I cOunty to the territorial officers he spelled the name as It now Is and I thus To ele county Some of these twelve counties contained land enough to make male them veritable empires thus Weber eber count county coun- coun t ty tIP is described in the act of the territorial territorial ter ten legislature o of March 3 1852 That all that portion of the territory ter- ter bounded north by Ogden east eastby eastby by bv the meridian passing through h a I point where the Weber river e enters a cany canyon on about four tour miles below theford the I Ia I ford on the emigration road south I I by the parallel I of latitude through j I Ithe I the junction of or the county count road and andI I the headwaters of Rocky creek beI being be be- I I be-I I ing about bout two miles south of the Weber river canyon and and west by I California is Included within the limits of Weber county bunty OTHER SETTLEMENTS In 1 1853 seven years Sears after the pioneers pioneers pio plo had entered the Salt Lake valle valley val val- le Icy ley settlements had been made ina ina in ina a good part of the central part pait of the territory and these settlements settlements' were Great Salt Lake county count Great I ISalt Salt Lake City Butterfield West Jordan Mill Creek Big and Little Cottonwood and Willow Villo Creek In I i Davis county there was North Canon Canyon Can- Can yon jon Centerville North Cottonwood and Kai's Kais Ward In Weber ber o there was Ogden East Weber eber Wilow Willow Wil Wi- low Creek and Boxelder Bo In Utah county was Provo Dry Creek American American Amer- Amer i ican Fork Pleasant Grove Mountainville Moun- Moun ta Springville Palmyra PeI Pe- Pe I I Summit Creek Creel Cedar Valley Val Va alle le Icy ley David and Lake In Juab county county coun oun- ty there was Salt Creek In Tooele the city of Tooele and Grantsville In Millard was as F Fillmore the county and town being named after aftel the president of the thc United States Millard Mil Mili i I lard ard Fillmore In Iron county was I Cedar and Parowan I Many of these those names have since men changed by legislative enact enact- enact 1 I l c J of 1868 Thus Thus' Great Salt I flake aka City and county were changed I Ito to Salt Lake county and city But But- t is now Herriman Herniman arid and But I Wil Willow Wilow Wi- Wi low Creek is Draper and the second Willow Creek Creel I Is Willart in m Box lder count county North Canyon was changed to Sessions Session's Settlement and then to the name it now has Bountiful and md North orth Cottonwood has become or the Gretna Green Greeno o of Utah Kaysville supplanted the I name name of Kays Kay's Ward East Weber eber I became Uinta Boxelder to BrigI Brigham Brig- Brig In Utah ham tiam City county count Dry I Creek Creel was Vias changed to Lehl LehI Moun- Moun to Alpine to I Payson Summit Creek to Sa Santaquin Santa Santa- ta- ta I quin Pleasant Creek Creele to Mt Pleasant Pleasant Pleasant Pleas Pleas- ant Alred's Aired's Settlement to Spring City and Salt Creek to Nephi I i I With Hh a great man many young oung menlove men rne love lo la Is a matter of ot losing the head rather than the heart |