Show I I It was Just before the outbreak of the Civil war that the territory of Utah was carved and portions I gf of f It given to Nevada Then It was two years rears later when another slice I was taken off and presented to I Nevada and after atter the war a Q still larger slice alice was taken off the west westsIde westside westside side and this slice was given also alsoto alsoto to the Sage Brush Drush state Then the eastern boundary of the state was fixed at the thirty-second thirty meridian Finally In the carving process small i 1 pieces were given to Colorado and V Wyoming out of the northeast corner corner corner cor cor- ner of the territory and then the boundaries of the state were den deft 1 fixed and thus they have re re- re I It might be said that In the de determination determination determination de- de termination of the boundary lines that lines were so squared that four tour states corner so that one may stand In four tour states at the same time viz Utah Arizona New Mexico and Colorado a feat that cannot be equaled anywhere else in the Union On the point pint of I Lookout Mountain in Tennessee one oner r I can an see in seven states duo to the bend of the Tennessee river which In that region Is the shape of a aI I moccasin as it wends its way to the i Mississippi That Is the nearest approach to what one can do In InI I Utah COUNTIES DEFINED I With the fixing of the boundaries of ot the territory by the legislature I the the counties were also redefined and at that time they numbered I eighteen counties They were Beaver Boxelder Cache Davis Green River Iron Juab Juab Kane MIlI MIl MIl- I lard Morgan Salt Lake Sanpete I Summit Tooele Wasatch Weber Washington and Utah Morgan county was founded in the spring I of 1855 It was named after atter Je diah Morgan Grant who was wag a aI I member of ot the first presidency In Inthe Inthe the next year Boxelder and Cache counties were created The counties counties counties coun coun- ties had been settled seWed prior to their I creation by the legislature William Davis James Brooks and Thomas Thoma Pierce settling ln in Boxelder in 1851 and who then laid the foundation I fo for Brigham City es establishing a aI ai i trading post there I I In July 1856 Peter Maughan grandfather of vf f Lieutenant Maughan who recently made the flight from New York to San an Francisco beI between between be- be I tween sunrise and sunset pioneer I of that section chose a site site on ont t which the city of W is now now located and here he erected a small fort Afterwards he changed the name nama of his fort front from Maughans Maughan's fort to Wellsville naming the place Wellsville in honor of Daniel H. H Wells Veils general of ot the legion Ion and the territorial militia PEACE REIGNS Settlement of Kane county bounty v Vas s made In 1856 the county being or 01 organized organized by taking laking a part of WashIngton Washington Wash Wash- ington county and was named after Colonel Thomas I L. L Kane who had been a peace envoy to Johnstons Johnston's army in an endeavor to end the Echo canyon war Then in 1859 came the organization of ot Wasatch county the settlers coming from Provo and Nephi At this time pe peace ce reigned in the territory and it was determined d to settle the southeastern part of ot the territory this after a visit made there by President Brigham Young and andin In the fall tall of ot the year 1861 a number of families moved to Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington county founded the mission and located the town of St. St George the name being in honor of George Albert Smith In that the Mormon I people we were wee e great believers In home Industry it was determined to build up the manufacture of at Iron In Cedar City and the growing of ot cotton on the Virgin river near St St. George I I In the efforts to develop the theIron theiron theiron iron industry more more than two thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars was expended but the theare theore theore ore are would not flux and the attempt was abandoned ned There was however however however how how- ever some some iron manufactured and andI from it was made nails The nails nalls or rather the large spikes which were used In in the construction of the Salt Lake theatre were made at Cedar City where the iron manufacturing manufacturing manu manu- plant was founded Now the Iron ore ore which could not be handled Is being manufactured by bythe bythe bythe the Steel corporation on I o |