| Show b What do you ou know about Boxelder Box Box- elder county This question question vas was asked yesterday b by a tourist who had lad spent n. n a couple of days in the county and who had driven down from rom there and was seeking infer infer- Information information mation matlon With a view to lo coming to lo Utah to live So Sa memory was called upon pon to tell teU him the st story ry of ot of the me fourth largest county in th the state and which was among the first counties In the state slate to be settled The county of Boxelder has an area area ot of f square square miles mlles It has a population population population pop pop- according to lo the census of 1920 of but which is now In range ange of or mor more It is exceeded exceeded ex- ex in area by the counties of Millard Millaid San Juan and Tooele In Ino Inso Inso so o far Car a as Its taxable property is concerned It is valued at among the wealthy counties of the state tate and of this assessment a litle little lit- lit the tle le less than half Is assessed by the state tate board of equalization Figures sometimes do not become monotonous when dealing with facts as they exist and the figures herewith here here- wIth presented tell a wonderful story tory of a a. county a large part of which Is a desert waste for the waste vaste land of the county amounts to lo o acres while the Improved im- im proved roved lands farm lands aggregate acres the grazing lands acres and the fruit lands acres The value of the city lots amounts to and the metal mines and mining claims make the total otal value of the real estate estat of ot the he county Then add to lo this his value of real estate other property property property prop prop- erty amounting to and andou you ou have a gross total of 66 one of the wealthiest counties In the state wonderful state county it is The pioneers arrived In Utah Ulah on July uly 24 24 1847 Two years later laler North Willow Creek now Willard city which city was wiped out by flood lood in August 1924 was settled Simon A. A Carter was the leader of ot he the pioneer band who settled In the county then an unknown county Inthe in inthe the he matter of area On April 11 Ii 1851 William Davis James Brooks and Thomas Pierce who had been sent ent out as explorers with Simon ACarter A A. Carter arrIved on the spot where BrIgham City now stands and they were later Joined by other colonizers colo- colo who numbered several CamIlles fam- fam tiles lies who remained there during luring the wInter Inter v o of I 1 1852 1851 5 1 living in log huts luts which were constructed like a fort It was on Mar March h 51 iii 1 1851 when I Willow Creek was settled the colony colony col col- colony col- col ony being bein composed of Jonathan Sawyer Wells and family John M. M McCrary and family Lyman Briggs Wells and family and Albert Walton Valton and family they arriving thus early I having spent the winter of ot 1850 1851 In the old Farr foit fort which had lad been erected near the present site of the city of Ogden With this band and of colonizers was Samuel Mecham Mecham Mecham Me- Me cham of the Sessions settlement which Is now Bountiful Late In Inthe Inthe inthe the fall Elisha Ellsha Mallory and wife and Orin Porter Rockwell homesteaded homesteaded homesteaded home- home at Porter Springs on Three ThreeMile ThreeMile Mile creek the land being surveyed by Cyrel Call and Henry G. G Sher Sher- wood At the general conference which was held hela in Salt Lake City on October October October Oc Oc- Oc- Oc tober 6 three seventy-three years ago fifty families under the leadership of Lorenzo Snow Snow- afterwards president president president dent of the church were sent to Brigham City to strengthen the colony For protection against the Indians a fort Cort was vas built known as Davis' Davis fort and and in 1853 another fort tort was erected and a log schoolhouse schoolhouse school- school schoolhouse house was erected a short distance from this second forts forti In all on December 5 1854 there were members of the church mostly Danes and Welsh Before the plastering pIns plas was done or the doors placed in n position Brigham Young Toung and a party of tourists were the guests o of President Snow A |
