Show BRIEF mm HISTORY OF TOOELE continued from I 1 last ast week from the files of 0 th the transcript 20 ago settlement creek was a very desira blo place for a homo home but because of tho the small supply of water it was thought only a very limited number of people c could settle tha there tho the range was good for stock and buol buo was th then on near by as a grave grove of cottonwood cotton wood box boxelder elder and maple some lof tho the trees 40 feet high grew broj on tho the land now on boyaj by AJ mccuistion stion and other patches d of vig tho the c banks not far up the land wa was good g aw nd free freo from cumbrance cumbra tho the sito site commanded it a view af otaH all jho tho valley and thi location nasf V thought to be 0 a very healthy herlth on ne but ut the water question was the tha jat great draw b ack at moi the beat judge put tho the extreme limit i 0 o f lans land hat could bo be watered a b by tho the brosk at acres and iv ve std quite sure that their judge ment tn ef error forat at that 0 ji time no 0 n enot in t even the tha most seA quine did suppose that all valley could austain ft 4 farming pa population ot 4 over ono hundred families instead ift wonia ons that bro are of our mountain abound daiv vale this main maln fact in view it ja no wonder that thai the first settlers Bett leia bag bagin n 4 to foar fear of k the do overcrowding immigration that set in early of bit thit rush affini ft ile ova s backbone of the permanent perma neni success of tho the I 1 thoele tooele wie colony the ta Ind Indiana lans v ere in 6 a po positron posit lon and a frame of mind to run the fl first r s t few settlers bettera ou out any ilay day and it was onti only the mho addith af numbe cumbe ra intes jt 9 t hat cd that yer r loli bouc the success bf ananyan flo iia has 3 dep depended ida on vi very ry 0 o opportune cir help tha teAi fei ceiilia ilIa city that spring to this day the number um of indians that could have been mustered in this valley in a short time cannot bo be computed but it is known that the numbers was a long ways in excess of the numbers gumbei s needed to cleaning tho the settlement out even some years after tho the time wo we are writing about but the now new and the fold old settlers were soon working in larmony harmony and new cabins began to be added to the ones that had been milt built tho the fall before and now new plans lad had to be formed for the extension of the settlement so BO as to give room for all while this was going on the wheat sown in hi the arly spring had been grow ing ng and now presented a beautiful sight to tho the settlers as in its green berduo was waa the pleasing hope opo of a coming harvest it was just high enough to cover the ground and looked like a carpet of green velvet that some magic hand had bad spread upon tho the ground when lo 10 lol I 1 one morning came lumping jumping from settlement canyon rail mil lions ions of hungry creaking crickets and made thel way straight for that wheat patch to say the settlers were astonished toni tonis shed lied would bo be an expression to mild for the occasion for a while they were perfectly paralyzed at the sight and could scarcely believe their own vision the astonishment was not so muth much at the sight before them as it was the thought of where all that lumping army came from for they |