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Show Carter plowed furrows By QU1G NIELSEN No sooner had the pioneers arrived arriv-ed in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in 1 847 , when B righ am Young ordered the creeks dammed so the parched and barren ground could be flooded and plowed. Who plowed the first furrows? William Carter's name is entered in church history as gaining that honor. Carter, Shadrach Roundy and George W. Brown had rigged up plows to turn the sod. A five-acre five-acre plot, located near present State Saturday, George A. Smith had planted the first potatoes. Plowing continued the following Monday and by late that afternoon three acres of potatoes, peas and beans were in the ground along with four acres of early corn. After eight days in the valley, 13 plows and three harrows had been at work most of the week and 52 acres were under cultivation. (Source: LDS Museum ol Church History and Art records. Quig Nielsen is an information officer offi-cer for the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City.) Street between 200 and 300 South, had been staked off. A 26-year-old English convert to the Mormon Church in 1 840, Carter was first because the others failed. Carter later related that both Roundy Roun-dy and Brown broke the wooden beam on their plows as they attempted attemp-ted to cut into the hard ground. Before their plows could be repaired, Carter had turned a half-acre half-acre of the virgin sod. Carter said his team pulled steady and cut through the firm turf without snagging the plow or snapping snap-ping the beam. With Roundy and Brown returning, return-ing, the three plowed two and one-half one-half acres, and by the next day, a |