Show 197 in this orchard were small but were Utah's peaches first home-gro- wn 7 Yhenthe Mormon Church decided to use the island for in 1849 Fielding Garr was sent there as herds- Q He built a five room structure of dobies man and caretaker The Church The old building still stands made on the spot herd consisted of cattle and horses collected as tithes and privately owned stock placed under church care It will be recalled that Stansbury pastured his stock with this herd No accurate figures concernduring his lake survey in 1850 ing the size of the original herd was obtainable by the writer from the L D S Church offices However casual later references to the herd usually spoke in terms of thousands Ernest Ingersol for example in the early 1880 s stated that "two thousand head of cattle are pastured" there The "L D S Journal History" for Thursday June 26 1856 contains this notice i "President Brigham Young and Heber C Kimball spent the day on Antelope Island among the stock The Church has some 5000 horses on the island and some other a stock range stock" 7 Brown np "Description and History of Antelope Island" Kimball "Early Recollections of Antelope Island" Improvement Era 2 1907 335 337 9 Ernest Ingersol The Crest of the Continent 8 Solomon F |