| Show AND ITS tributaries TRIBUTA RIES aitor deseret dewree melv alws alfter after fter attending the morgan stake ference ence which was held in M morgan 0 agan r on the aud and august I 1 eded ded to visit the different wards the tha stake in order to gather his oal I 1 information in the evening of t lath I 1 held a meeting with the ate to at croyden croy den a fine little village abed d on lost creek in a fertile e valley of its own here are 28 lies of latter day Sain saints presided F by bishop george knight the ige a of croyden is 13 miles north of ivalle V ille a and ud ten miles east of morgan r the narrow valley in which ayden an lies is about twelve miles ig and nearly three quarters of a W wide in its widest part georgan organ city the headquarters oi of f morgan if organ stake of zion is situated both sides of the weber river near int where that stream receives ati janyon canyon creek as a tributary from the town to Is divided into aft wards all that on the south side of river being organized into the ith morgan ward with charles vet or as bishop and all on the north odthe of the river constitutes the north an ward over which oluff B erson presides as bishop the house a very plain but 1 rock building feet is in ath th morgan where also richi fry aud anil samuel francis un selora in the stake presley reside while president willard smith himself lives in littleton and a half miles west of morgan f brother smith is one of the sur our DIB rg of the haunts mill massacre his father and one of his brothers among the nineteen brethren red at that memorable place jer r 0 1838 1 I held meetings with j to of north morgan on the of the and at south morion on the he awo WO ani and a half miles southwest of th morgan centre on the west side feast canyon creek lies the village of ehy ville ille which constitutes a ward aided ded over by albert D dickson as D here twenty four families of ants reside and a meeting was hold held abe evening of the uday the I 1 spent at west jagst porterville speaking to the ig in both places west porter i ward embraces nearly all the seti residing on the west side and porterville porter valle those living on the ride of east canyon creek samuel r in ie the Bishop lof west porter consisting of thirty one families kinta nearly all of english exon n and joseph R porter prego preas bishop over the twenty one jes residing in the east but porter inward ward nearly all american born creek is jocularly called th the adara between the british aej and americana at one time there P a little friendly jealousy existing reen een the two village but and better judgment have this off and the people of both are re now anxious to amalgamate rone me ward as the two are so close abber or and the inhabitants so few t we people would make more aay and do better by being united stader woner one head the distance between abool house in fast east porterville porter vine and that in west porterville is only half a mile in a straight line or one mile by the roundabout road the two v villages are about four miles and a half south of morgan but there are farms and settlers several miles further up the dreek creek milton ward embraces the vi villages of littleton and milton the former is the oldest settlement in weber valley dating back to 1855 but the latter is the largest village and is situ situated abed four miles northwest of morgan city un on the south side of the river I 1 lectured to the people here on the divine mission of joseph smith on the evening of the peterson ward embraces the villages of peterson on the southwest and mountain green on the northeast side of the weber or all the settlers residing in the lower end of weber valley the ward contains about a dozen fa families m of whom eight reside in the village of peterson which is pleasantly located on a bench nine miles southwest of morgan mountain green once a thriving settlement but now occupied by only a few families is four miles southwest of peterson Pete raon or three miles east of that noted mou moui mountain L tain gorge widely known as the devils gate in the lower weber canyon J john uh n A waite a young man residing at mountain green is the bishop oi 0 the peterson ward enterprise is a thrifty little vill village IL g a whose inhabitants have just pent in conveying the waters of the weber a distance of seven miles on to their farming lands although only containing eleven families this place has a ward organization and is presided over by bishop john K hall formerly of the fifteenth ward salt lake city from the foregoing it will be seen that morgan stake of zion consists ol of nine bishops wards which together have a total membership of 1651 souls or families it is one of the smallest stakes of the church but has a good name the majority of the faints saints are alive to their duties are willing to follow the advice of their wise men ly and are thrifty industrious and economical in their habits as a rule generally speaking the people occupy good and comfortable homes and own some of the best and most productive land in the rocky mountains the climate here is also good although a little colder in the winter than many would call comfortable but the summers are pleasant and delightsome the thermometer seldom reaching eighty le degrees grees the altitude of the railway station at north morgan is feet above the level of the sea which is the approximate altitude of the entire valley the weber valley including its extension up east canyon creek is about sixteen miles in length with an average width of about two ralles miles lengthwise it extends from southeast to northwest it is well watered and the streams abound in fish bab notably the mountain trout the weber river and its tributaries tributa ries are fringed with cottonwood timber and willows the slopes of the surrounding mountains are dotted with w iab groves of pine and fir A JENSON MORGAN CITY morgan county utah august |
