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Show turi' 'Wli pi T ff npwr 1TIIIMHJ qnTf iij Messenger-Enterprise- Nr Thursday, December , 1, 1983 4 Pag From the Mountain of Nebo V his day. But there weren't any date palms and warm breezes for the people of Isaac Morley. What they saw in 1849 was a cool of valley shaped like a bowl. sweep There was a meandering stream dribbling its way through grass and sagebrush. They were a little awed, perhaps, by the rims of the bowl, the Sanpitch Mountains, the Wasatch Plateau, and the Moroni Uplands. There must have been deer bounding away from them in the valley flats and foothills. There were likely gaggles of geese and many ducks in the marshes, pausing on their long journeys southward for the winter. And here they were, just arriving. Maybe Jake Butterfield or any others of them may have said something like, "We dont have the sense of geese. But they pressed into the valleys depths anyway, and in the center of it they halted their wagons behind Isaac Morley to found the first white settlement between Provo and the Spanish settlements south of the Colorado River, and in that latitude the first settlement between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevadas. by Albert Antrei And Moses went up unto the mountain of Nebo . . . and the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead . . . and the land of Ephraim , . . and Menasseh. Deuteronomy 34: 1 , 2 have to go a little farther than most; Sanpete bees are sturdier, more aggressive, and they must learn to navigate by the sun and stars, for they know all the country by heart. This was a hard land with no river that led to any sea or even a decent lake. It was a land for toil and heartbreak that challenged both muscle and faith. It was nourished for a few months in the spring and summer by snowfed mountain streams, which joined parched valleys to their sustenance by means of umbilicals" in canyon gorges, much as mothers are joined to their unborn children. If there is milk in the land today, and if, indeed, there is even a little honey, none of it came without hard labor and a kind of perseverance. low-wate- r, Nobody mentioned it, but on last November 19 it was Mantis 134th birthday. That was the day Isaac Morley's wheels stopped rolling on the north bank of Manti Creek, about a half-mil- e west of what in future years would be known as the "Temple Hill. That was the day Nelson Higgins' baby got sick enough to die in a few day s; that was the day Amanda Washburn was born too. That was the day. Deuteronomy gave those people their alpha and their omega their beginning and their end, for what they were looking for was their promised land. If you have been reading anything at all about that day in 1849, you know it all as well as I do. Just change the name of Moses to Isaac Morley and substitute Anglo-Saxo- n names for Hebrew ones, and you have the picture, the picture of what drove those 224 men, women and children and their 244 cattle across the ridge between the Sanpitch Mountains and Utah's Mount Nebo. Isaac Morley knew all about Deuteronomy. Thats one reason he was The Leader. Nobody knows who actually called it "Mount Nebo for the first time, but when they crossed that divide into the Sanpete Valley they looked upon a kind of promised land, even as Moses had looked upon Canaan in damn-it-to-he- There is a New Jerusalem that arose shakily on the lower foothills of the Sanpitch Mountains, not far from the Salt Creek Pass. There is a Menasseh, where sheep and cattle are born and raised in the fields to be grazed in summer range in the highlands. On higher slopes that lead to the Wasatch Guests at the home of Mike and Debbie Munk were Mr. and Mrs. Beard from Grand Junction, Colo. They are parents of Debbie end came to spend the holiday weekend. Don and Berniece Ottoson drove to Salt Lake City Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving Day with Tom and Lorraine Gouvisis and their children Nieca and Phil. When they returned home Sunday they brought Stan and Ruth Brox of Manti with Lake. Lucien, Dona and LuDon Peterson were Thanksgiving guests at the home of Clarence and Rita Cox in Richfield. They enjoyed the traditional home cooked turkey dinner. Jeff, who is a student at Utah State, was also able to be home for the holiday. Dale Ray and Susan Peterson and two children spent Thanksgiving Day with her family, the Elmo Andersons, in Mayfield. Mrs. Genevieve Valentine kept a medical appointment in Utah County and also visited with some old friends and relatives. On Thanksgiving Day her son Harlan, Manti, Sanpete District still has tree tags available and his father, Spring City, came to share the holiday with her. Lillie Thomas had practically every member of her family home for Thanksgiving. Present were Nedra and family, Roy; Bill and Caroline and family, Richfield; Sheldon and Wilma and daughter, Gunnison. Joyce telephone from her home in Tennessee. Gregg was required to work and could not be present. Lindon The Sanpete Ranger District, Manti-LaSa- l National Forest, did not sell all of the Christmas tree tags that were available in November. The number of tags still available for the respective canyons are as listed: and Virginia Anderson children and grandchildren for the Thanksgiving holiday. Coming were Don and Judy Barrett, Granger, and Plateau dinner them. The Broxes had spent the weekend with their family in Salt welcomed their three 150 Six-Mil- e, tags. tags Spring City, 12 Manti, 18 tags Ephraim, 84 tags Twelve-Mil- 100 tags The remaining tags will be sold on following days and times at the Sanpete Ranger District Office, 150 South Main Street, Ephraim, Utah: Thursday, December 1 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, December 2 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, December 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. If you have questions, please contact the Sanpete Ranger District Office. the P YOU'RE REALLY SANTA CLAU$, SS THE NAVES P ALL VCUR REINDEER. filg Reduce the cost of personal banking service... GOLD) ACCOUNT Every personal banking service youre likely to need at NO COST or LOW COST, depending on your checking account balance. GOLD ACCOUNT SERVICES: Safe Deposit Box (where available) MasterCard or Visa Charge Card (with no annual fee) Check Guarantee Overdraft Protection d the deep Dale and Shirley Peterson cooked for 41 members of their family on Thanksgiving. A few members of the family could not be there. Attending were Leo and Louise Christensen, Centerfield; Orrin and Leona Lewis, Granger, their children and grandchildren; Hyrum and Beth Wilson, Gunnison, their children and grandchildren and Ivan and Joan S. Munk, Centerfield, and family. 835-545- Mr. and Mrs. Earl Valentine from West Valley were weekend visitors at the home of his mother and step-fathDeloy and Margaret Peterson. Deloy is still recuperating from his latest surgery, but is glad to be home. In daughters; Bonnie Mae Zabriskie and three children; Sheridan and Phyllis Smith and son Mathew, Sterling, and Bud Anderson, Erda, Utah. Please submit news items by Sunday evening to: Dona Peterson 3 Jeff Dozier from Salt Lake City came home for a short visit at Thanksgiving. In addition Gwen's sister, Maureen, also came to visit. Jeff is attending school in Salt Lake City. Winter coms to Sanpete In earnest as Lee and Judy Anderson get out snow to check their field of Christmas trees. (See story on page B1) zom cm have Christmas trees available this year. Ken Tuttle - Manti Visa Banking Card Premium Imprinted Checks (no additional cost) Unlimited Check Writing Travelers Checks Cashiers Checks and Money Orders Reduced Rate on Installment Loans Special Accident Insurance Policy Credit Card Protection Notary Service WHY PAY MORE Than these low monthly costs? 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It was not all that "land of promise they thought it should have been, having come here at the request of Brother Brigham. It was not a land of flowing milk and honey. As the omnipresent "they say, no cow gives milk; you have to strip em of it. But in Sanpete it took more than that. Cows needed a little more inducement than normal to even get them to have the milk in the first place. As for honey, bees in Sanpete The family of Virg and Helen Thomas enjoyed a family on Thanksgiving. Present were Dale and Darlene Harwood and two young daughters, Mayfield, and Steven Thomas and his family. Sterling. ll a ni jt a. hnplmrt |