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Show I.uGene View from the Red Point (Editors Note: View from the Red Point, a popularized account of the beginnings of Utah, by Albert Pubhshed serially in the Manti A"ir Ephraim Enterprise. A significant historical Messenger document, Red Pomt is fascinating Y.1,6" fr,om th reading. Readers t0 C,1P each installment and combine them "I8"1 at the completion of publication into a complete narrative.) South-Centr- al of the things he had accomplished on this trip was to organize a High Council. Isaac Morle was made Stake PresiJohn Lowry, Sr. was Ward Bishop, dent, and his two counsellors were Edwin Whiting and Titus Billings. For several years to come this was their government for all practical purposes, and the mayor and city council which were organized a a year later didn t do any more than their theocracy dictated. Brother Brigham admonished them when he was there in 1850 to parcel out the land, each according to his needs, and he told them to leave plenty of room in their town lots for a small orchard, some chickens, and for a garden. There was something they could tie into. Until now they had lived communally, in what might have been considered united order style. But they coutdn t wait to have something each family could call its own. They were still British enough to feel with King John s barons and colonial James Otis that each man should be Lord over his own land and feel free in his own castle. They had to do something like that anyway in order to establish a kind of squatters rights, which would tend to give them title of ownership under United States law. They had runaway from persecution in the United States, but it was never their intent to desert the United States itself. Even though those town blocks were all laid out, vou couldnt see them, and the place did not look any different after the survey than it did before, except for footprints and some corner stahes. Locating and platting a townsite were one thing, but making a town was another. Getting to work at it was the only way they knew to respond to what they took for God's promise of a miracle by way of Brother Brigham, His Heal ie Agent and Chief Abstractor. They believed with the 21st viise of hapter 32 of AlOlS failh is not to have a pel Knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope foi things which are not seen, which are true Brother Fox no sooner got his surveying tools put back in his wagon than log cabins started going up amongst the sagebrush in real earnest. Some, of course, went up even before Brother lesse had taken his transit out of its box. The first log homes that went up were mainly twelve feet wide by sixteen long, and the log walls were chinked by wedges of wood daubed with clay. The roofs were of four-inc- h poles placed close together and covered with bullrushes or coarse grass to a thickness of about a foot. This matting was then cov ered with clay from the Red Point. A larger pole was placed around the edges of the roof to keep the dirt from falling off. The pitch of the roof was not very steep, and once in a while after a heavy summer thunderstorm some of the rain soaked through to drip into the interior and leave puddles on the dirt floor. Father Morleys cabin, they said, was the very first, and it had no window, but most of them raised on Jesse's plots in 1850 and thereafter usually had one window. It was always near the door, small, and in the absence of glass, covered with cotton cloth. They figured in those days that one door was all they needed, so thats all there was for the time to take care of both coming and going. The earliest cabins had hardpacked dirt floors, but later on they split logs to lay on the ground to walk on. These logs had trimmed edges, but the trimming was far from perfect, and there must have been quite a few spaces here and there between the split logs and the walls. The social and family center was, as one might suspect, the fireplace, which also provided the family with heat, light, and a cooking fire. The fireplace itself was ordinarily 4x5x2 in dimensions, and its hearthstone was a single large stone, carefully selected to extend about two feet into the room. A swinging iron bar with a hook on the end was attached to the right side of the fireplace wall. The kettle which hung from it always had an arched handle. v The door, which usually swung on hinges of tanned animal hide, was constructed at first of very rough lumber. At first, beds were of pine boughs, but later a network of rawhide was stretched across crude frames. Mattresses, or bedticks, were filled with cattail heads, except that straw was used whenever available. For pillows they used cattails for stuffing. Quilting was a constant occupation of the women and older girls, and very likely some of the quilts made their way into 1849 Sanpete from the East, and perhaps even from overseas. g sheep herders in Since they occasionally met the valley, it is reasonable to surmise that they could buy both sheep and wool from them for spinning and quilt padding. Storage chests were made at home by the men of what has been locally identified as red pine, which in all probability was the Rocky Mountain Douglas fir, which grows in Manti Canyon at an elevation of about 8000 feet. These chests were used to store both grain and flour. There was only one loom in the settlement in 1850, and that belonged to George Pectol's wife, but nearly everybody had a American type. The smalld spinning wheel - the wheeled European spinner was not introduced until the Danes came a couple of years later. Tables and chairs were made locally, hardly ever brought in. Rough lumber was considered adequate at first for tables, and at the very first nearly all the chairs placed about the cabins were Later, those who had the skills made better chairs with four legs. They considered pinyon pine, quite abundant locally, to be the best firewood for most purposes, but they usually had to go a e or so to get it. It burned not only longer, but hotter as well. The wood was usually stacked in a days supply by the d iron stool in the fireplace fireplace, right beside a called a spider. About twelve inches high, the spider was used to put a smaller kettle or frying pan on for cooking. A mantel above the fireplace held souvenirs of other places and other times - sentimental mementoes without which life would have been somewhat less endurable. They didnt often try to explain God to each other, but they in His explained much in their lives in His name. They believed bolls. and thunder with without lightning or claps miracles, They believed in those little type miracles too. such as asking for the rain to start or to stop, and they were never surprised if what they asked for happened. They were somewhat bold in their humility. It was all right for those other Christians back in and Ohio and England Illinois and Missouri to say. "The Age of Miracles is past." but those people did not have to look the likes of Brethren Brigham and Isaac in the eye. If there was no town on Jesses 110 empty lots in July 18. 0. one was very soon to rise. That would be one of God s miracles, and all that they knew about it was that they wanted to be a small in part of it. God's miracles were still in style with them, andthe the wilderness they thought they were beginning to grasp mechanics of a good miracle a little better, they set out to do what Brother Brigham had told them to do. because any thing else would have made a fool out of him in front of the Lord. hey did not want Him to withdraw any part of His word to Brigham due to any kind of indolence or lack of faith on their pari. Nobody was to expect that the Lord handed out things such as whole towns on a platter. They were careful not to confuse the Lord s s w promises of a C ommunity here in the desert nh laddin Lamp, nor Brother Brigham with the Good Genie. It may have puzzled them that thev had a name before they had a reasonable place, but they did not find fault with that. ll that was lacking was manual labor, and these were people who hev asked God prayed for miracles with shovels in their hands. to they seem to mirailes. The faith and key for only strength have decided, is shaped much like a shovel, or like a lever of with some kind, One I s- C ; ... Spanish-speakin- -- large-wheele- three-legge- half-mil- three-legge- -- 1 elbow-greas- SERVICE for HARD of HEARING B E L T O N E It is not enough to have a surveyor draw a picture of your the town, and it is not even enough to erect log cabins all over numbered lots. Phineas T. Cook, a millwright, was sent to Manti by Brother Brigham in 1850, and Phineas put up a solid gristmill at the mouth of their canyon. It was completed in January, 1851, and Isaac Morley, who paid a third of the cost to build it to labored in it at that time. At 65. Brigham Youngs Brother Isaac was doing work in 1851 that most folks are asked to retire from today. An original stone grinding wheel installed bv Rrother Cook was cast to one side by later operators, and it a lay in the weeds east of the mill for years, until rescued by solicitous citizen and placed by the south side of Nathaniel Beech s cabin on Main Street. The wheel is made of a Kind of grinding stone found only in Iceland, and only a millwright would have known about that. mill is visible Only the lower part of the original high-ris- e today, for the new owner did not need the top half. The old mill runs are almost impossible to trace these days, but undoubtedly they could be figured out with time and patience. Nearby, Charles Shumway built a sawmill in 1851, but this two-third- s, place is even less discernible today. The only recognizeable crisis in 1850 was the Cte. Everything else was merely in short supply. To handle it you grew your own food, made your own clothes, and raised your own roof. Beginning on Monday you had six consecutive days to taki care of those shortages, Ctes or no Utes. On the seventh day you rested, whether you needed it or not. They had visitors in 1850 other than Brigham Young. Brother Walker and about 700 of his most earnest warriors came whooping around with Shoshoni scalps and captives. Walker invited his white brethren and sisters to attend the victory rites, and just to make his invitation formal he surrounded the Settlement on three sides with his Utes in warpaint, which was hard to ignore. They went to the party carefully, and they got their stomachs turned. When the first festivities began to slow down late that night they returned to their cabins and wagonbeds and dugouts, and in the subdued drumming and the flickering light of fading fires of the victory dance you can bet they slept little. Perhaps thev arose late that morning, surprised that they arose at all. It was no comfort that Isaac Morley had baptised Brother Walker into the Church just five months before, but since they did not join in the dancing the Utes continued several days more of celebration of the triumph over their tribal enemies without Brother Isaacs people. Generally speaking, they were quite used to Indians coming and going, although it took a little to get used to having them enter a white mans cabin without knocking. Knocking on a door was the white mans convention, however, and you couldnt expect the Indian to know anything about that. By 1851 George Pectol had got so used to the local culture that he dared to leave the huddle on the south side of the oolite house in Manti. It was a house of hill to raise the first non-lo- g stone, which he carted to the southwest corner of Jesses Block 105. It is there to this day, and maybe it is the oldest most house in all Utah, but its pioneer character continually lived-i- n is camouflaged by stucco and an added wing or two. Over the fireplace mantel on the west wall, somebody has engraved in the stone, May 1851. Not to be outdone. Brother John Patten went just a block y south, on the same corner of Block 96. He raised a 2 rock dwelling with variously shaped stones and rocks and a little-we- t gumbo mud and a fine sense of coordination to as geometrical a cube as a man could want. It was not elaborate, but his ll house (built without mortar) is still there after 12(1 whereas many that were built much later are no more. years, Frederick Walter Cox Sr. was not one of the original pioneers of 1849, but he came just a breath later to build his polygamy house, beginning in about 1854 on the northwest corner ol Block 65. Just to show how little Brother Jesses surveyed streets showed, Brother Cox built his house with its rear on what is the street today. The street in Brother Coxs time must have been just a mass of sagebrush, for he chose to face it to the east and the rising sun. The two doors facing on the street today were intended to be backdoors. Brother Frederick stuck his rock together with some pretty fair mortar to make the family s and he did this for four compatible wives. Big House, next door to it for one incompatible the Little House wife, Emma Peterson, and it is still there today too, but it faces west, onto the street. All of the Big House was partitioned into apartments for the four wives and their families who lived there. The attic, however, was unpartitioned, and presumably this was the where silk fibers were spun from the cocoons workroom, of the silkworm cultivated on the premises. Even in plural marriage and in a crude frontier environment the ladies had Saint is not an their minds on finer things. The Latter-da- y Amishman; he easily associates the finest things of God's Eternal Kingdom with the best there is on earth, and he saw no reason to exclude silks and satins for milady. More people came after 1851 to help with the job of building a community, and from then on they came nearly every year. Houses even in earliest pioneer times were made of every conceivable material that could be locally contrived. Log cabins, rock houses, and those made of adobe bricks gave meaning in a hurry to Jesse Foxs empty sagebrush lots by 1860. An Act of Congress, meanwhile, had created the Utah 1850 as a on 9, popular sovereignty September Territory territory, which meant in the issues of the day that slavery was to be optional to the residents of the territory. Brother Brigham but none of this made much differbecame Governor Young, ence to the people for a while, except that Isaac Morley and Charles Shumway were Sanpetes first legislative representatives. Even before George Pectol got the first rock house up the City of Manti was legally incorporated in the Territory on February 5, 1851. Right after that they got around to electing their first mayor, a Welshman named Dan Jones, the Welsh not to be confused with Daniel W. Jones, who was a Prophet, scout and interpreter for Brigham Young, and who also spent a little time in Manti. The Lord was moving things along pretty fast, even if there was no reason that anybody could see for Manti to be. there, and as a matter of fact, it wasnt - quite! Some of the people who came after 1850 were different of 1849. The Welsh came with from the original Anglo-SaxoDan Jones in 1851, and somebody said they were the first Europeans to come here, but of course they all used English with that intonation that makes the Welsh sound more like they are singing than talking. From South Wales, they nearly all hailed from Merthyr Tydvil. Germans, Norwegians, Swiss, and Swedes all came in their own good time, in small groups and individually. The largest foreign contingent to come was the Danes, who reached Sanpete Valley in 1853. Brighams folks were out to gather their Christian Israel and the scattered tribes of Gods people from many lands. s, who were the very first to lay their lives The on the line here in the wilderness must be given credit for the founding. They and their dead were here first, and as soon as you lay your dead in any ground, that ground becomes forever a part of you. At the point of their hill they buried their children in 1849 before they had even one cabin up, and they built cabins and dug graves almost simultaneously. In 1851 their young hero, Jerome Bradley, developed what they called a malignant fever in July, and they buried him at the unmellowed age of 20. He was not the first to die there, and all four of their first dead were young men and children, but with Jerome they raised their first grave marker and offically commenced their cemetery. (To be continued next week) 12-stor- dry-wa- -- 1artv her bv teacher for being an outstanding student. Ml through school she was one of the top students and upon graduation from high school was an honor student. LuGene is truly tops with her BPW CLUB. i t- Glen Johnson, right, receives check for $500 from Jay Peterson, President Sanpete Cattlemens Assn, as LaMar Mon - Ii'i purfd tha I nuTiftin s' n i v i if I" liar I a rad let .ie ( ii a e runters. tie national t v ; 1 1 c insurant c s s i o n a I s u ho hai y ro t arm'd III,' C.L.t dt'siyuul ion by inn'tiini luyli t'diwul lonal. v p e r ten i i I h ( a I and by ' 1 1 1 ! hire nit'll Is Glen Johnson, Manti cattleman, was presented with a cheek for $500 from the Sanpete Cattlemens Association for his efforts in aiding in the apprehension and conviction of a man now awaiting sentencing for cattle rustling. The check was presented recently at the annual cattlemens banquet by county president, Jay Peterson, Fairview. The banquet was held in Gunnison and was attended by nearly 50 members of the association and their wives. Convicted was a Manti man who had stolen two calves one belonging to Ned Madsen, and one belonging to Tom both of Manti. Mr. Johnsons efforts in quickly alerting law enforcement officers and his following through with blood tests and other work earned him the reward. LaMar Monroe, a Scipio rancher and president of the Utah Cattlemens Association was the guest speaker. He said "waiver of premium" clause? Is this optional extra of any real value to me? A A waiver ol premium clause provides that if vou are toiallv disabled vimr life insurance will continue at no cost during the period ol your disability. The value of ibis "optional extra" is demonstrated by the fact that every Near about .s 000. 000 ol life insurance premiums are paid dr disabled poliev holders through this provision-representipossibly S'2 billion of liliinsurance kepi in force ever) year Most ol these persons recover and return to a premium paying basis, so Ihen- - is a constant turnover id those benefit ing Will a policy pay more Q. than face value under some circumstances? A. Some will. They could, if the policy contains an acci dental death benefit provision pay double if a death before age 65 is accidental and triple if such accidental death occurs while youre a paying passenger on a common carrier such as a bus, subway, train, ship or regularly scheduled airline. What Q. is REE and Electronic Hearing Tests Better service for your hearing aid means better hearing for you. 8 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon Tues., Apr. MT. PLEASANT in the apprehension and convic tion of a man awaiting sentenc ing for cattle rustling. Manti Cattleman Gets Reward For Helping Apprehend Rustlers 11 I ii roe, Utah Cattlemens Assn, president, left, looks on. The reward was paid to Mr. Johnson for his efforts in aiding a ng - Hou-gaar- d, cattlemen are being affected more and more each day by who think they know than do the ranchers people more about the cattle industry. Monroe pointed to some of the bills being presented to mentioned wearing gas masks while working in corrals, in silos and while trailing cattle, and the wearing of ear plugs while operating equipment and the bringing of all drinking water up to EPA standards as some of the more absurd reasonings in EPA and OSHA legislation. Monroe told cattlemen of the benefits and gains made by the ANCA and urged all ranchers to support the organization. He stated that the ANCA was effective in lowering grazing fees on public lands and had sponsored legislation that was beneficial to the cattle industry. He also urged cattlemen to support a coming referendum that will raise 30 million dollars for research and the promotion of beef. Nyle Mathews, livestock specialist from Richfield, discussed the new changes made in beef grading and said that the new standards should result in leaner cuts of beef on the market. In other action, Peterson appointed the Centerfield-Ax-te- ll He Congress by the EPA and OSH A and said they were ridiculous. Mens Golf The Palisade Mens Golf will sponsor an golf tournament, the first of the year at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, April 5th at Palisade Golf Course. Members of the 1975 Palisade Mens Golf Association Association Ice-brea- are all invited to participate. The tournament will be a four-mteam, two man best ball tournament. Teams will be drawn from a hat. Entrance fee will be $2.00 plus green fees. Advance golf tickets may be used for green fees. Membership cards may be purchased at the golf course The golf course and greens are in excellent condition after being carefully nursed through the winter by club professional Gary Holman. Association president, Glen Allred is anticipating a large turn-o- ut of members to get the golf season off to a good start! an district to select a King Cowboy and said vacancies in the board would be filled in and Ephthe Fairview-Milbur- n raim areas this year. Spring Products for Home and Farm IFA IFA Compare Home Garden flower and vegetable seeds. Proven for excellent yield in Close out-2- 5 off Galvanized Full line of Northrup-Kin- g Knives Garbage Cans Seeds your best buy. Prices. Dollar for dollar & Quality 20 Gal. pocket and $3.94 hunting HERES PROOF... Thor has both high yields and staying power. knives this climate. Chick Optimil Feeders Medicated high potency supplement for nursing calves. 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