Show T J 1 7 ByL By LETS LET'S W W. r Earl rl Soil fiR GUARD Rhinehart Conservation rt WHAT District Service l Conservationist IS 13 sc LEFT fIst V CI CHAPTER LC L' Clifton Tropic i Going i Into to the Upper Paria Parla country we find that this sec sea 1 was recognized as a suitable suitable suit suit- ion tion able site by James Andrus the Indian fighter In It was also recognized b by A. A H. H I. I Thompson of the Powell Survey In is 1871 who said that this site I bad had go good d soil was soil was well watered I that firewood coal and lumber I f Ras 35 near near extensive extensive grazing I z I land close at hand hand and and there was a favorable climate for field 1 crops and most years fruit trees 1 S' S i Guided b by these reports set set- settlers I tiers built homes at Clifton near the Junction of the Parla Paria River RI and Creek In 1874 l to 1884 1881 four other settlements r were founded These were all within the radius of six miles mUes Today Toda of these settlements only I two have grown to any appreciable t dable size sizo Cannonville Cannonville and andl l Henrieville Clifton New Clifton t r u Losee see and Georgetown have been abandoned I lIle Cannonville tho the metropolis of the ParIa Parla Valley had a population pop pop- population of in tho the earl early 5 eighties It was the home of prosperous stockmen who had over oyer 2000 square miles mlles of un un- un- un allotted land for grazing and the home homo of farmers who cultivated cultivated cultivated the tho fertile land irrigated from waters of the ParIa Parla River All usable land was being cultivated cultivated to capacity from tho the Parla Paria a River All usable land was being cultivated to capacity from Crom the Parla Paria River and its tributaries In 1886 At this time tho the Paria and it tributaries began cutting away fields with a net work of oC canyons About a third of the 1880 acreage has been washed away from the fields in and around and Henrieville Henrieville Henrie- Henrie ville villo in the form of stream laden silt North of Cannonville however there thero was still a large area of fertile land which was not covered covered covered cov cov- ered by irrigation canals from frona the Paria River To allow ample water and forestall disaster for forthe tho the increased numbers of people water for Irrigation was diverted from the East Fork of the Sevier River through a canal nino and three-quarter three miles long to lands of the Upper Paria After two years of hard labor water was flowing lowIng through tho the new town lown of Tropic and onto adjacent fields Tropic tho the largest town In tho the Paria Parla Valle Valley thus had its beginning Where local alle valleys s 's were broad west of the Parla Paria River farms were cultivated and ranch sites developed eloped between 1880 and 1900 Today only tho the Findley Ranch at Meadow Creek is continuously continuously continuously con con- occupied Homes In Swallow Park Podunk Bulrush Tick Willis Sheep Kitchen and many others have been Today tho the farmers In the Paria Parla Valley are attempting to control erosion on their fields and along the streams with the help of technical assistance of Soil SoU Conservation Service personnel personnel per per- personnel assisting tho the Paria Parla River and Tributaries Soil Conservation District CHAPTER Written Story Valley 1 In March 1935 W. W J J. J Henderson Hender Hender- son wrote from memory his recollection recollection lection of the early Paria River Rive Valley his story Ho says Jim Andrus of St. St George Utah was sent out by Brigham Young to explore what was later known as the Paria and Potato Valley coun country tr lIe He had 30 picked men with him While Whilo camped just below below be be- low the present site of Henrieville Hem Henrie- yule ville one of his men H Hy Pollock too sick to go any further Eliza Everett E Captain Charley CharIer PInney and a man b by the thc name of Rudd Ruddi i j i wro sent to taJ take e Pollock to toI I Kanab by way of the old Indian Inman trail trail Sheep Sheep Creek Willis Villis Creek Swallow Park via Kanab Ligh Everett erett was leading the party I While near the top of Everett I Hollow Hollo on the south side they were attacked by two Indians Cole Creek John and Jim Jhn Indians Indian's father Ligh was killed in his tracks and was buried at the foot of the hill hlll William DerrY Berry and Johnny Davis DaYIs Joo Joe and George Ingram explored tho T Tropic Tl Cannonville and Valleys in the thc fall of 1875 Willard Villard Heaps Lacy Peter Barker Darker were sent by Bishop Dishop of Potato Valley to look out a road up through the upper upper upper up up- per Potato Valley to They came as aa far as the present site of Henrieville In 1875 Joo Joe and Georgo Ingram brothers planted corn squash melons etc early in in the tho spring of 1876 where the Henderson Shearing Plant now stands In the summer of 1876 the following families moved in and wintered on what is now known as tho the Hito Elmer and Marion Marlon Frost farms They named the place Clifton James L L. L Thompson of or th the Mormon Battalion his wife wICo Matilda sons Brig Will Joe and also his oldest son John 0 O. and his wife Lucy and children children children chil chil- dren Jack Brig Drig Jim and Joe Davo Dave Littlefield his wHo Sarah Francis and children Almina and Waldo Valdo Dave and Eds Ed's father Waldo Valdo Littlefield Mary Wixom widow sister of Sarah Francis All these people were from Kanar Ka- Ka nar narra a Utah Ebenezer Bryce the man the famo famous s Bryco Can Canyon on was named after his wife and sons Eb Dave Bill Dill Al AI Dick Heber an and Joe and girls Ann Nell and Jane They camo came from Pine Pino Valley Washington Count County Utah Orly Bliss BUss and family from Toquerville and Ed Clayton and family from Cache Valley Jonathan Packer and wife from Brigham City Utah Nephi Packer er his wife Helen Heleh son Nephi Ne Ne- phI and daughters Helen Sadia and others came from Morgan Utah VIlda Hickman Helen Packers Packer's sister camo with them from Camp Floyd W V J. J h Henderson enderson Sr his law in John H. H Dickson came with Nephi Packer from Morgan Sam Littlefield a young oung man from Utah with about 35 Indians mado made up the winter colony under the Dump the winters of 1876 |