Show HAWAIIAN COLONY from ti lie le flies f tin the writers project one c ct cf f the more colorful stories ot of varied concerns the establishment of 0 a colony for hawaiian con coi veils ivers by the church in 1889 missionaries had been working 1 9 among ant ong the IIa tor for many epars ars and between 1868 and 1869 a number of the co converts coverts verts had brought their families to utah settling in salt lake city and bountiful by 1889 the number had increased to near fafty mid and title the church determined to do something hor the group accordingly a ranch in skull valley in tooele thoele county was ivas purchased the enterprise entzi prise was called the josepa agricultural stock company named in the hawaiian tor for joseph smith in 1889 the colony of forty six Ha Hawaii ans was transferred to the ranch lanch under tinder the direction of harvy duff cluff a white avei overseer seer who was to instruct the Hawaii Ha ans in agricultural procedure the church built ten houses A t hapel chapel wild a 6 schoolhouse and had soon established a community coni munt store stoie by 1893 the colony iliad increased to more than eighty and was 1 ing in 1896 however ur at F davis county physician discovered throe three cases of leprosy at the colony and two or three others broke out ader later those stricken ilcken st with the dread disease were isolated in a separate building a mile and a ahalt away and treated extensively by the doctor hut but all the patients eventually died this is the only known record of leprosy in utah meanwhile the colony was attempting to adapt itself to utah farming and eventually become self supporting the hawaiians Ha Hawaii ans however though industrious had difficulty in adjusting themselves to rigorous on climate and the mortality rate among them was extremely high and when in 1916 the church announced plans for the construction of a temple in hawaii and offered to pay transportation of tile the group back to their homeland most of the colon tits 1 its returned turned le joyl fully to hawaii |