Show Manti Man ti History I Continued from last week weel Continued from last week From the dah dairy of Christian I. I Munk 1 we wo read Left Salt Lake on the of or orI I j October camped at Provo on oa tho the thoat at Nephi on the Just north of Fountain Green at nt that timo time called Uintah Springs on tho the and reached Allreds Allred's Ranch on the of October On the 17 wont to Mt l Pleasant and du dug potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- po- po on shares which wo we were very glad to sot got December an order came from Brigham 1 Young for Cor us to go to ManU Manti as asso I so soon au as possible Friday prepared ourselves and moved mo to Manti Monti arriving late lole in the tho evening 1 Manti l History Continued from pago page one On tho the of December moved In he Millet home This from Hans DenIson's dairy We pitched our camp near itea r Spring City There were but few houses Sago Sage and rabbit brush covered covered cov cov- ered tho ground Tho The first Dan Danish sh mooting was held in a a. little log house owned b by Hans Christian Hanson Hansen a brother of P. P 0 O. Hansen We Wo organized ourselves in companies compan ies fes of oJ ten or twelve one company would go out and cut tho dry grass so as to secure food for our cattle another to tho the mountains for logs another to tho stono quarry to get ge t out rock for building Others wen went t hr back f lr tn to P Payson vann Provo and ancl Salt SaU p. p Lake to earn some Borne mone money or provisions pro pro- provisions visions to sustain us this winter In return for our labor Some Soma go got t flour Clour some brooms nails potatoes all of which was brou brought ht homo home to the company He Ho further writes of how their potatoes were frozen there bein being no way of keeping them from tho frost flost They had to eat cat them In Inthis inthis inthis this condition for they thoy had so little else with which to sustain life Ute When President Youn Young found the situation tho they thoy were in and tho g great eat danger they were in of starvation starvation starvation and of destruction from the I Indians ho wrote a letter to the leader leador of ol the colon colony which reached them on the of ol December This letter told them to take the colony on on to Manti So preparations preparations preparations for building were abandoned On Friday December snow began be began I he-I gan an falling and continued all day packed up everything that teat could be moved and commenced their Journey to Manti ManU They had no sooner gone than tho Indians set fire to tho the houses and hay and everything left was burned Some of ot the colony had wagons and ox teams others had none Word had been sent to Manti for men and teams to come and assist in bringing bringing bringing bring bring- ing the the tho colony to Manti Mantl There Thero was not enough room In Inthe tho the fort for all so those with wagons wagons wagons wa- wa gons camped just outside Thoy They suffered very ven much from fromn cold and I F v. v 1 ua l Their bread was as made from bran branand branand branand and smutty ground wheat This with frozen potatoes was not very pal palatable table Brother Dennison quarried ried rock and built a a. sort of ot room around his wagon with a crude fireplace and chimney this for or greater warmth and a place to prepare prepare prepare pre pre- pare their food toad Every morning and evening the drum beat summoned summoned summoned sum sum- them for roll-call roll and at these times ord orders rs were given them for place and time of guard About one hour was consumed at each call Standing about in deep snow thinly clad they suffered with cold In the spring Erastus Snow came and organized the Danish meetings with Herman J J. J Christensen as s president and Niels P. P Dom Domgaard aard and MIckel Johnson ills his counselors Farnsworth's History of Manti ManU says In recounting the tho suffering suffering suffering suffer suffer- ing in the early carly days of Manti ManU the brave women who shared the toil exposure and hunger with their hu husbands bands should not be forgotten Theirs to suffer and not to and no greater epitaph can be written for the pioneer women of ManU Manti They suffered MIA fun I L'- L' O of ot hunger alike nUke Tho The cold winter storms searched their frames alike And no better word WOld can be said for any and all aU of them than that they thoy were true to the trust Imposed on them and all displayed their faith and Integrity by remaining steadfast steadfast steadfast stead stead- fast through gh all their privations and sufferings How truly this applies to this Danish Company 18 1851 J In the spring of at 1854 1851 some land was put under cultivation This was accomplished with much difficulty difficulty culty culLy because of ot lack of teams The he team the they did have were undernourished undernourished undernourished under under- nourished and weak Some wheat and other grains were planted and enough was as produced to tide tido them over OYer till the tho next year During this spring of ol 1854 1864 however th they y had hada a hard time n. n to provide even eyen scant meals for themselves They supplemented supplemented supplemented supple supple- the tho very short rations of flour for bread and the potatoes with th a green called mellon or pigweed pigweed pig pig- weed which they found growing early and rapidly One good women telling g of ot these tragic days said there were three month In the summer summer sum sum- mer mor of at 51 64 that she sho never tasted bread and in the fall before the squashes were matured she could take pieces of at them raw and eat cat as if it wre the most delicious fruit one over tasted By this time a good many of ot the colony had moved out of ot the tho forts torts and were putting up their homes some of ol logs some of at adobe and some of ot rock Some Somo of the Spring City settlers went back bacIe as far as Ephraim and built a fort |