Show HISTORY OF MORGAN COUNTY continued from page 1 that they were without bread for three months and some of the time subsisted by digging wild roots in october 1863 mr peterson was set apart as presiding elder over the settlements in the northern part of the valley the first post office in the county was established at weber city with mr peterson as postmaster before the transcontinental trans continental railroad reached utah the mails were handled by means of an overland stage or pony express it often happened that months would elapse especially during the winter time between the arrival of mails but the people had to be satisfied with this service in 1861 six men came to that part of the valley and took up squatters rights they were charles boyden james carrigan john croft benjamin hibbard joshua williams and james bond they brought their families in the spring of 1862 they became prominent citizens in the north end of the valley peter anderson and family came about 1862 at an early date a school house was built on the land no now w owned by mrs alice boyden and just north of where her residence now is 1930 james bond taught school also thomas colburn A tannery was built there by phillip of salt lake city and operated by mr peterson the dye used in this vat was made from pine tree bark it was used in the manufacture of leather from which peter nielson male made shoes for the early settlers mr peterson with his sons also operated a blacksmith shop joshua williams started a sawmill saw mill in peterson at a very early day and roswell stevens also had a sawmill saw mill in that vicinity |