Show LE LETS I 1 T 8 WARD GUARD WHAT WHAT IP IS 13 LEFT lart by W earl rhinehart district conservationist soil conservation service CHAP TINt rock house Ad airville paria itula there me are only three airee places along the fifty mile stretch of tho the parla river where the sa sandstone d cliffs cliff widen out enough to allow profitable farming the valley Is wide enough at suan points as parla paria dann onville and lees perry ferry the flat land in and about the vicinity of parla attracted settlers alers as early as 1865 here there were alluvial flats fivas favorable for or irrigation don carlos shirts in 1866 1865 settled at rock hock house only to tobe be driven away by cavajos navajos the next year rock house was relocated in 1871 in 1872 eleven families moved in and produced planty of corn sorghum and garden truck fart farther her down the parla adair v file was founded in 1873 this soon became a prosperous community of cattlemen and farmers both the farmers at adair ville and rock house had considerable sid erable trouble with their ditches and in 1878 the fifteen families at rock house and the eight at moved upstream and settled the present site ot of paria this town prospered prospere d for several years with excellent yields in both field and garden crops numbers ot of cattle increased and their quality improved the church census of 1884 included resident members there were also uan nonresident cattlemen and about 20 plute men and women who worked on the ba basis s of half rations damaging floods in 1883 and 1884 caused this prosperity to come to a sudden end in 1885 the floods in 1884 washed away farmhouses and fields which made the narrow stream channel into a large wash A few acres downstream which were pro by rock buttresses were the only arable lands landa to remain all of the rest disappeared september of 1884 left only 48 people in the community and in 1885 the town was abandoned parla paria being on the only established trail to the ute ford now called the crossing of the fathers and the only feasible crossing of the lower parla river drainage was used as a village by both the flutes and navajos cavajos nd probably the cliff dwellers before them jacob hamblin one of tho the scouts tor for the latter day saints church visited this place many times it also served as field headquarters for expeditions under powell in 1872 wheeler in 1872 and thompson in 1875 CHAPTER n the daniel noone boone of deseret the following story was wa s written by carlton culmsee utah state agricultural college logan utah this Is a tale of the daniel doone boone of deseret it Is a story of a man with a restless eager spirit lie ile was a rare combination a latter day saint who was also a lonely trailblazer trail blazer this frontiersman was named peter he penetrated into many remote hidden valleys toured gashes of canyons he miny many summits never before troden by a white mans foot one day a warm spring in dixie peter loaded up his wagon yoked joked his oxen and plodded off to pioneer a valley he be had found to the northeast the valley of the parla paria that was the last that his dixie friends saw of him for many months they worried when he failed to return to them in the tall fall but they could not ride in search of him for snow clogged the passes they worried all winter so as soon as the spring suns sun continued on last page utah fir history astor y continued from pate page tour four opened the way they saddled their horses and rode in ques quest t of him in the red rocked valley of the parla they feared eared to fi find nd only the bones of drother brother peter but they went after a long hard journey jory they found him to their great joy and surprise he was very much alive they found him by the parla river doing some of tho the strangest pioneering ever done in tills this pioneering america he was plowing with a team not of oxen or horses but of indians A halt half dozen ragged aiutes pulled peter plow peter explained ho he told why lio 1111 had not returned the previous autumn ile he had raised a fine crop of grain but indians had stolen and eaten his oxen and had cut of hla his return he had turned hla his hut into r a tort fort from ahe the floor of it he had dug a cave to a spring so that he had plenty of pure water in the walls of the cave he dug grat grain narles aries where he stored his precious grain behind the stout walls of his cabin he withstood the siege ot of the tha indians and the onslaught of winter As cold and the tha snow deepened the indians grew famished at last they came begging to the white man who stood warm and well fed in his cabin they pled with a christian forgiveness and generosity peter gave them grain ho he kept them alive through the white moons of cold and snow but when spring sun warmed away the snow and made the soil ready for the plow peter called the indians indiana to him ile he told them you have eaten my tood food I 1 must raise more tor for another w winter inter la Is coming because you ate my oxen exert you must pull my plow and such was the firm kind courage of the man that the indians indiana did his bidding such was vas the strength and hardihood of this daniel boone of old deseret |