History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

286 IN THE VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE.
The streets were kept open, but were barely wide
enough for travel, as the owners cultivated the space
in front of their houses. At a meeting on the 24th of
September, permission was granted to build on the lots
immediately, all buildings to be at least twenty feet from
the sidewalk; and a few days later it was voted " that
a land record should be kept, and that $1.50 be paid
for each lot; one dollar to the surveyor and fifty
cents to the clerk for recording." A council-house
was ordered to be built by tithing labor; and it was
suggested that water from the Big Cottonwood be
brought into the city; the toll for grinding grain was
to be increased, 32 and a resolution was passed against
the sale or use of ardent spirits. That all might be
satisfied, the lots were to be distributed "by ballot,
or casting lots, as Israel did in days of old." 33
On the 1st of October Brigham called the battalion
brethren together, blessed them, and thanked them
for the service they had rendered. "The plan of raising
a battalion to march to California," he said, "by a
call from the war department, was devised with a view
to the total overthrow of this kingdom, and the de-
struction of every man, woman, and child." 34
Winter was now at hand, and there was sore need
that the saints should bestir themselves. Xhe presi-
located as near together as possible, and immediately south of the city. The
line of the fence began at a steep point in the bluffs just south of the warm
springs, thence straight to the north-west corner of the fort, then from the
south-east corner of the fort, east of south, to some distance south of Mill
Creek, thence east to the bluffs a^ain, its entire length, including two sides
of the fort, being 3,63S rods. Utah Early Records, MS., 20-1. The entire
tract was 5, 153 acres, of which 8/2 acres were sown with winter-wheat, the
remainder being intended for spring and summer crops.
32 'Chas Crismon petitions that it be increased from 1-16 to 1-10; granted.'
Hist. B. Young, MS., 1848, 64.
33 ' The city plat is already allotted, and many families are at present
without lots; therefore we have deemed it expedient to run off an addition to
the city, commencing at the eastern line of the city and running east as far
as the nature of the land will allow for building purposes. Not only is this
addition necessary, but we are going to lay off a site for a city about ten milea
north, and another site about ten miles to the south of our city.' Hist. B.
Young, MS., 1848, 69.
il J/ixt. B. Young, MS., 1848, 65. This was not the case. See Hist. Col.,
vol. v. chap, xviii. , this series.