History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

306 SETTLEMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THE COUNTRY.
water of the stream diverted into them, while men,
women, and children, armed with clubs, checked the
advance of the devouring host. Enough of the crop
was saved to supply the wants of the settlers, and
their energy, on this occasion, coupled with a supposed
Settlements at the End of 1852.
miraculous visitation of gulls, probably saved a foretaste
of the disaster of 1848. 1 A site for a town was
1 After this incident ths water in the creek began to fail, thus for a time
preventing the growth of the settlement. In 1S80 there was a good flow of
water, sufficient for the wants of forty families, with their orchards, gardens,
and farm lands. N. T. Porter, in Utah Sketches, MS., 177.