History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

308 SETTLEMENT AND OCCUPATION OF THE COUNTRY.
president urged the people to move at once to their city
lots, and to build for themselves substantial dwellings,
a meeting-house, and a school-house, to fence their
gardens and plant fruit-trees, so that the place might
become a permanent settlement, and the headquarters
of the northern portion of the territory. Before the
end of the year a log structure was finished, which
served for school and meeting house, and soon afterward
the settlers commenced to build a wall for protection
against the Indians, completing it about three
'years later at a cost of some $40, 000. 6 So rapid was
the growth of the town, that in 1851 it was made a
stake of Zion, 7 divided into wards, and incorporated
by act of legislature. 8
In 1848 Isaac Morley and two hundred others settled
in the southern part of the valley of the San
Pete 9—particulars to be mentioned hereafter.
In the spring of 1849 a stockade was built and log
houses erected by the pioneer settlers of Utah count} r
,
numbering about thirty families, 10 near the Timpanogos
or Provo River, and below the point where a small
creek issuing from it discharges into Lake Utah. To
Ogden. . .A dance was instituted in the evening.' Hist. B. Young, MS., 1S49,
124.
6 Raised by taxation. Stanford's Ogden City, MS., 4.
7 Of which Lorin Farrwas appointed president, and R. Dana and David B.
Dillie councillors. Id., 3.
8 The first municipal election was held on Oct. 23d, Farr being chosen mayor,
Gilbert Belnap marshal, David Moore recorder, and William Critchellow justice
of the peace. Four aldermen and twelve councillors were also elected.
Id., 4. According to the statement of John Brown, a l'esident of Ogden in
18S4, there were 100 families in Ogden in 1S52. Brown, a native of Yorkshire,
England, came to Winter Quarters in 1S49, remained in the church for
21 years, and was then cut off at his own request. In 1SS3 he was the proprietor
of the hotel which bears his name. Two miles north of Ogden a settlement
named Lynne was formed in 1S49. Stanford's Weber Co., MS., 1. Near
Lynne a few families formed a settlement named Slaterville in 1852-3, but
on account of troubles with Indians, moved into Lynne in 1854. Id., 3. Eight
miles south-east of Ogden, at the mouth of Weber Canon, on the line of the railway,
a small settlement named Easton was formed in 1852, a branch of the
church organized, and A. Wadsworth appointed bishop. Three miles northwest
of Ogden a settlement named Marriotsville was formed in 1850 by three
families. The neighborhood was infested with wolves and bears, and near by
were the lodges of 200 Indian warriors. Id., 10.
9 So called from the name of an Indian chief. Richards' Narr., MS., 66.
10 Under the leadership of John and Isaac Higbee and Jefferson Hunt of
the battalion. Albert Jones, in Utah Sketches, MS., 54.