History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

TOOELE AND KAYSVILLE. 315
president. Tolman suggested Cedar Valley, a large
belt of cedar having been found there; but Brigham
recommended Tule, as reeds were plentiful in that
neighborhood. And so it was ordered; and this word,
spelled Tooele by Thomas Bullock, the president's
private secretary, is still applied to the town, the
site of which was discovered by Rowberry and his
comrades. 30
In the winter of 1849-50, Edward Phillips and
John H. Green proceeded northward from Salt
Lake City, intending to settle in the neighborhood
of Ogden. When within twelve miles of that place,
the snow-drifts prevented further progress, and turning
aside to Sandy Creek, or as it was later termed,
Kay Creek, where the land was covered with bunchgrass,
they resolved to take up their abode in that
neighborhood. After passing the winter in Salt Lake
City, the two men set forth in the spring of 1850, accompanied
by William Kay and others, and founded
the settlement of Kaysville. 31
In September it was
organized as a ward, Kay being appointed bishop,
with Green and Phillips as councillors. 32
In the winter of 1849-50, it was ordered by the
first presidency that Parley P. Pratt, with a company
of fifty men, should explore the southern part of the territory
in the neighborhood of Little Salt Lake. They
found the brethren at Manti well pleased with their
location, there being a good stone quarry and an abun-
30 The site was surveyed by Jesse W. Fox, under Rowberry's direction.
The first house was built by Tolman, who in partnership with Rowberry
erected a saw-mill nine miles north of the settlement. The first grist-mill
was built by Ezaias Edwards, and the first store opened by Isaac Lee. John
Rowberry and P. M. Lyman, in Utah Sketches, MS., 150. A meeting-house
24 feet square had been finished in March 1852. DeseretNews, April 17, 1852.
Twel\ e miles to the west of Tooele was a small settlement named Grantsville.
31 From 5 bushels of club-wheat, planted during this yeai", 250 bushels
were raised. Edward Phillips, in Utah Sketches, 81-2.
32 A mile and a half south of Sandy Creek was a herd-house, the property
of S. O. Holmes. Near this spot a fort was budt, surrounded with a mud.
wall.