History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

596 POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL.
north-western portion there is farming land of good
quality.
Morgan county, west of Summit, was named after
Jedediah Morgan Grant, who with Thomas J. Thurston
and others first occupied it in the spring of 1855.
In 1862 it was organized, the county seat, Morgan
City, being incorporated six years later. The village
of Milton was settled by Thurston in 1856, and Enterprise,
which together with Morgan is now on the
line of the Union Pacific, in 1862.
In 1856 a party of six brethren settled in Cache
Valley on the site of the present town of Wellsville,
Cache county, north of Weber, being organized during
the following year. Except toward the north, the
valley is surrounded by mountains, on wjiich the snow
lingers late into autumn, thus affording water for irrigation
throughout the year. Though the first attempt
at agriculture resulted in failure on account of
the severity of the climate, excellent crops were afterward
raised, and soon this section became known as
the granary of Utah. Amid the ranges are vast belts
of timber, so dense that there are places where the
sunlight never penetrates, and where the foot of man
has never trod. Minerals are also abundant, though
little utilized at present. During the year 1856 a fort
was built at Wellsville, the site of the town being laid
out in 1862, when a hundred and fifty families were
gathered there. 60 Logan City, about six miles north
of Wellsville, and the capital of Cache county, was
located by Peter Maughan in the spring of 1859, the
spot being selected on account of its rich soil and
pasture, and the ample water power afforded by the
Logan River. The first settlers drew lots for their
60 Cache co. was so called from the fact that certain trappers or emigrants
cached some goods there as they passed through; Wellsville was named for
Gen. Wells. Itichards' Utah MiscelL, MS., 4. The first house was built at
Wellsville by Peter Maughan, the first saw-mill by Esa^as Edwards, Francis
Gunnell, and Wm H. Maughan, and the first grist-mill by Dan. Hill & Co.
A school-house, which served also for meeting-house, was constructed in
1857. William II. Maughan, in Utah Sketches, MS., 33.