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.0 ., ... 0 SMITI]FIELD SERTIPEI Smithfield, Cache County, Utah, Friday, May 12, 1922 MRMORIRS OF THE OLD FORT DiPIS 'ED HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SMITHFIELD CITY There is no spot so dear to our hearts as along the banhs of the beautiful stream of water, known on the map as "Summit Creek", that comes gurgling, singing, splashing, and dashing from the mountain vales fed by the winter snows that pile in huge drifts on the craggy breast of Mt. Naomi, the lofty peak that stands so majectically at the head of what is known as Main Canyon— it is deer to our hearts vie of the present generation, thrice dear was it to the noble band of pioneer who in 1856, seeking a place to build homes rested neath the "Cotton Roods" that lined the banks of this stream. As they gazed to the East they saw the virgin forests that covered the secluded snots within the canyons from which they selected the logs to build their houses and poles to fence the lands they wished to till. All around them lay the rich and fertile soil they were to redeem by clearing the sage brush and turning water upon it. Still farther south-west and north-west were the natural me-dows and marshes from which they could secure forage for their animals, so necessary in subduing the barren wastes of this intermountain regior. The first thought of our pioneers was "water" the next like unto it "grass" without which they could not have builded so well. Stout hearts were they of the original band of 1859. Few ink number, 1.2 families in all consisting of Robert Thornley and wife, John G. Smith and wife, Seth Langton and family, Dudley Merrill and wife, Virgil Merrill and family, Eziekel Hopkios and wife and her son, Thomas Mather, Marshal Hunt and Mfe, Ira Merrill and family, Robert Langton, John Thornley and wife, Mrs. Ralmsley and. family consisting of five sons, as well as those who followed in the early sixties. The first houses were buMt west of the present townsite along the south bank of the creek near James Sheen's farm.
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Transcript | .0 ., ... 0 SMITI]FIELD SERTIPEI Smithfield, Cache County, Utah, Friday, May 12, 1922 MRMORIRS OF THE OLD FORT DiPIS 'ED HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SMITHFIELD CITY There is no spot so dear to our hearts as along the banhs of the beautiful stream of water, known on the map as "Summit Creek", that comes gurgling, singing, splashing, and dashing from the mountain vales fed by the winter snows that pile in huge drifts on the craggy breast of Mt. Naomi, the lofty peak that stands so majectically at the head of what is known as Main Canyon— it is deer to our hearts vie of the present generation, thrice dear was it to the noble band of pioneer who in 1856, seeking a place to build homes rested neath the "Cotton Roods" that lined the banks of this stream. As they gazed to the East they saw the virgin forests that covered the secluded snots within the canyons from which they selected the logs to build their houses and poles to fence the lands they wished to till. All around them lay the rich and fertile soil they were to redeem by clearing the sage brush and turning water upon it. Still farther south-west and north-west were the natural me-dows and marshes from which they could secure forage for their animals, so necessary in subduing the barren wastes of this intermountain regior. The first thought of our pioneers was "water" the next like unto it "grass" without which they could not have builded so well. Stout hearts were they of the original band of 1859. Few ink number, 1.2 families in all consisting of Robert Thornley and wife, John G. Smith and wife, Seth Langton and family, Dudley Merrill and wife, Virgil Merrill and family, Eziekel Hopkios and wife and her son, Thomas Mather, Marshal Hunt and Mfe, Ira Merrill and family, Robert Langton, John Thornley and wife, Mrs. Ralmsley and. family consisting of five sons, as well as those who followed in the early sixties. The first houses were buMt west of the present townsite along the south bank of the creek near James Sheen's farm. |
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