History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . Heber , Hon. George A. Smith and others went also, to assist in theselection. They directed their course to Chalk Creek, in PauvanValley, to which place Anson Call, of Davis County, and later one ofthe founders of Parowan, had been
History of Utah: comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of the provisional government of the State of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory . Heber , Hon. George A. Smith and others went also, to assist in theselection. They directed their course to Chalk Creek, in PauvanValley, to which place Anson Call, of Davis County, and later one ofthe founders of Parowan, had been directed by President Young tolead a colony. Chalk Creek was about one hundred and fifty milessouth of Salt Lake City. There, on the 29th of October, a site wasselected for the capital and a city laid out. That city, as previouslyordered by the Legislature, was named Fillmore.* Box Elder County had been settled in March of this year bySimeon Carter and others, and in September Joseph L. Heywood anda few families had begun a settlement on the present site of Nephi,Juab County. A colony organized at Payson, Utah County, and led by Amasa * Millard County was chosen as the place for the capital owing to its central geo-graphic location, but was afterwards abandoned for that purpose as the bulk of the pop-ulation was contained in the northern ^ OU^^t-v^^ HISTORY OF UTAH. 483 M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich, had started late in March forsouthern California, and had reached their destination in colony numbered about five hundred souls. Their purpose wasto found an outfitting post, similar to Kanesville, to facilitate Mormonemigration from the west. In September they purchased the ranchof San Bernardino, containing one hundred thousand acres of land,situated about fifty miles east of Los Angeles, and seventy miles fromthe Bay of San Pedro. They there founded a settlement and namedit San Bernardino. By this time Colonel John Reese and others were at Genoa, thenucleus o
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