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safety."^" WoodrufF in describing the scene says of Brigham: *'He was enwrapped in vision for several minutes. He had seen the valley before in vision, and upon this occasion he saw the future glory of Zion. . .planted in the valley."^^ Then Brigham said: "It is enough. This is the right place. Drive on." Toward noon on the 24th they reached the encamp- ment. Potatoes were planted in a five-acre patch of ploughed ground, and a little early corn.^'^

Their first impressions of the valley, Lorenzo Young says, were most disheartening.^^ But for the two or three cotton-wood trees, not a green thing was in sight. And yet Brigham speaks almost pathetically of the destruction of the willows and wild roses growing thickly on the two branches of City Creek, destroyed because the channels must be changed, and leaving nothing to vary the scenery but rugged mountains, the sage bush, and the sunflower. The ground was covered with millions of black crickets which the Indians were harvesting for their winter food.'^* An unusual number of natives had assembled for this pur- pose, and after dinner gathered about the new-comers, evincing great curiosity as to their plans.

Lumber was made in the canons, or from logs drawn thence, with whip-saws, through the entire winter;

^^Hist. B. Younrj, MS., 1847, 99.

^^ Woodruff, in t/tafi Pioneers, ISSO, 23. See also Wooditifs Journal, MS. ; Clara Younifs Experiences, MS.; Utah Early Record, MS.; Pioneer Women, MS.; Taylor's Rem., MS.

■■^^ ' I had brought a bushel of potatoes with me, and I resolved that I would neither eat nor drink until I had planted them.' Woodruff, in Utah Pioneers, 1880, 23. ' I planted the first potato. . .in Salt Lake Valley,' says Geo. A. Smith in his autobiography.

^^Mrs Clara Decker Young speaks of the distress she suffered at leaving Winter Quarters, where there were so many people and life so social; but that when she finally reached her destination she was satisfied, ' It didn't look so dreary to me as to the other two ladies. They were terribly disappointed because there were no trees, and to them there was such a sense of desolation and loneliness.' Experience of a Pioneer \l'o7na)i, MS., 5.

^' ' The Indians made a corral twelve or fifteen feet square, fenced about with sage brush and grease-wood, and with branches of the same drove them into the enclosure. Then they set fire to the brush fence, and going amongst them, drove them into the fire. Afterward they took them up by the thou- sand, rubbed off their wings and legs, and aftcr'two or three days separated the meat, which was, I should think, an ounce or half an ounce of fat to each cricket.' Early Experiences of Lorenzo Youn, MS., 4.