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264 be the temple of our God." This was about five o'clock in the afternoon. An hour later it was agreed that a site should be laid out for a city in blocks or squares of ten acres, and in lots of an acre and a quarter, the streets to be eight rods wide, with side-walks of twenty feet.

At eight o'clock on the same evening a meeting was held on the temple square, and it was decided by vote that on that spot the temple should be built, and from that spot the city laid out.

On the 29th of July a detachment of the battalion, which had wintered at Pueblo, to the number of 150, under Captain James Brown, arrived in the valley; they were accompanied by fifty of the brethren who had started the year previous from the Mississippi. On the following evening a praise service for their safe arrival was held in the brush bowery, has-