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BUILDING OF A ST0CKL4DE. 265

tily constructed for the purpose by the battahon brethren.

During the next three weeks all were busily at work, tilling the soil, cutting and hauling timber, making adobes, and building, ambitious to accom- plish as much as possible before the main body of the pioneer band should start on its return journey to report to the brethren and to promote further emi- gration. The battalion brethren moved their wagons and formed a corral between the forks of City Creek. Brigham exhorted the brethren to be rebaptized, him- self setting the example, and reconfirming the elders. On the 8th of August three hundred were immersed, the services commencina^ at six o'clock in the mornino:. During the month twenty-nine log houses had been built, either with roofs or read}^ for the usual substi- tute, a covering of poles and dirt. These huts were so arranged as to carry out their plan of forming a rect- angular stockade,^^ the president and Heber C. Kim- ball being the first to take possession of their dwellings.

On the 17th of August twenty-four pioneers and forty-six of the battalion set out on their return to Winter Quarters.^^

On the afternoon of the 22d a conference was held, at which it was resolved that the place should be called the City of the Great Salt Lake. The term 'Great' was retained for several years, until changed by legislative enactment. It was so named in con- tradistinction to Little Salt Lake, a term applied

Englishman with him, na.med Wells, who had been living in New Mexico for some years.' Hist. B. You7ir/,'M.S., 1847, 109. On the •2ist A. Carrington, J. Brown, W. W. Rust, G. Wilson, and A. Calkins made the ascent of the Twin Peaks, 15 miles south-east of the stockade, and the highest mountain in the Wasatch Range, its elevation being, as they reported, 11,219 feet. These were probably the first white men M-ho ascended this mountain.

3^ They were 8 or 9 feet high, and 16 or 17 feet long, by 14 wide. Hist. B. Yonnfj, MS., 1847, 110. 'We were the first to move into the fort; our house had a door and a wooden window, which through the day was taken out for light, and nailed in at night. . .There was also a port-hole at the east end of the fort, which could be opened and closed at pleasure. . .We bad adobe chim- neys and a fire-place in the corner, with a clay hearth.' Youmfs Pioneer Women, MS., 6.

^■' 'With .34 wagons, 02 yoke of oxen, IS horses, and 14 mules, in charge of Siiadrach Uoundy and Tunis llai)pclyo. Lt Wesley Willis was in charge of the battalion men.' Richards^ Narr.,