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water of the stream diverted into them, while men, women, and children, armed with clubs, checked the advance of the devouring host. Enough of the crop was saved to supply the wants of the settlers, and their energy, on this occasion, coupled with a supposed

St'TTLEMENTS AT THE EnD OF 1852.

miraculous visitation of gulls, probably saved a fore- taste of the disaster of 1848/ A site for a town was

^ After this incident the water in the creek began to fail, thus for a time preventing the growth of the se'tlement. In 1880 there was a good flow of water, sutlicient for the wants of 1 ^rty families, with their orcliards, gardens, and farm lands. N. T. Porter, in Utah Sketches, MS., 177-