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surveyed in the autumn of 1849, and the place was named Centreville.

Near Centreville, in what was afterward Davis county, a settlement was begun in the spring of 1848 by Peregrine Sessions, the place being called Boun- tiful.2

As early as 1841 the country round where the city of Ogden was laid out was held as a Spanish grant by Miles M. Goodyear, who built a fort, consisting of a stockade and a few log houses, near the confluence of the Weber and Ogden rivers.^ On the 6th of June, 1848, James Brown, of the battalion, coming from California with $5,000, mostly in gold-dust, pur- chased the tract from Goodyear.* As it was one of the most fertile spots in all that region, grain and vegetables being raised in abundance, not only num- bers of the brethren from Salt Lake City, but after a while gentiles from the western states, settled there. In August 1850 Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, and others laid out the city of Ogden, so called from the name of the river.^ The

^ A little to the south of Centreville was a small settlement which at first went by the name of Call's settlement, afterward taking the name Bountiful. Utcih Early Records, MS., 132. In Sloan's Utah Gazetteer, 130-1, it is stated that there were three settlements of this name — East, West, and South Boun- tiful — West Bountiful being settled in 1848 by James Fackrell and his fam- ily. South Bountiful by George Meeyers and Edwin Page. All are now on the line of the Utah Central railroad. In January of this year Sessions also founded a settlement which bore his name, about 15 miles north of S. L. City. Harruon's Crit. Notes on Utah, MS., 45.

^ The tract is described as commencing at the mouth of Weber CaQon, following the base of the mountains north to the hot springs, thence westward to the Great Salt Lake, along the southern shore of the lake to a point opposite Weber Canon, and thence to the point of beginning. Stanford's Ogden City, MS., 1; Richards' Narr., MS., passim.

2sarr., MS.; Stanford's Ogden City, MS.
 * Some say for $1,950; others place the amount at $3,000. See Richards'

'•>Utah Early Records, MS., 112. See also S. L. C. Contributor, ii. 240; and Deseret Aews, Sept. 7, 1850. Stanford's Ogden City, MS., 1-2. The site was selected as early as Sept. 1849, on the south side of the Ogden River, at the point of bench-land between the forks of the Ogden and Weber rivers, so that water from both streams might be used for irrigation. Utah Early Records, MS., 94. North Ogden, formerly called Ogden Hole, once the resort of a noted desperado, was laid out in 1851. Amos Maj'cock, in Utah S/cetches, ]MS., 114. 'Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards,'j. M. Grant, Brigham Young, and several others ascended a sand hill, Sept. 3d, to discover the lest location for a town, which we finally decided should be on the south sidi af