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president urged the people to move at once to their city lots, and to build for themselves substantial dwellings, a meeting-house, and a school-house, to fence their gardens and plant fruit-trees, so that the place might become a permanent settlement, and the headquarters of the northern portion of the territory. Before the end of the year a log structure was finished, which served for school and meeting house, and soon after- ward the settlers commenced to build a wall for pro- tection against the Indians, completing it about three years later at a cost of some $40,000.^ So rapid was the growth of the town, that in 1851 it was made a stake of Zion,^ divided into wards, and incorporated by act of legislature.^

In 1848 Isaac Morley and two hundred others set- tled in the southern part of the valley of the Sail Pete^ — particulars to be mentioned hereafter.

In the spring of 1849 a stockade was built and log houses erected by the pioneer settlers of Utah count}- , numbering about thirty families,^*' near the Timpano- gos or Provo River, and below the point where a small creek issuing from it discharges into Lake Utah. To

0£Tden. . .A dance was instituted in the evening.' Hist. B. Young, MS., 1S49, 124.

6 Raised by taxation. Stanford's Ogden City, MS., 4.

'Of which Lorin Farrwas appointed president, and R. Dana and David B. Dillie councillors. Id., 3.

^ The first municipal election was held on Oct. 23d, Farr being chosen mayor, Gilbert Belnap marshal, David Moore recorder, and William Critchellow jus- tice of the peace. Four aldermen and twelve councillors were also elected. Id., 4. According to the statement of John Brown, a resident of Ogden in 1884, there were 100 families in Ogden in 1852. Brown, a native of York- shire, England, came to Winter Quarters in 1849, remained in the church for 21 years, and was then cut off at his own request. In 1883 he was tlie propri- etor of the hotel which bears his name. Two miles north of Ogden a settle- ment named Lynne was formed in 1849. Stanford's Weber Co., MS., 1. Near Lynne a few families formed a settlement named Slaterville in 18r)2-3, but on account of troubles with Indians, moved into Lynne in 1854. Id., 3. Eight miles south-east of Ogden, at the mouth of Weber Canon, on the line of the rail- way, a small settlement named Easton was formed in 1852, a branch of the church organized, and A. Wadsworth appointed bishop. Three miles north- west of Ogden a settlement named Marriotsville was formed in 1850 by three families. The neighborhood was infested with wolves and bears, and near by were the lodges of 200 Indian warriors. Id., 10.

3 So called from the name of an Indian chief. Pdchards' Narr., MS., G6.

^o Under the leadership of John and Isaac Higbee and Jefferson Hunt of the battalion. Albert Jones, in Utah Sketches, MS