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had been completed;'^ and before the end of 1851 the place began to wear the appearance of a town, among the buildings in course of erection being a flouring-mill and two hotels; manufactures were started; all were busy the livelong day at farm or workshop, and in the evening, writes Elder Isaac Higbee, in February 1852, "We have on Monday singing-school, on Tuesday lyceum, on Wednesday seventies' meeting, on Thursday prayer-meeting, on Friday spelling-school, and on Saturday the meeting of the lesser priesthood. "^^

On Dry Creek, near the head of Lake Utah and about sixteen miles northwest of Provo, a settlement was formed in 1851, named Evansville." The neighbor- ing lands were surveyed in lots of forty acres, and to each new settler as he arrived was given a plat of this size until the tract was exhausted. The soil was rich ; but here, as elsewhere in the northern part of Utah county, water was scarce. A supply was obtained by diverting a portion of the waters of American Fork creek,^^ and thereafter the affairs of the settlement prospered so rapidly that, in February 1852, the place was incorporated under the name of Lehi, or as it is sometimes written, Lehigh.

South-east of Lehi, on a plain about three miles east of Lake Utah, was founded, in 1850, a settle-

^^Deseret News, Jan. 24, 1852. Ross R. Rogers luilt the first adobe house in ISjI. Albert Jones, in Utah Sketches, MS., 53. A large building was erected in 1852 for George A. Smith, the prophet's cousin, then pi-esident of Utah CO. stake. It was afterward used as a school-house and known as the seminary. In 1851 an adobe wall was commenced, 14 feet iu height and four feet at the base. Three sides of it, with bastions, port-holes, and gates, were completed iu 1855, the finished length being then two and a half miles. A portion of this wall remained in 18S0. Id., 57. These walla were built aljout several of the settlements. ' It was usual for our people to protect themselves by building what we call a fort — a place the people could get into in tlie event of a raid. Our wall was a kind of concrete. In Mount Pleasant their walls were built of cobble rock, parts of which are now standing. At that place they put a grist-mill inside, so the Indiana couldn't cut them off. At Neplii the Indians did cut them off from their grist-mill.' Wells' Narr., MS., 60.

« Letter in DescrH News, Feb. 21, 1852,

" A few houses were built on an adjacent site by David Savage and others in 1850. David Evans, iu Utah Sketches, MS., 37.

" By a ditch seven milea in length.