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SYSTEM OF COLONIZATION". 319

Thus we see that within less than two years after the founding of Salt Lake City, the population there had become larger than could be supported in com- fort on the city lots and the lands in their vicinity, and it had been found necessary to form new settlements toward the north and south, the latter part of the territory being preferred, as water, pasture, and land lit for tillage were more abundant. Instead of merely adding suburb to suburb, all clustering around the par- ent centre, as might have been done by other com- munities, the church dignitaries, while yet Salt Lake City was but a village, ordered parties of the brethren, some of them still barely rested from their toilsome journe}'' across the plains, to start afresh for remote and unprotected portions of a then unknown country. As new locations were needed, exploring parties were sent forth, and when a site was selected, a small com- pany, usually of volunteers, was placed in charge of an elder and ordered to make ready the proposed settle- ment. Care was taken that the various crafts should be represented in due proportion, and that the expe- dition should be well supplied with provisions, imple- ments, and live-stock.

When, for instance, at the close of 1850, it had been resolved to form a settlement in the neighbor- hood of Little Salt Lake, a notice appeared in the Deselect News of November 16th, giving the names of those who had joined the party, and calling for a hun- dred additional volunteers. They must take*with them 30,000 pounds of breadstuffs, 500 bushels of seed wheat, 34 ploughs, 50 horses, 50 beef-cattle, 50 cows, and 25 pairs of holster pistols; each man must be supplied with an axe, spade, shovel, and hoe,*^ a gun and 200 rounds

■was located in 1851 by Robt Watts and nine others. Uintah, at the mouth of Weber Cauon, was settled in 1850 by Dan. Smith and a few others. It was first called East Weber, and received its present name on the 4th of March, 1SG7, at which date the Union Pacific railroad was finished to this point. Sloan's Utah Gazetteer, 1884, passim. Of the above settlements, those which became prominent will be mentioned later.

^''The party must also have 17 sets of dra§ teeth, and of grain and grass scythes, sickles, and pitchforks, 50 «ach. , "