Wilford serves fifth term as member of Territorial Legislature.
3rd Sunday I rode to Binghams Fort & preached in the
morning dined with Bishop Bingham I found this
to be a flourishing place well calculated for a large
city farming land good & abundant their present
population is 100 families much wheat raised but
did not learn the amount the bishop had ownly 30
bushels of tithing wheat & 15 tons of Hay the remaindr
was in the Hands of the people they had two schools ready
to commence their fort wall was 110 feet long 64
rods wide 3/4 of it was in the way of erection.
A part of soldiers band was here distributed among
the people to support & learn to work they did not like
it & seemed vary mad some were leaving their wickeups
& going to webber River. Bingham fort is 3 miles from
Ogden I left this fort & rode to Ogden Hole & preached
in the evening to a Full House Thomas Dunn is Bishop
Ogden Hole is one of the most flourishing settlemts North
of Salt Lake City. their soil vary rich & water abund[an]t
they have 47 families a school of 50 scholars their
wall is laid out 140 rods long 74 rods wide to be
built of stone 4 feet thick 10 feet high laid in morter
much of the stone is on the ground but not yet laid up
they raised 16000 bushels of wheat. the bishop Had
in hand 600 bushels of tithing wheat & 2 tons of Hay (their
wall was commen[c]ed) they had 13 Head tithing cattle in hand
about to start for the city with them. 12 mil[es]
Had a snow storm in the evening
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