Thomas D Brown Joshua T. Willis and Charles Hopkins be
chosen and ordained as the Twelve High Councillors for this stake
of Zion.

At the close of the meeting William ^R.^ Davis was ordained a
Bishop for Fort Harmony under the hands of the first Presidency,
President Young being mouth. They also ordained Isaac
Haight to the Presidency of the Stake President Young being mouth.
The Twelve High Councillors were then set apart by Presidents Kimball
and Grant.

The following is a description of Fort Harmony at that
date. It was given me by Elder J D. Lee

Fort Harmony was two hundred rods ^feet^ square the wall
eight feet high, and when finished it was designed to be 22 feet
high forming one wall for two story buildings. The foundation
was stone and the remainder adobies. The first story was
three feet thick and the 2nd story to be two feet. The fort contained
42 rooms on the ground 15 by 16. There were 40 families and
260 persons. They had one meeting house 26 by 16 a atithing house
20 by 15 and a guard House 12 by 16. One female school was
kept; there was one public well in the Fort 86 feet deep
stoned-up and good water. They had a field of 500 acres
one half of it fenced and sown with wheat. They had but
one gate to their Fort which was to be 10 by 12 feet and one foot
thick strongly hung and could not be opened from the outside
One woman on the inside could shut it but it takes several men
to open it. They had made a farm for the Indians of
fifty acres and 25 was then in wheat. They had made a good
road from Fort Harmony to Fort Walker. One straight line of
of 12 miles was made by a machine drawn by eight yoke
^of oxen.^ We left Cedar City ^on the 21^st^ and rode to Parawan
I stoped at brother Samuel West's.

We had a meeting at four o'clock and ^to^ a

Thomas D Brown Joshua T. Willis and Charles Hopkins be chosen and ordained as the Twelve High Councillors for this stake of Zion.

At the close of the meeting William R. Davis was ordained a Bishop for Fort Harmony under the hands of the first Presidency, President Young being mouth. They also ordained Isaac Haight to the Presidency of the Stake President Young being mouth. The Twelve High Councillors were then set apart by Presidents Kimball and Grant.

The following is a description of Fort Harmony at that date. It was given me by Elder J D. Lee

Fort Harmony was two hundred feet square the wall eight feet high, and when finished it was designed to be 22 feet high forming one wall for two story buildings. The foundation was stone and the remainder adobies. The first story was three feet thick and the 2nd story to be two feet. The fort contained 42 rooms on the ground 15 by 16. There were 40 families and 260 persons. They had one meeting house 26 by 16 atithing house 20 by 15 and a guard House 12 by 16. One female school was kept; there was one public well in the Fort 86 feet deep stoned-up and good water. They had a field of 500 acres one half of it fenced and sown with wheat. They had but one gate to their Fort which was to be 10 by 12 feet and one foot thick strongly hung and could not be opened from the outside One woman on the inside could shut it but it takes several men to open it. They had made a farm for the Indians of fifty acres and 25 was then in wheat. They had made a good road from Fort Harmony to Fort Walker. One straight line of of 12 miles was made by a machine drawn by eight yoke of oxen. We left Cedar City on the 21st and rode to Parawan I stoped at brother Samuel West's.

We had a meeting at four o'clock and to a