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 ^ and rode to Parawan
I stoped at brother Samuel West's.
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 and rode to Parawan
I stoped at brother Samuel West's.
We had a meeting at four o'clock and to a
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