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The company arrived with the cattle at the foot of Utah Mountain (Jordan) on August 24." This stock was delivered to the Church Tithing Office where Bishop Hunter rehsed to receive them. They were turned across the Jordan River, and the people in Cedar City heard no more about their cattle." The southern settlements had complied with the delivery of their surplus cattle, but even with a court of inquiry regarding the six men that openly opposed this, the issue did not go away. According to the records written on August 25, 1853, from the headquarters of the Nauvoo Legion in Salt Lake City, even though the court of inquiry found the men guilty of the charges, the Governor counseled the militia to "pursue this no fiuther in consideration of the offenders and the strong interest by the people in their behalf" His advice was to discharge them and retain their guns as public property.19 California beckoned to some of the settlers who didn't agree with sending their cattle to Salt Lake and were not as dedicated, perhaps, to the building up of Zion in this desolate region. One settler, George K. Bowering, outlined two interesting entries in his journal: October 8, 1853: As several of the brethren are dissatisfied with things, and the Government of Affairs in the presiding officers being tyrannical in their rule, they are preparing to go to California. They cannot r stand it, and are preparing to a m themselves with weapons of defense. If they were followed by the officers to try and bring them back, they would try the virtue of bows and arrows, that they would not be brought back alive. October 16: Some of our California brethren started out today. In a history written by John Urie of Cedar City, he wrote: "A resolution was quickly formed and put into practice to move from the point [north of Cedar City] onto the new City Plot, which was fully accomplished in double quick time. So far as we were concerned nothing came of it beyond continual guarding and consolidation of
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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