"23rd [ ] traveled on a short distance and camped on a beautiful stream and began to prepare to put in some seeds by appointing committees for different purposes [ ] were counciled by O Pratt offering up thanks to the Supreme being for our preservation and prosperity and implored his blessings to rest upon us and prosper us in our labors [ ] I was appointed one of the Committee to fix up ploughs"
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Where they finally camped was beside today's named City Creek.
On this morning, the group backtracked about a mile to avoid the very tall grass and marshy areas where Parley's, Emigration, and Red Butte Creeks converged. Then Pratt guided the wagons north from about 11th East and 17th South through present Liberty Park ending between 3rd and 4th South and between Main and State Street to an area on the east bank of the south branch of City Creek. Plowing was begun at once and that evening Pratt dedicated the land as a place for the future home of the saints.
The committee he says he was appointed to that were to make sure plows and equipment were fixed and in good order for planting consisted of Charles Harper, Charles Shumway, and Elijah Newman.
When you look at the above photo, try to visualize it as the pioneers first saw it ... that huge God-given wonderful valley where they could give thanks and sing praise to their God without the horrible persecutions as they had been through in the East. Little did they know what those plow diggings and seed plantings would bring.
