lever in which pleasure seeking, not spiritual devotion and how to be self-supporting, has come to be the main objective of live. Government at all levels has joined the frusade for a more abundant life of pleasure. We are alarmingly becoming more concerned in fashions and serving automobile traffic than in perpetuating simple ideals that were guides to successful living through years past. Prosperity and the luring devastating temptations of these days, are captivating the lives of our people. Highway engineers, through intensive planning have designed arterial roads and mapped super-speedways leading to or near populated centers, bulldozing their way through rugged canyons and rich agricultural land with no regard for tremendous cost to taxpayers or loss to property owners. Unfortunately, evidence seems to point to the fact that huge vested interests are backing the entire enterprise. Cluttered freeways and streets with automobiles of vacationists and the wealthy who have nothing to do but spend their time traveling and sight seeing are of no material benefit to our rural population, but are indeed, potential sources of revenue for cities and enormous profits for their business interests While this huge movement, now under way, will enhance material gains of the already well-to-do, regimentation of rural farming sections is are enslaving thousands of farm families where husband, wife, and children are struggling to retain their possessions. -16- Chapter 3 ARRIVALS AND THEIR LOCATIONS In continuing with this phase of history dealing with locations of homes of the various Pioneer families, the intent is to be as brief and concise as possible in this matter to avoid monotony. We must now accept the Utah General Depot as the east boundary line of our settlement and following from here William Field, brother to James and Joseph, whose homes were taken in by the Government, settled on the farm south of North Street in the corner west of the Supply Depot, property now owned by Clifford Blair and Levi Slater at 1772 W. 400 N. Alexander Hunter lived about a mile west on the same side of the street on property that was settled by Jacob Neilsen and this is located 1805 W. 400 N. (See Fig. 3-1,2). Back in the field beyond Four-mile Creek, a short distance from the street north of the old Hunter home, the family of Edwin Smout lived in a small log cabin which was replaced later by a unique frame structure, the dilapidated ruins of which still stands. (See Fig. 3-3,4). This homestead consisting of about two-hundred acres was settled by Thomas Thomas in 1853, and was sold to Johnathon Browning a short time later. Title to this farm was acquired by Mr. Smout from Mr. Browning for the sum of $150, who traded it to Mr. Smout for city property. Mr. Smout moved with his family from Ogden to the farm in 1869. The old gentleman allotted to each of his three older sons, Felix, Parley, and William, a small acreage on which they erected homes. The home now owned by Rose Knight, once occupied by Perry Slater on 400 North originally belonged to Parley. The state freeway has now acquired this land and the freeway runs right through the property. William owned the home now belonging to Amos Halverson 608 N. 1900 W. (See Fig. 3-5,6). Felix, the oldest son, lived in a small frame house on the corner north of Halverson's. The building stood in tact for many years after Felix passed away, but was torn down after the property passed to new ownership. George Payne, one among the earliest settlers, located across the street from the home of Perry Slater when he lived on 400 N.. Mr. Payne lived in a log cabin that stood near the street and about midway between the homes of where Thomas Middleton used to live and Neil Redford at 300 North 1800 W. As near as can be ascertained the Payne family remained in Slaterville until the latter part of the 1870's when they moved to Ogden and later to Idaho Falls, (known then as Eagle Rock). However, a few years before leaving here, Mr. Payne deserted his family, but after several years absence returned to his wife and children in the Idaho City where he spent the final years of his life. Noah Wardle, a citizen of Slaterville for many years, came here with his family From Austin, Nevada in the early 1880's and leased the Payne property where the family lived until the middle 1890's when he purchased the farm now owned by Clifford Smout 707 North 2000 W. from the Bartholomew estate and erected the house in which Clifford and family live at the present time. (See Fig. -17-