DESCRIPTION OF MORGAN COUNTY WRITTEN BY W.R.SOAN IN 1884, IN THE UTAH GAZETTEES A FEW FACTS ABOUT MORGAN COUNTY AND CITY PEOPLE BURIED IN SOUTH ROUND VALLEY AND OTHER PLACES NOW UNMARKED MORGAN COUNTY THIS WAS WRITTEN BY W.R. SLOAN IN 1884, IN THE UTAH GAZETTEER The Union Pacific Railroad passes through Echo and Weber canyons, crossing the Weber River at an elevation of 5240 feet. It follows Weber River down thro a valley for 5 or 6 miles below Echo City to the "Thousand Mile" tree, when the mountains draw together and the first canyon commences. The valley suddelnly narrows to a gorge. The rocks tower to the sky and almost over¬hang the train. Through tunnels and over bridges, this is cleared in half a dozen miles. The mountains recede again and soften down into mere hills in in comparison. An oval valley is passed and the mountains again close in on the river, and the train enters Devil's Gate Canyon where the naked rocks rise one half mile in the air. Ages ago they presented a fixed rock dam which it seemed the river could never have conquered. But it has, and through the passage made by its per¬sistence the road soon emerges from Devil's Gate into the summer air of the valley. One gets only a slight idea of its beauty and grandeur from a ride through it on the rails. In 1884 W.W.Cluff represented Morgan, Summit Uintah and Wasatch Counties in the legislature. Municipal Government in 1884, Morgan City, Mayor, S. Francis, Counselmen: J. Tucker, J. Stuart, J. Stevenson, Wm. Hemming, Daniel Robison. Recorder T. R.G, Welch; Justices of the Peace, J. F. Welch and George Heiner. Weber City was changed to Peterson Feb 19, 1872. The first telegraph line through the county was built in connection with the railroad. The legislature in an act approved January 10, 1866 changed the boundaries of Morgan County and designated Littleton as the County seat. In 1868 Morgan City was made County seat. The court house was completed in 1883 and cost the county $3979.43. This did not include equipment. 1906 the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co. was given a 30 year franchise to maintain and operate a telephone line in Morgan Co. In 1912 C. F. Holding and F. A. Bean obtained a franchise and built a power plant in Hardscrabble canyon. The plant proved unsuccessful. During July 1914 the Utah Power and Light Co. obtained a franchise and maintained lines in Morgan Co. for electrical power. Osborne Russell passed through Weber Valley in 1841. He has left a record of his trip. He encountered many elk, mountain sheep etc. Mr. Russell was a well educated trapper who kept a journal of his western explorations. He spent the Christmas of 1840 in the cottonwood bottoms along the Weber River. Morgan City has the distinction of being the only incorparated town through which the U.P.R.R. passed when it was built from Omaha, Neb. to Ogden, Utah 1868. ---------------------- C.A.Welch. PEOPLE BURIED IN ROUND VALLEY. 1. Henry Olpin (father) Henry Olpin (son) diphtheria Sarah Ann Gibby, a baby 11 months old, died in 1876. A child of John and Dorcas Olpin Gibby. . Robert August Linberg, a young man from diphtheria. Roberts brother, about 9 or 10 years old, from the same desease A young baby of Linbergs One child was buried between Monday Town and Richville, Mr. & Mrs. John H. Rich's child. Mary Ann Hemming born 1, Feb. 1862 at Littleton, Died 5, Nov. 1863, Probably buried at Monday Town in Kingston's Field.