News and Views (Continued from Page 1) their beaver traps along the streams of the valley. Weber river originally was Weaver river and Great Salt Lake was Weaver lake, named after Pauline Weaver, an early trapper. In 1846 L. W. Hastings led the Harlen emigrants down the We¬ber river, through the Morgan country, on their way to California. At the narrows of the river the wagons were let down the rocky gorge by ropes. Thomas Thurston, Roswell Stev¬ens, Charles Shreeve Peterson and his two sons, after the arrival of the Mormon pioneers, left Centerville in the spring of 1855 and established themselves at Weber city. Then on February 19,-1872, the settlement became known as Peter¬son. Morgan county was named in honor of Jedediah Morgan Grant, father of Heber J. Grant, who had assisted many of the settlers in the pioneer period. The first county seat was at Weber city, and then at Littleton. Floods discouraged the people of Littleton and they and the county seat moved to Morgan city in 1868, while the Union Pacific was building through the valley. In 1865 the first school was open¬ed in the home of Elizabeth Couch, the teacher. In 1867 vast swarms of grass¬hoppers destroyed one-third of the crops of the farmers. Today Morgan valley is recog¬nized as one of the garden spots of Utah and the people are among the most progressive citizens of the state.