give adequate seating in the picnic area for members of the choir. Even the railroad cooperated by providing a special rate of fifty cents per person for the round trip from Salt Lake City. When the long-awaited day finally arrived, members, friends, and families filled the park. More than eight hundred, attended. The Choir enjoyed the area and the activities very much after the rigors of their cross country tour. The Morgan Brass Band performed for the occasion.28 Como Springs Como Springs, or Lake Como, is located on a tract of ground containing forty acres with geothermal springs of volcanic origin which have been in existence for many ages. The Weber River in ages past washed out a wide gutter, forming a pool or lake, the beginning of what is now known as Lake Como. The warm-water lake provided boys with fishing during the winter. Samuel Francis and Richard Fry, jointly purchased this and an adjoining property of eighty acres from the Union Pacific Railroad in March 1883 for $200. The hollow located on the property was named Fry Hollow in honor of Richard Fry. The land was primarily used for raising livestock, and the warm springs were not considered to be of any economic value until about 1887.29 Dr. Frederick S. Kohler, one of the first medical doctors to come to Morgan,30 drew attention to the springs when he analyzed the water and found it contained properties he said might be valuable for curing skin diseases, as well as for bathing and swimming. Later, Dr. Thomas Shore Wadsworth and Dr. C. F. Osgood analyzed the water and came to the same conclusion reached by Dr. Kohler. They urged the owners to convert the springs into a bathing resort. In 1889, Samuel Francis, Richard Fry, and Dr. T. S. Wadsworth organized a company with a capital stock of $1,500. Dr. Wadsworth was employed as general manager. The ground surrounding the lake was covered with a dense growth of underbrush which had grown up around the existing cottonwood and box elder trees. A large pond was dug out on the east end of the lake for a plunge bath. Esther Francis, wife of Samuel, suggested the name of Lake Como for the resort, in honor of a beautiful lake in Turin, Italy, where she was born. Her parents, from Saxony, Germany, had been assigned at the time of her birth to the German consul in Italy31 Esther Charlotte Emily Weisbrodt Francis was bom 24 June 1836 in Turin, Italy of German parentage. She was converted by Samuel Francis white be was a Italy- They were ~26jufy 1856. She died in Morgan 21 February 1912.