The people in Salt Lake were asked to furnish teams and wagons to send to Omaha and bring immigrants to Utah. Brother Wells was asked to furnish four yoke of oxen. My brother and I went with the company. We brought in 500 immigrants. I was sixteen, and don't remember when I enjoyed a summer better than I enjoyed that one. We arrived in Salt Lake City, October 3rd. That winter Brother Wells sent me to school, which I attended for six weeks. In April 1863 Brother Wells had me go to Black Rock and herd his cattle and then his sheep. One day I happened to find a cave. It was fifty feet high, the walls were perpendicular and covered with hieroglyphics. The top seemed to be one large flat rock. Near the rear of the cave it narrowed down to a five foot hole then opened up into another cave of about thirty feet high and seven to eight feet wide and about two hundred feet long. There I found thirteen Indian skulls. The mountain on top of the cave was about five hundred feet high. I once heard Brigham Young say that every young man should learn a trade. He said, "If you want to be a carpenter, go to the carpenter and tell him you want to learn to be a carpenter. If you want to learn to be a blacksmith, go to the blacksmith to learn the trade. If you want to be a farmer, be a good farmer." I thought enough of that advice to leave my job with Brother Wells and went to work as an apprentice to James Hunter, a carpenter. I worked for four months for my board, and never received a cent. I went home that year for Christmas. My parents had settled in Morgan County. I arrived on the 24th of December. The people had built a log school house, and father said that they wanted everyone to come there and help scrub the floor so they could have a dance Christmas night. Father, Anthony, and myself went. We had a good dance Christmas night and I got acquainted with all the people. In about six weeks I told Father I thought I had better go back and finish my trade, but he said there was so much work to do that I had better stay till the crops were planted so I never went back to finish my trade. The farm had not been fenced. On the tenth of February, I took the team and went up the river and cut willows and hauled them for willow fences. On March 7th, we hitched two yoke of oxen on the plow and started to plow sage brush. We had no hay to feed them so turned them out on the hill at night. I would get up at the peep of day and go to get the oxen every morning. When I returned, Anthony and Daniel had eaten their breakfast and would yoke the oxen to the plow and start plowing. After I had my breakfast, I would go down and gather up sage brush and pile them in huge piles and then we would burn them. Morgan Pioneer History Binds Us Together We raised three hundred bushels of grain that summer, wheat, oats, and barley. There was no threshing machine in Morgan at that time. The river bridge was washed out in Devil's Gate, so they could not get a thrashing machine through. We hauled clay on a spot of ground, then soaked it well with water. We then hitched two yoke of oxen together and drove them around it to thoroughly mix it. We then smoothed it off and let it dry which left a hard smooth surface. Nells Arave made us a roller by pinning two 2x6 scantling on a long edge-ways about eight inches apart connecting them to a frame. To that we hitched two horses. We would place the wheat on the floor and turn the roller around until the grain was well thrashed out, then we raked the straw off and pushed the wheat in the middle of the floor. This same man made us a fanning mill. When we had a large pile of wheat, we could set the fanning mill up and clean the wheat. All our crops were cut by hand. Our hay was cut with a scythe, and we cut our grain with a cradle, which we raked and bound by hand. We built a granary that summer. Wheat was six dollars a bushel that fall. May 1,1864,1 was appointed a school trustee in the North Morgan School District with Thomas Grover and my brother Anthony. Each scholar paid a half bushel of wheat which was to pay the teacher. I was the secretary and Miss Lucinda Brown was hired as a teacher. In 18651 was appointed constable for the Morgan Precinct. During that year I helped to survey the town of North Morgan. December 22,1866,1 was married to Miss Mary Henderson in the Endowment House by Apostle George Q. Cannon. For a short time that winter, we lived in a one room house with my brother Anthony who married my wife's oldest sister Lucinda. In the summer I built myself a log house. Dec. 18,1867, Mary Ellen our first child was born. We named her after my wife and sweetheart. About June 1st, I crossed the Weber River with my wife and baby. I missed the ford and the team had to swim down the river about ten rods. We were all wet but came out all right. Mary Henderson Heiner 95