hopped into a field of grain at night, you could actually hour them eating so numerous and large they were. But the grasshoppers and the crickete finally left us, never to return any more, so that we were left to farm in peace, after all our trials. But our troubles were not all ended. The Indians were our next annoyance, they became very insolent would help themselves to anything they took a fancy for, killing people when they had a good shanna. They became so troublesome at one time that all the settlers found it necessary to build forts in which they could live together to defend themselves from the Indians. Wo at last, however, was able to make peace with them by feeding them. Wo when we killed any beef we gave them a part, and gave them flour and other foods thus we fought the Indians. Many of the same Indians are still around here now, living on the swill-barrels of the city, no more thought of than anyone else in the city, but the greater part of them have departed for "The happy hunting grounds" , after fighting the Indians we had a fight with the United States Government. The Mormons got into trouble with the Government by not obeying the laws, and other things. So the Government sent and army to Utah to punish and bring them into subjection. This was in the year 1859 this army was considered the finest ever fitted out for war by the United States. We organized ourselves into military companies, and went out one hundred and fifty miles to meet then before they could reach the Valley. Now the advantage we had of them was not in numbers, but it was in the knowledge as possessed of the canons, and passes in the mountains through which they would need to pass. In those canons and passes we fortified ourselves in some places in the canons, the passage was so narrow between the precipitious sides of the mountains, that there was barely room for a wagon to poos through. We dug out trenches in this canon in which we could conceal ourselves from the enemy and high up on each side of the walls. In places where there was room to stand and work, wo piled up rooks to hurl down on the heads of the army, had it undertaken to pass through the narrow defile. Hoouts were sent but by us to watch the approach and movements of 211