Faith in the principles and doctrine of the "Restored Gospel" and ever guiding and inspiring counsel of their leaders gave them strength to buoy them up and was the driving force behind their ultimate success. Through toil and privation the foundation of a community was laid on which a great commonwealth has been built. -10- Chapter 2 INTRODUCTION TO EARLY-DAY LOCATIONS OF PIONEERS Earlier in this history space was given to a consideration of problems of a physical nature that confronted our Pioneers. How with native resources and inadequate tools they labored to erect cabins, prepare land to raise crops, dammed streams and constructed canals and ditches to divert water to the land, how hopes and aspirations in establishing a colony were blighted by loss of crops through pests and drought, and how in the face of these adversities they never lost faith but continued a heroic struggle for survival. Discouraging as conditions were during the first few years, changes in the trend of events through later developments stimulated a healthy growth which lasted for the most part uninterrupted through the years. In a history of Slaterville we would naturally expect to learn something of what might be termed the intangible as well as the physical aspects involved which pertain to location of homes, of various Pioneer families, how poss-ession of land was acquired on which they were erected, the religious, social business activities, and progress they made in the field of education. Any part of which was of no little importance in the process of colonization. In entering a discussion of these features of a history, much desired information, especially that relative to location of homes is readily obtained from present-day observations. Older members of our community, the greater number of whom claim relationship to respective Pioneer families, are familiar with names of the different families and where each located. Rising generations and new arrivals here are those most in need of enlightenment of the different phases of our community history. Time and space however, forbid a detailed account of a family's history more than where it located, except in cases where an individual performed outstanding service in the interest of the settlers or for the welfare and advancement of the colony. Either of which could have eased a probable unhappy situation at a time some were depressed because of disappointments and adversities. In turning the hands of the clock of time back to 1853, the year the influx of immigrants to the small colony commenced, we are led to believe that settlement was confined principally to the eastern part of the area, but not all who arrived that year settled there, for Richard Slater, Davis Bartholomew, Thomas Richardson, Peter Rogers, Jeremiah Bateman, and others known to have arrived this year settled the frontier near the center. James Cowan Sr. was one early settler that settled in the lower or western part of Slaterville. Steven W. Perry, Thomas Thomas, James, William, and Joseph Field, Thomas and Henry Bradshaw, William Singleton, John Knight Sr., Henry Holley Sr., and others settled the territory between the center, east, and boundary line. From year to year as more home seekers came and the easternpart became more thickly populated, naturally the trend in locating was westward, and by 1865 to 1870 the homes were very well scattered over the entire territory covered by Slaterville today. -11-