Charles Webb, a rugged individual, who cast his lot after arriving in these valleys with those who colonized Slaterville, was a life-long neighbor of Mr. Holley. He erected an adobe house in which the family lived on a small area of land joining Mr. Holley's property. The home place representing only a small part of the old gentleman's estate at the time of his death, was purchased in recent years by Norton Bowns. The old house was replaced some years ago by the brick bungalow in which Ellen, Norton's widow, lived. Mr. Webb shared persecutions and trials of the Saints in their efforts to establish Christ's Church on the earth in this day and age, but failed to participate in religious activities as people became better established here and growing opportunities to acquire material goods became more promising. It may be that incentives to enhance worldly fortunes carried with them a greater appeal than the saving principles of the Gospel presented that caused Mr. Webb and others to renounce their religion. The old gentleman did, however, contribute to the industrial and political growth of the community and left an estate, not measured in dollars and cents, but acres of land he acquired during the years he lived here. (See Fig. 3-51). James Hutchins, one of the few enterprising men among our early pioneers, wielded considerable influence in the development of our community and became widely known even beyond the bounds of Slaterville as an industrial and political leader. The extent to which he engaged in religious activities is not definitely known, but this much is certain that"no account is given in the Church Records of his having held any position of leadership in the Church." His earthly accumulations consisted of a sizable area of land located north of Pioneer Road and joining Mr. Webbs property. The old estate on which a house and outbuildings were built at a time the trend to modern architecture commenced, was purchased several years after the death of his widow, Ellen, by John (Jack) Slater who replaced the old building with more modern structures. The old estate and part of the property originally accumulated by her father, now belongs to John's daughter, Mrs. Belva Slater Mulhall Taylor. Richard Howell, son of William Howell came to Slaterville with his parents in 1861 when a camparatively young man. During his early married life he came into possession of small parcel of land located west of the Victor Wheeler residence. Mr. Howell's first home was a log cabin that stood approximately where the home of Mrs. Emma Wheeler's stands today. This property, as was pointed out earlier in this history, was purchased by Victor's father and is now part of Victor Wheeler's widow's farm. Richard's property holdings while living at this location were increased by land he obtained elsewhere. The small farm which now belongs to Earl Knight was part of the estate he left. He built the house in which Earl and family live and spent the last years of his life there. While his land holdings were extensive, he failed as a farmer in the matter of tilling the land and raising crops. His interests in farming centered in dealing in livestock, principally cattle and horses. In the business field of buying and selling livestock, he became somewhat successful. His keen judgement of the worth of an animal, an asset he possessed, contributed most to the success of this business which eventually grew to include a thriving business of slaughtering animals: cattle, sheep, veal, and hog to supply meat for dealers to retail on the markets of Ogden City. His attention was not -40- confined alone to business transactions. Being of a nationality to which cultural things of life appealed, he loved good music and even played some musical instruments very efficiently himself. Out of love for fine horses and different species of fowl and small animal life, both domestic and wild, a badly neglected farmyard became a zoological garden in which were parrots, talking magpies, tame and wild ducks and geese, pelican and swan, a number of peacock and guinea fowl, a couple of coyotes, and two or more different breed of sheep and goats. As a horse fancier, Richard had no peers at that time. He loved good horses, was a good judge of them and owned many. The writer remembers seeing, when a small boy, a band of seventy-five or a hundred head of horses that belonged to Richard brought in from the range late in the fall to be wintered on the farm. Part of these animals naturally were of an inferior type while many of a superior breed known to race horse enthusiasts as Hamiltonian and Kentucky Whip purchased from the band by local men proved to among the best appearing and fastest animals to travel the highway. In summing up his earthly accomplishments, it is difficult to understand why one endowed with so many redeeming qualifications should so utterly fail religiously. In the light of this, it is assumed that yielding to accept a smoke and drink as friendly gesture of his business associates, he acquired habits that repelled the finer up lifting aspects of life and blighted interest in the saving principles of religion. This is only one of many such cases among our people that demonstrated the misleading dangerous power of bad habits. Jermiah Bateman, a next-door nighbor of Mr. Howell, and one of those to whom religion was more than any other thing in life, was not hampered in his belief by adversities and hardships or luring temptations to seek material goods. His main objective was to aid the building up of the Church and assist in advancing those things that would enrich the soul spiritually. In the matter of religion, according to ward records, after Mr. Bateman settled here, he spent the remaining years of his life in the service of the Church. As an active member he engaged actively in Church and ward activities, held important Church positions, one of which was ward clerk, serving in this capacity he discharged the duties of office with distinction. The writer's knowledge relative to his earthly possessions is limited to imformation solicited several years ago from Benjamin Chadwick Jr., himself a pioneer, who while many years younger, knew Mr. Bateman well and, in fact, had dealings with him. According to Mr. Chadwick's version, the Bateman farm joining property which is now the home of Earl Knight but orginially belonged to Richard Howell, and the adobe house in which the Bateman family lived, represented the extent of the old gentleman's tangible possessions. Naturally, he was concerned in accumulating goods necessary to maintain a livelihood, but did not as some did, strain his effort to become rich in the material goods of this world. To enrich himself with the spiritual things of life apparently was of prime importance, and according to Church records, he bequeathed a religious heritage worthy of emulation. In proceeding with the history, we must of necessity direct attention to -41-