A History of the State of Nevada Author:Thomas Wren Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: prolxite and county courts, shall be delivered over to the order of the probate court of Great Salt Lake county." In accordance with this mandate Judge Cheste... more »r Ioveland adjourned the county court on April I3th until the first Monday in the following June, but it was not until September 3. 1860, that this branch of the judiciary was again in session. CHAPTER VI. 1857-1858. Carson County Depopulated. Brigham Young Orders Mormons Away From Western Utah, 1857—Territorial Government Again Attempted—The Petition to Congress—The Deed of Blood at Mountain Meadow—Hanging of "Lucky Bill" and the Effects Politically—1858—County Election 1858. The first contingent of Mormons to leave Eagle Valley for Salt Lake was one known as the P. G. Sessions California Mormon train, and in it were sixty-five men, women and children, with a train of seventeen wagons, forty horses and thirty-two mules. They departed on the i6th of July, and it was not until the 5th of September that the order came calling every Mormon away from western Utah. It was brought by the Conover Company Express just after sundown, and twenty-one days afterward a train load consisting of one hundred and twenty-three wagons bore away four hundred and fifty of "the Elect." among whom were persons from both Oregon and California. It took them until the 2nd day of November to reach their destination. For a time the departure of the Mormons left Washoe and Truckee valleys sparsely settled, but people from California soon came in, being able to buy for a trifle the property and improvements of the Mormons. It was not "long before the vacant places were more than filled by Gentiles and deserters from the Mormon ranks. A second attempt at territorial government was made on August 3. 1857, by the people living on the ea...« less