We arrived within eight miles of Kanab, where we made a headquarters camp at a fine spring, and trips from here and from a camp made later nearer Kanab were extended into the surrounding country.

The Mormons had a year or two before come out from the St.George direction and established this new settlement of Kanab, composed then of a stockaded square of log houses and some few neat adobe houses outside; about fifty in all.

The settlement was growing strong enough to scatter itself somewhat about the site marked off for the future town.

One of the first things the Mormons always did in establishing a new settlement was to plant fruit and shade trees, and vines, and the like, so that in a very few years there was a condition of comfort only attained by a non-Mormon settlement after the lapse of a quarter of a century.
In the valley below Kanab a base line was measured nine miles long, and from this starting-point our work of triangulating the country was carried on.

Trips with pack-trains to establish geodetic stations and examine the lay of the land were made in all directions.