Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
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After our return to the camp President Young called
a council of the Quorum of the Twelve. There were present
Brigham Young Heber C. Kimball Orson Pratt Willard Richards
Wilford Woodruf George A Smith Amasa Lyman and E T.
Benson
We walked from the North camp to about
the centre between the two creeks when President Young waved
his hands and said here is the 40 acres for the Temple and the city
can be laid out perfectly square North and South East and West. We
had conversed upon the subject of the location for the Temple previous to this
It was then moved and carried that the Temple
lot contain 40 acres on the ground where we stood. It was also moved
and carried that the city be laid out into lots of 10 rods by 20 each exclusive
of the streets and into blocks of 8 lots each being 10 acres in each block and
one and a quarter in each lot
It was further moved and carried that each street
be laid out 8 rods wide and that there be a side walk on each side 20 feet
wide and that each house be built in the centre of the lot 20 feet from the
front line that there might be a uniformity throughout the city
