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Cache Cave
CACHE CAVE is situated east of Castle Rock station in Echo Canyon, Utah. It is a dark, deep, natural tunnel in the rock which sheltered many a hunter and trader from wild weather and wilder men before the advent of the Mormon pioneers and was a noted landmark for L. D. S. emigrant trains which crossed the plains and mountains between the Missouri River and Salt Lake during the years 1847–1869.
Apostle Orson Pratt, one of the original pioneers of Utah traveling with Pres. Brigham Young, wrote under date of July 12, 1847, as follows:
“We camped at the foot of a ledge of rock … Here is the mouth of a curious cave in the center of a coarse sandstone fronting to the south, and a little inclined from the perpendicular. The opening resembles very much the doors attached to an outdoor cellar, being about 8 feet high and 12 or 14 feet wide. We called it Redden’s Cave, a man by that name (Return Jackson Redden) being one of the first in our company who visited it. We went into this cave about 30 feet, where the entrance becoming quite small, we did not feel disposed to penetrate it any further. On the under side of the roof were several swallows’ nests.” Apostle Wilford Woodruff adds: “At the back part of the cave are large wolf dens or those of other animals. The cave is composed of light colored and very soft sandstone and many of us cut our names on the walls.”
William Clayton calls this landmark “Cache Cave” in his “Emigrants’ Guide.” It was probably so named by the early trappers who used it as a cache or hiding place.
Cache Cave is said to be the most accessible “names rock” in America and contains some very valuable and [p.105] interesting signatures, all remarkably well preserved on account of being protected from rain and wind.
Cache Stake of Zion
CACHE STAKE OF ZION (1930) consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the north part of the city of Logan and some farming districts in Cache County, Utah. It embraces eight organized bishop’s wards, namely, Benson, Hyde Park, Logan 3rd, Logan 4th, Logan 5th, Logan 9th, Logan 10th and North Logan.
In July, 1856, Peter Maughan, a resident of Tooele, was appointed by Pres. Brigham Young to take a colony of saints into the recently organized Cache County and make a settlement. Accordingly, in September of that year, a settlement was established on the site of what is now Wellsville, but which in the beginning was known as Maughan’s Fort, from the fact that the first houses were built in fort style as a protection against Indians.
In 1858, at the time of the so-called “move”, the place was temporarily vacated, but later the same year, most of the people returned and new settlers arrived. The next year other settlements were founded in Cache Valley under the direction of Pres. Peter Maughan. Pres. Maughan died April 24, 1871, after which Apostle Brigham Young, jun., had general supervision in Cache County for several years, assisted by William B. Preston, who acted as presiding Bishop in the whole county.