(Jesse Petersen) Surveyor James Simpson recorded this spring in Tooele County in 1859, several miles west of Fairfield, and named it after Charles Brewer, a U.S. Army surgeon stationed at nearby Camp Floyd. Brewer had earlier documented the horrors at the Mountain Meadows massacre site and would join the Confederate army two years later.
Brian Maffly has worked for The Tribune off and on since 1994. Maffly roams Utah, covering public land and environment.