 There they discontinued for the first time their westward course and turned south, passing over Portage Prairie.…

After crossing Duck Creek the party entered South Prairie, to which they took quite a fancy, and after traveling over the land, examining the quality of the soil, locating the timber land and investigating the source of water supply, late in the afternoon they walked up to the highest point, which was about half a mile southwest of Zion's Church in Springvale, and there sat down on the green grass deliberating over the situation and comparing notes on the different localities through which they had passed during the week.Viewing the beautiful landscape before them and stretching in splendor for miles in every direction under the variable-colored rays of the setting sun, they deliberately 
decided to make that locality their place of future abode, hoping that they were thus forming a nucleus around which their countrymen in 
the future would gather to form a Welsh colony.After deciding on the location, they prepared to return, calling first at the Fox Lake land office to enter their claims.