In the diary of Arson Call the prophet is said to have predicted that he (Call) would assist in building cities from one end of the country to the other." As a striking fulfillment of that particular prophecy we cite the biography of Mr. Call as written for Tullidge's History of Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. Upon Mr. Call's arrival in what became Utah, he settled in what is now Davis County. His original homestead and descendants are still there. His worthy descendants have spread over the whole county. In 1850 he was settling in Little Salt Lake Valley, as well as in Parowan. He moved to the northern part of the state, but was subsequently placed in charge of a colonizing company of fifty families to settle in the Pauvine Valley. In 1851 he assisted in laying the foundation of the city of Fillmore, Millard County. There he built roads, constructed mills and developed farms. In 1854 he established Call's Fort, in Box Elder County, and in 1856 was sent to Carson Valley on a great colonizing expedition. He came back to Utah County in 1858, and in 1864 was engaged in colonizing in Colorado and southwestern Utah. Tullidge, the historian, says of him: "Such men as Anson Call make history. They are peculiarly adapted to the colonizing of new countries—to laying foundations of empires in a wilderness." Speaking of Davis County, one of the richest in the state, he continues regarding the work of Mr. Call thus: "He had been an important factor in the development of its resources, and he had arrived at a period of life when a man is generally less capable of great and continued exertion."

Joseph Smith's prophecy concerning the life's work of Anson Call is almost as complete a biography as that recorded half a century later by the historian. What is prophecy but history reversed?