Dayton versus Genoa, part 2

In 1849, a man by the name of Abner Blackburn was on his way to the gold rush that gave sudden and dramatic wealth to California and led to its establishment as a state in 1850. Blackburn was only 23 years old, but he was already a very distinguished man. In his young life he had crossed the Great Basin seven times in four years, marched in the Mormon Battalion to Santa Fe, drove horse and oxen teams for Brigham Young, was chief cook for Brigham Young and Young's family and he personally knew many of the most famous people of the time, such as; Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith, famous explorer Jim Bridger and John Sutter, the man who founded Sacramento, California.
Blackburn was part of the expedition that included John Reese, the man who built Mormon Station, which gave rise to the town of Genoa in June, 1850. A few members of the expedition stayed behind in the area that would become Dayton, Nevada in the summer of 1849 while the rest of the team headed over the mountains to California. One of these members was Abner Blackburn.
In July of 1849, Blackburn found gold in the mouth of a canyon. That canyon is now called Gold Canyon. He quickly sent word to his compatriots that had already left. Apparently some of them got the message but not all of them, because only a few of them returned. Or maybe the first ones to get the word decided to keep it to themselves so they have a greater share of the wealth. At any rate, by October of 1849, several members of the expedition returned to the Gold Canyon area and found some cabins already under construction. When the team members rejoined their friends, that brought the population of the area to 15.
The evidence says that this new town, now known as Dayton, Nevada, was occupied by a small group of people beginning in the summer of 1849 and has been continuously occupied ever since.
In May of 1851, Mrs. Lucena Parsons noted in her journal that about 200 people were living and working in the Dayton area. The initial construction of cabins in Dayton precedes the establishment of the Mormon Station Trading Post at Genoa by 11 months. Mrs. Parsons journal entry that says about 200 people were already living in Dayton was made in the same month that Orson Hyde and his group of Mormon pioneers were arriving at the abandoned trading post at Genoa to establish a new town. The trading post was established in 1850, but was abandoned at the onset of winter. There is no evidence of previous occupation of the Genoa area in 1849, which is the year Blackburn made his gold discovery at Dayton and the commencement of residential construction soon thereafter.
The facts about the construction of cabins at Dayton taking place in the summer of 1849 is mentioned in Abner Blackburn's journal.