Answering Tiff

I think that Fillmore was selected to be the first capital because Brigham said that it was located in
the center of the state. even when we weren't a state, it was pretty central to the territory. Many people had to travel great distances for the opportunity to meet together. Traveling from St. George (and Beyond) to Salt Lake City would have been a hardship and this only made it easier for the people in the southern parts of the territory to be included.