Show amm SALT LAKE city crry sept 1 1868 editor deseret news several persons residing in this city and territory have applied to me to obtain information in relation to taking the benefit of the bankrupt act of march ad 1867 i passed by the congress of the united united states in answer thereto to one and all I 1 would inform them that the law referred to made it obligatory upon all persons wishing to take the benefit of said law to file their petitions with schedules annexed with the clerk of the court of bankruptcy for the district in which such petitioner resi resided dedi previous to june 1868 after which date no person could take the benefit of said act unless he could pay fifty cents on the dollar dollar of all his liabilities except by the written consent of a majority in iti number and value of his creditors but since june 1 1868 congress has passed a supplemental bankrupt bill the principal feature of which is the extension or postponement of the fifty per e r cent clause until the first day of january a nuary nunry next AD 1869 that is any one who applies for the benefit benefit 0 of the bankrupt law law or is forced into bankruptcy before that time shall be entitled to a discharge upon his giving up his hiar property no matter how small may its value be but after january 1869 a different policy will prevail any one may apply for the benefit of the bankrupt law or he may be forced into I 1 involuntary bankruptcy by his creditors he may be declared a bankrupt but he will not receive a final discharge unless his adsetts produce fifty per cent of the amount of his debts in such case the condition of the bankrupt will truly be unfortunate he will be deprived of his property but he will be unable to go into business again without liability to his old creditors such la is the debtors situation unless he takes the benefit of said law before the finst first day of january 1869 1 I would therefore say to all who through losses misfortune or otherwise that are desirous of taking the benefit of said slid laidlaw law that the court of Bankrupt bankruptcy ei for the district of utah territory composed at present of the honorable Vill united ted States Judges drake and hoge will sit in bankruptcy in salt bait lake lite olty city whenever necessary B R H robertson Eo bertson esq leing the register Ee gister in Bankruptcy whose ace is on east temple street all pe lons ions tons and schedules thereto ann annexed exel ja k voluntary bankruptcy mastbe must be file fileti i 0 rith it the clerk of said court by giving the foregoing an insertion ja 0 your valuable palter paper all those wishing ing the information therein ci contained onta ined oan ian obtain it and act accordingly if liley they see proper W I 1 APPLEBY clerk of court of bankruptcy for the district of utah territory ENGIN ENGINEERS gERIS CAMP on the fielda nield field willow creek aug 28 1868 editor deseret news I 1 write you thinking a few items on a topic of considerable lid sid erable importance to the residents of the sait salt lake laue valley and that the proposed naw new line of the U P R B R running south of the lake would not be uninteresting to your readers there has been considerable talk lately about this line and to obtain a thorough and satisfactory account of the country gen dodge determined to send a party of engineers to prospect the country lying between Humbold humboldt wells and a point near the southern extremity of the lake running through pass tooele thoele stockton ac the great difficulty will be in lunnin running through goshute koshute pass but capt J y P mccabe mcgabe the engineer in charge of the party thinks think she he will surmount all obstacles he expects to be out some three months and to arrive in salt lake laake about the month of december we have been traveling a week and do not know when we will commence work we will leave the road twenty six miles west of this point near deep creek station and under the direction of mr bir peter worthington our guide strike for the goshute koshute pass we will then run to the humboldt wells and back again making a connection with another line run by vy capt hodge and his party after which we will go on location the only onik inconvenience we have as yet had to meet is owing to the scarcity of water we have hadbo had to carry it barrels for our stock and in canteens for ourselves the country is one vast desert for nearly sixty miles and nothing but our inferior quality of salt and sulphur water within that distance at deep delp creek we will have a change as there are a few ranches on the route we propose taking from that place they are working a silver mine with some success I 1 understand and have laid out a town there As it is getting rather late and I 1 hear the rumbling of the coach coming down the road I 1 will defer writing more until another favorable opportunity yours c C H F we are indebted to hon george A smith for the following letter from st george ST GEORGE GEORUE utah august 1868 elder george A smith R historian dear brother I 1 send you copy of letier letter ietter relating to the fire at st joseph on the muddy A ST JosE JOSEPH pir A T august 1868 bros bras E snow and andton aos Tos W young yesterday between one and two pm I 1 a fire broke out in our place doing great damage burning up nineteen rooms and nearly all of the contents it commenced on the east side of the fort at bros 0 P miles and W ers erb destroying everything of theirs in their thedr their houses also one ono wagon of bro bru streeters pers pens loaded with clothing clothing flour etc they save saved savea id nothing but w what at they had had on bros eros thomas daniel M and billingsby elijah lost all with the exception of their beds bro farmer raved saved some little of his clothing bro day saved some little of his things he is ig absent on a trip to st george this ia is the number on the east side that has sustained any loss the meeting house is burned down on the west side brothers chaflin chaffin in gibson watt cahoon caboon ferguson ana and moyes are the tho losers bros channin chaffin in gibson watt and cahoon are left nearly entirely destitute clothing I 1 flour dishes and in fact fact everything with with the exception of what they hey hadon badon had on their backs was consumed by the flame flames s ferguson fergus on saved most of his s things moyes lost nothing but his house louse the amount of damage ia is great i several 1 thousand dollars those who are in the best circumstances are the greatest losers I 1 the wind blew a stiff gale from the N E and everything being dry diry it made quick work only lasting about 30 or 35 minutes all the men with the exception of two were out at work consequently could not render any assistance I 1 I 1 fortunately no lives were lost it has left us in a critical condition some semi are moving out on to their city lots several of the brethren who are on visits north are heavy losers bros weiler weller pratt clayton clay ton and others have lost everything cause of fire some small boys went out to mak a fire to roast potatoes at the back of bros miles and streeters pers houses hones signed ALMA H amix BENNETT the above letter was brought here by bro win on the night of the on the morning of the a meeting was called in this city by president E snow to communicate the news and to call on the people for assistance clothing bedding and house furniture for the sufferers the news and a like call for assistance was immediately sent to washington santa ciara clara and toker ville A generous response ris considering the circumstances of the people was made in those settlements aud their donations are now on the way to st joseph s h 1 eav we have received a visit from the grasshoppers their depredations have been chiefly on the corn and lucerne cotton has not suffered very much here but according to last accounts the cotton on the muddy has suffered severely 11 although ll the hoppers did not arrive arrive there till monday evening the dinst our forage for stock will be rather tather scanty the coming winter the health of the people in the southern mission is unusually good this summer our heat beat has somewhat abated the highest range of thermometer in tu the shade yesterday and the day before was 1070 this morning at it is raining and thermometer is 82 the wheat crops in the dif dlf different ferent settlements tle comprising this mission are heavier than they have been any year since we came here in 1861 the people feel well in spirit and are vigorously engaged in making improvements JAMES Q G bleau BLEAK clerk of southern mission 0 ST THOMAS aus 15 1868 editor deseret iveus news dear bro for two weeks past I 1 have been doing a little at the exploring business accompanied by jno B R young esq of washington and major samuel miles of st george the bishops of this place and st joseph and several other brethren our first trip was to the pine mountains west of the upper muddy it is thirty five miles from the springs to the timber and a little work will make a good road for this country we found some very good longleaf long leaf pine and plenty of it to serve the wan wants ts of these settlements for many years but there ia Is to this as to everything else down here a very serious drawback namely lack of water we found only one small spring in all the mountain though ve we searched diligently for two days with an indian for guide this spring will be sufficient to water a few span of mules each day but it is not sufficient to generate steam for fora a saw mill it will seem very strange to many of your readers that there should be large groves of excellent pine timber growing in the mountains and no water to be found but if they were to see the country they would not be surprised for all the rocks are on edge and are very much broken so that shewa the water er leaches down and makes its ita spring springs 8 in n the valley of the muddy or somewhere el else eise seand and then the snows of wint winter erdo do not pile up into deep drifts and banks to melt slowly away but they melt as soon as the fall is over and what Is 11 not immediately taken up by the soil passes rapidly down the deep and steep gorges to the desert after thoroughly examining all the circumstances we decided that the only way for the people in these settlements to get lumber will be to build a mill at the upper muddy and haul the logs to it this will be a hard way to get lumber but it can be done and there is one advantage in it we can lumber to the best profit when your northern lumbermen are shut out of the canon canlon winter being our best season conour on our oun way back baek we located a mill site and the brethren are determined to have a mill up in double quick time our brethren down he as though their wives and children have lived on ground floors with flag roofs and no doors or windows about long enough As we passed along I 1 have made a point to get tile the number of acres aeres of cotton that is ha now growing much of which looks very well and some pieces aa as good as can be raised in south caroll carolina na at rices camp on the upper muddy they have nine and a third acres at st joseph they have sixty one acres and here they have fifty eight acres this is quite an advantage over any previous years crop and I 1 am told that the crop never before promised so lar iare large lare e a yield I 1 am very thankful to see so fine a prospect for cotton as this is about the only thing the brethren raise that can he be converted into necessaries for their families our next nest trip was to the colorado river which we reached by going down the RIo bio virgen to the junction odthe of the two rivers the distance from here is about twenty five miles the colorado is a fine stream not much broader than where we eross it east of salt lake city under the name of green river but much deeper with wi th bold banks it is navigable up to this point and for about twenty miles higher up where it emerges from a deep rocky canon canlon that is full of rapids and boulders alders bo just below the confluence odthe of the two rivers colorado and rio virgen is a very pretty town site the river describing a semicircle semi circle around a bench land of about one thousand acres and which has a mean elevation above the stream of about f nifty fifty feet the land can be irrigated by water taken out of the rio bio virgen some four miles above the soil is sandy and would be good for grapes and other fine fruits buttliere buttilere but there is very little grain growing land in the vicinity A few acres cou could id be got on the bottoms above the bench and lying along the banks of the rio bio virgen but this would bo be liable to wash away at the first flood in fact some two or three lire 0 hundred acres have been carried away during the past winter and spring ani ano very few of the experienced brethren down here would like to risk it but if a trade should spring upon up on the lower colorado this will become a place of some importance we surveyed the town site and plotted it after which we raised the biggest liberty pole we named our town junction city we thought montezuma was too heavy a name for so weak a child to carry and live at the lower end of our new town there is isa a very remarkable salt well it is tunnel shaped at the top being some fifty yards across and sloping down to the tho th water which is perhaps forty or fifty feet below the surface the water is very strong perhaps equal to the salt lake and is very clear its depth has not been ascertained though it has been sounded as deep as three or four larietta lari etts would reach it is a beautiful bathing place for good swimmers the indians look took upon it with awe they call it the eyo of the colorado and say that the spirits of all the indians that have been drowned in the river come here and live in this hole I 1 think it is a drain from the salt mountains above it the weather is very hot down this wa way as well as with you folks north as I 1 see by the NEWS you had very hot weather along back the thermometer has been at about lio llo most of the time for a month past but some nice thunder showers have given freshness and life to I 1 vegetation and I 1 think have been healthy for the people the people here can beat the cincinnati chicken factory all to pieces ali ail all they have to do to hatch out chicken chickens after the hens lay the eggs of course is to lay the eggs upon a shelf in the house and turn them over now and then and at the proper time out come the chicks chieks c now that nice keep the old hen laying and hatch the chicks in a band box I 1 onee once heard a astory story afan of an old parson who went to see adah menken in tala IAla mazeppa zeppa and when the lady was bound on to the wild horse back to back the old gent lifted up holy hands and cried out how wonderful are the mysteries of nature these are precisely my ray sentiments when I 1 look at the burnt rock arid plains of sand mountains of salt sal alkali beds and other minerals and in the midst of all this desola tion to see af animal finial and vegetable life spring and grow so rapidly but so itis and the god who gives law to all nature is also our god jos W YOUNG feeing feeding baptist ministers for performing the sacrament of baptism is the newest thing in philadelphia A clergyman lately had a fifty nifty dellar dollar greenback iyman gyman for a service of this kind |