Show our notes motes Continued Snow storms and birch stakes the mines minem abe mountain meadows are tati ty lythe fis e miles muth of cedar city a large and and but six miles from I 1 Pai punter dier at either cither end of the valley near the two springs aie small settlements of two or three bouses occupants are finly engaged an fn in raising stock attlio at the th the e maisack maisa cn in Septem september Ixer 1857 there wis was but on one house in in the meadows occupied by the family of jacob hamlin and situated about aur four and a half balf miles from the scene of the slaughter it is due to mr to say that at the investigation instituted by judge cradlebaugh in 1858 it was satisfactorily established that he be I hamlin lamlin had bad left home general days prior to the first attack and did not return until about a week after the te mas dacre from this ibis pa pf int our road turned abruptly northward down the cation canon and across a six mile desert to creek thence in a N westerly direction to clover valley talley it a new nev and thriving settlement distant dikant from faoro the meadows dows forty five miles from this place to meadow valley over a very rough tortuous mountain road it is about twenty five live miles meadow valley like the mountain meadows surrounded by lofty lille finis runs in a neatly due north and auth south direction being fifteen miles in length and hom one and a half to three miles mile in width As we approached it il down the carion canon which opens on its en eastern aern side san striking ik ing the talley about the middle it presents a most beautiful appearance the tong long waving N wire ire grass covers its entire extent exten tand and although but recently opened up to settlement floal flocks of hep and large herds of cattle and horses borses were ei to be seen on every hand we found that the saints sainta had bad already pitched their tents sid laid out a town lown site surveyed the valley and parcelled par Ir celled out the farm lots at this time biome five families were located in the valley and as we learned not less les than twenty more were on their r way to locate there at the tipper end of the valley atley a splendid spring earing of lule lukewarm warm water bursts from under the hill bill and furnishes s in an amate supply of water forthe for the entire valley talley the little from it two or three feet wide by as many deep coursing through its whole extent while the valley is a splendid place for stock raising ind and many t 4 of the settlers about st george and washington are arc flocking thither for or that jt purpose ae as well as to work the new rn mines ines it is feared that the alkali impregnates the poll foil will rill be a great drawback to prolific or exten tire crops it should have been mentioned that at the mountain I 1 meadows Mea dovis we met a large party of Dixi eifes who A bo under the leadership of erastas erasim SOW snow president of cf tb southern 1 stal tc 71 and chief priest among the swita saints of that region were just returning from a visit to the new mines the party w were ere all in 1 n high glee and wonderfully elated at the success of af their mining enterprise it waa morer than inti anti bated to us that we were a day after the fair for the stints saints had been before us at I 1 the be rew dorado gobbled up the prize and left little for ungodly sinners like unto us al though for ome days we had noticed an evident blange in the sentiments of the mass of the in this part of the territory on the subject of mining lal luing and discovered as we went eonia perceptible loosening of the restraints bibb bet ct bind dball their more northern neighbors we mild not but express cypress some our surprise prise that a high dignitary of the chur church ch N is as traveling the he country N with iab a large prospecting party up silve eaher r leads and jumping other folks claims As we have stid this saintly jovial party were in high glee at their prospects spoke in glowing lei loiuis ins of tho the richness of thu the mines and the of the mormons cormons to work out a little of their 49 destiny 11 on silver droppings crop pings aad and not leave ill all the good things to gentile hands one of them a P well known merchant in the lower country remarked 4 somo some folks at salt lale laho think that brigham jm and the abe church are opposed 0 discovering and aror work k il byg jia ife we li abaly that tint was was the PT prevailing impression b boll 0 tb among gentiles and cormons mormons Mor mons I 1 said lie he it s al ill dollzell nonsense why liere here is 13 our Prod president dent snow and this whole party have talen taken up lip extensive claims on the partite banacka k a lead and we are arc going to work them 1 too 0 0 the st george company have located t the 1 I 1 true vein running east and west but you yon folks have located only a slide and I 1 there here is is no north or south lead in meadow valley at all I 1 lc t II yon ton added our loquacious and 6 good tempered friend with a knowing and decidedly worldly wink 1 1 I tell you there ire arc i in arter marter men in this ere party than are arc yet to be born and find it out when you got to the mines part of this we soon soan lound found to be true on arriving at the mirrel bro snow heedless of the maledictions Male wale dictions denounced against treasure seekers had bad gone in with a vim the n anole bole we found covered and spotted with stakes rioting noting leads brining r in ill every imaginable df direction and so frequently did the st geoage presidents name appear stuck in the stakes stake that it looked as though there had been a repent recent snow storm on that hut mountain and although the cedar is the prevailing wood nood of that region wo we found not a few birch bina stakes sticking in the side hills bills anion among an infinity oi of flint and limestone rock the th u whole hole party known as the st george company numbering from twenty to thirty hid had each taking up tip a silver claim the settlers far and near had flocked in and taken up claim cupoo claim while the meadow valley company had staked off feet on one lead on another and several thousand on yet another in fact the whole country has gone wild over tile the silver mines and ho however it may be with the leaders the mass of the people are in earnest and N while bile the they y nd will ill not wisely neglect their farms and flocks they propose to work the mines for themselves at proper tunes times and not net let the new comers have it au all again our space warns us UA to close without concluding our notes |