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Show letter from our "dixie." Johnson, Utah June 13, 1871. j Dear Herald. Absence and lack of i something enteresting to write has I prevented punctuality in correspondence. correspon-dence. I left St George about the first of June for a little rustication I away out here in. the sight of the Buckskin mountains, where self and ponies might kick up our heels upon tho green grass and enjoy ourselves to the luxury of rich milk and butter, pure cooling water and sweet grass. Leaving St. George and passing over a road much diversified, but good six miles, we passed through that rural forest City, Washington, thence ten miles over a very good road to Har-risburg. Har-risburg. Here, the grasshoppers have taken all the orops, lucerne, aud even the weeds, and had been and were doing much damage to vines and fruit trees. Tuepeople were much disheartened, as well they might be, this being the fourth year their crops havo been destroyed de-stroyed by this pest. Truly "the grass-1 hopper is a burden." Thence three j miles to Leeds, a usually thriving place, where the insect pest has been more destructive than at Harrisburg. In neither place could wo procure an ounce of feed of any sort for our team, so we were obliged to drive on at night, over a sandy road, eight miles j to Toquer, where we found grass-' grass-' hoppers abundant but as yet I enough of feed was left for our team, I so we laid by and passing over I a "tremeugus" road eight miles we ar-I ar-I rived at that oasis of verdure and fruit, i "Pocketville," or V'irgen city, where ! we enjoyed a good night's rest, and : passing on at early morn six miles, 1 made a halt at Gould's old ranch, ! thence over a good road nine miles to j "the Trough," so-called, from, there j being a small spring of water brought i down from the mountainside in spouts : and dripped into troughs for the ben- etit of herds and passing travclors. ' Thence over a road, sometimes cxcel-; cxcel-; lent and sometimes diversified with ; sand, thirteen miles, when we arrived , at Short creek, properly named, if on account of the bad quality and small I quantity of water, aud broad beds of ! sand: Here the herds of the Canaan Co-operative Stock company water and teed. Grazing is excellent and ; ranee large. iienco from Short creek, bixteen I miles, over a very good road, with ' plenty of gras, but no water, we find L- Winsor, (Pipo springs,) near which i Dr. Whit more and his partner were . : killed by the Navajo Indians, ibux ! years ago. This is a lovely place line water, grass, soil and climate, and ' . we found mine host with moss excel-; excel-; lent humor, butter and milk, and en-. en-. -joyed his hospitality most satistactor-; satistactor-; iiy. Mr. Wiusor is "doing" a large i nuuiber of cows, aud his good lady is : , an admirable dairy woman, j From insor to Kanab, 0 miles . i without water, at this season of the ,'year, over a good road, with grass ;, abundant. Here there is some trouble ' I with grasshoppers. This is a new 1. piaoe of about luu inhabitants, with a fino location for a town and excellent ' j range. liishop Levi Stewart, in charge, 1 I being absent we made thort stay and ' camo forward to this grassy, verdant, vale, where we have been now over a , week. La.it Saturday, by invitation, we; ' went out with the children and others, ! to a romantic Cedar grove, where pluy- ground;! were quickly improvised, snd a "dancing room" spread with an ucrreeabie and bountiful pick-nick, j Here the children, old and young, 1 j frolicked and played, and we played, I frolicked aud lau-hcd, till the sharles of even stole gently uud imperceptably l around I 1'esterday, Indian aireut Jacob llambiin and party passed en route for : lied Lake, to have a talk with a band iof L'ted in that vicinity. lie speaks ! very kindly of our Indiau relations, aud i feels a confidence in their permanence. No rain has fallen here this season, yet the citizens continue to plow aud plant, and watch and pray, hopeful to j the hut. There is no stream passing I down this valley, the main dependence ! being upon many small springs, which ! arc not available for farming purposes, ! but may be made subservient for town ; and garden purposes. Light niorn-' niorn-' ings ago we saw ice here, and yester-sday yester-sday the mercury went up to 102in the ! shade. Mail service to supply this place and i offices along the line has been ordered j to commence on tho first of July, j This place is being settled by the : Johnsons, who have organized co-op-! datively for stock raising and other ! purposes, and are taking a strong hold ! to develop the resources here. Uich mines are reported to have ; been discoverod across in the Buckskin Buck-skin mountains and other points not far distant. We shall see. This place was evidently occupied at some remote period by ti halt civilized tribe of somebody. Broken pottery, old ruins, hieroglyphics in the rocks, Indian mills, arrows, abound. Scenery of picturesque grandeur surrounds sur-rounds this vale ; rocks in every con-oeivable con-oeivable shape may be seen at every stop. W. 1). J., jr., is making an interesting in-teresting collection of ancient relics, curiosities and specimens in natural history and botany, all of which abound. Well, so along. Yours, J. |