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Show liKSXFLORED TERRITORY. The Salt Lake papers mention -that a company of prospectors are about leaving that city with a view of prospecting pros-pecting one of the tributaries of the Colorado river for placer mines. The locality to which their steps are to be specially directed, lies ahnut fenr hundred hun-dred and fifty miles southeast of the city of the Saints. The locality mentioned men-tioned is from three to five hundred mdee southeast of the reported gold discoveries on tho Colorado, about whieh there has lately been oome excitement ex-citement in Eastern Nevada and I tah. The writer of this knows something of the section referred to. Skirting the base of the Kocky mountains lor several hundred miles towards New Mexico, there is as fine a plateau of timber land as was ever sen at any point in the Mississippi valley. Hard umber predominates oak, hickory and black walnut of the most thrifty prowth being abundant. A ions: this strip of tabie land biack, rich a..uvial is met with for the entire distance. Further up the mouum, Luwcver, and stiil lower down, where there is a precipitous brcik leading to tLe s-julLi aid wc.a;wj.:J, evidence; of miuCial wealth z-'Ji :a ;o;o.v.on. Stretching aiog tiic southwestern lase of the piateau 1 1 winch we have ai- ;n wi.l h :ri-m : r7 ; :r.' r.i..':s. This ra n triT- a-o. w; occ-:p:cJ ty a r - 1 i, .:. I o; I-i.azs, icTC.-U U.--szi tL.-.-g. Ther raised immense fields of cereals, com and vegetables, but would not allow al-low a white man. not even a Mormon, to enter their villages, or. in fact, anj pan of their domain. They have always al-ways been the implacable foes of the Arappahoes and Apaches. The sec-ion sec-ion we have referred to is the finest portion of Uncle Sam's "unexplored ;erritory, and if ever Salt Lake becomes be-comes a great railroad center, a road through this rich agricultural and mineral min-eral country to the Rio Grande and Central Texas will be built. Eureka StntineL |