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Show HO! FOR THE SOUTH. Teaming Frost Reservoirs Frisco Beaver Kauarrah Silver Reef St George. St. George. June 2, 1878. Editors Ha aid: Everything looked lovely in Salt Lake and Utah va'Ieys as we iteimie.l lor York and further euih tin a vioii to Dixie. The clerk of the weather bs ppand to S.ili Lake valley, the devastating Inwtd that have destroyed the hopes of reaideute in more e'.eva . ted poritiond. Crops never looked beiter and more promising than tupy do tbid ynr. The Utah f out hern railro.id i.-"piilt'Dg" i.-"piilt'Dg" up-talking utter the man ner nf the knights of the rail. Lon strings cf freibt cars south of S iutly now accompany the passenger trains. At York crowds of men, principally freighters, mako matters lively, and with the herds of horsea mid mule? nibbling too f canty crae, you .ivould imngino yourself at some great out fitting depot, such as we u.cd to see on the Missouri river before railroad trains. Indeed, I am bold to eay th:it there is a continuous lino of wauons going and coming betwumi Silver Reef and York, loaded down with merchandise and machinery, and loaded back with with bullion from Frisco district. It la greatly to he regretted, hut the uuth nuiit be told, tuat Dixie is hard road to travel; for il the feed be good, there is no wat?r, and if i hi re be water there is no feed lor the stock, so that the teamsters have to tack on to the-ir already overloaded teams a hurrel of water on the side. Horfes nd mules loot tolerably well, but tti-poor tti-poor cattle generally give out hi Jure eaching Kauarrah. How the luilertt the desert can manage to haul a ui ol buil.'on from Frisco to York, 144 miit-3, forSlG is an enigma. Tne luiiest and beat looking tetme gen -rahy coni'i from Sanpete. Tne worthy residents of that county have the finest animals a d the smallest whips, which no doubt accounts for! ti e "milk in tlie cueoauut." i The great question ol a water supply (or the settlements south of Utah v.-.llcy iti a very important une. More and more land is taken up every year. The division of the scanty supply will booh he a aeriou matter, and will need legislative acliou. En si nee r& will havt-. havt-. to be appointed to locate resevrnirs; ! arteeiau we!U linifl bj bored, and the ' weter eupply, which is uow use.l bu: . 'iiiee nii-iitiis in the year, mu-t t;.' 1 timitded up so th il a dtiiible quanm;. ; nf land cult fx- cultivated. Our h.j - can then tin. I li.uies in-nrer nuuic instead of tuuuiug ofl ui other places i to find laud. The reservoir question ; is receiving soiiih attention already. .Nyiiie of thL settlements ate construct ; ing them with great advantage. Thrwp at Kanarrah aro a means oi cultivating large tracts of land w hert tue water tormerly ran tn waste. The school children smg "Zion iB glowing," and tho close observer cau see a constant growth in ail the settlements. One objection I have to modt of our southern towns ia the 'teat, canine eouare in the centre of each; it seems to split the towns wide open, and make our otherwise thritty places look dio!ate. Beaver city has taken the initiative and fenced iu the equare and planted lucerne in the vacant parts. This is one of the greatest improvements to that grow lug burg, and poaka well for her rit zer.s. I'YImtre seema to have sufl red le?s by frost tnuu any ol the other places, f'be. Iccust, oak brtieh, und most tt-ndcr fruits are nearly ah killd hy th frost irom York to Kanarrah. At Prowan Borne of the rtdent-covereti rtdent-covereti their trees witii cloth. Tnis eaved the trees one night aud I am told it did not save them the second , night of the Iroat. I Ibe drivera on the south wen ; .-tage line are lull of joked about rn-1 rcdouhtahlo Stillsou while ho w. uth. I think it h a pity our Herald .lop? not have tuch a correepondent. He could make nt ws without n g ird to facte, and would be valuable to & paper economizing the truth. In a country where timber h cjarce it is hird work to keep up I'fh'graph polfis. Many of theae on the Dcaeret une are three storied, viz: first a cedar pf-Bt, Becondiy the old pn-t that has rotted ofl and now j imd to the cedar one and some scantling fasten-d to the top of tue pole witn raw hide. Ibis completii our ihree story telegraph tele-graph pole, Il is unique and peculiar to sage brush countries alone. So much baa beenaaid of the Frisco mining district in your paper that I will pass it by saying that the ooerationa in that looaiitv helD tn make uiatterB lively in theaurroucd ing towns and villages. A ready-market ready-market ia opened up for ail the country produces. Travelers going south ought to stop ofl one day at Kanarrah and visit the remarkable canons in the vicinity. Near the crest of the mountain, four miles from the town, ia a fine seam of coal 15 to 20 feet thick ol first rate quality. Much of it has been hauled to Silver R-ef, and the demand for it will increase aa the country around Leeds gels denuded of fire wood, which will not take long to eflect. All the iravel to the country known as Dixie rauat pass over the famou-Mack famou-Mack ridge, ibe mere mention ol which to a loaded teamster makes him shrug his euouldera. No worss road can be found ia Utah, but nothing daunts the hardy miner, and whether the ores are found on mountain moun-tain lop, or in the overdant valley, he is bound to have it, and this brinn me to wh t is known as Silver Reef, a locality known aa a puzzle to learned geologist. Such a circutn stance is very rare as fiuding a ledge of ailverore in aBtratum of white Bai.d stone; yet here it ia, and id immense quai. titles to. The first lacation on i the reef was in 1870. Very mtle j wia done to bring cut the district until in 1875, W T. Barbee shipped ore valued at $500, per ten. Phi-lact Phi-lact produced a ru-h to this point and many of the residents of Pioche and other localities canto pouring in, so that there is quite a town, boat-ting 18 eaioona, nine or ten atore, ntw good hotel, and quite a number u. private houses. The altitude of the Reef is 4,200 feet, 100 feet lower tl an Salt Lake city. It ia, however, oiucn warmer. It ia a mining town ol good reputation. The popular m n for breakfast ha never yet turm-1 i n The evening I etayed tbc.o m n.y ; the residents were playing at toot ball in the principal strtet. I co dialiy recommend football as superior to faro, and hope the honest miner will b tick close to the 6rnt gimo ami avoid the other. There in plenty oi chance, however, to lose his moniy as faro banks are in full blast ami a a fiiol aud bis money are soon parted, there i a hare p-wribilily that th hanks will not clune fo: want of the first named aitielo. Residents tell me that there are ten men for every one wanted, pretty much an they told me in Virginia oily that there was no chance to got a jeh then-Itintil then-Itintil some one was killed oil W T. Barboe is one of tho live ci'iz"i of the Reef. Ho hut gradual id .r.n.i teaching acbool at Kayville lo the coming millionaire of tho south. H e mill is located on the Reef and from present indications he has a permanent per-manent mine, the limits and extent nl which cannot be estimated. The numbsrof mrh now in operation ia five, viz: thi Barbee and Walker, Leds Mining company, ChriaLie Mining comDany, Pioueer Mill, Rock Chfi Mill, Asay'a arantra and leaching works, and Beveral minor niM. Your valued correbpondeut, J. E. Johnson, promises soon to iasu' a paper Echt.cs from the R . His place of buniness in Silver Reef is a kind of "Morinrn" head quarter?, fcfia son Charley and some of bis ..aughters, conduct a drug Btore and hoarding house with prh.ting office nn the si Ic. Year" ago he published the Huntsman' Fxho on Wood river, Neb., in a town of one h iif-e his own, ,tnd now he prunr- s to have nin liier F.iho wi-h a O'flerent ring l'i it. Hundreds of tea:na poir in their loads every wa-k vV'.n'-i, r-ut from Sail im on the Sevier, produce, bricks, eoal, aod rtimont t vi-iy thir.s; the country produces tiufls a ready market. mar-ket. I remember pas-iug several salt clifl'i on the Rin Virgin, near the I Colorado river. This would bring the article nearer to the Reef than hauling it from the Sevier. Pus-ibly it might pay to look after the. article nearer home. The road from Leeds to St. G.ore is better than down the ridge. Tne gardens look beautiful, and where the tiand of man has don- something, nature smiles lovingly upon his efforts. No front has hurt our Dixie this year ana the people rejnice. Harris-burg, Wnshini'ton and Middli tnn urn nrutt? places, but the view of St, George, as we round the point overlo'i ing the galley, is charming. The first object that meets the gaze is the temple, -landing out, a. it does, on the mineral fiat outside of the town, ou the very verge of civihz niou, wtiite and ipotlesH irom h.ae to summit one ot the marvels of lac indomitable energy of the good people of the sunny lauds ol southern Utah. Go south for hundreds, nay thousands of miles, and no finer edifice can he seen, and yet under the moat trying circumstances tne inhabitants in-habitants of this region have built a j temple to the Most High; not to Peter, James, nor John, but to the living God. The Mormon people are justiy proud of the achievement. The cost of the building is nBar to $750,-00U. $750,-00U. Tne height Irom base line to top of lower is 147 feet; the width, ninety six feet four inches; height of main building, eighty-four feet; ientth, HI feet eight icches. The basement is of volcanic rock; the upper part of red sindstone. Tue fruit crop in St. Georga is very .lumping and abundant, yet I am ii: formed the codling moth has put iu nt appearance there. Vegetation is iino-t ;i month ahead of Salt Lake, and Suit L tku a month ant-ad of every other place ncrto ot Kauuarah. Our country is one of extreme? Oi3 in the shade at St. George and 70 at Kauuarah, Kau-uarah, forty-five miles north, on Ihe H.ime day. Crowds from the 6urroi:nJing tut tlemeuta visit St. George daily. T..; temple makes the cit lively. Joe mining cimp) help t i; piph finan ciaiiy. Dixie is a l.ti.d of miracle;, and the greatest among toera is the plucky peoplo thai have settled il. C. K. Savage. |