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Show FROM UTAH 10 SAN JUAN. The rapid (settlement of the San Juan country bids fair to form a connection con-nection westvardly to tho Utah central cen-tral road, which is the shortest outlet to the Pacific coast. Already several parties have traveled this route from Utah, leaving the railroad at Salina, and keeping the (iuuuisou trail to the border, and thero would have been a larse emigration to San Juan, this spring but for the report that a party of five men from this territory called the Green party, which started from hero last December with a large band of cattle, wore murdered by the Indians en route. It is well known that a considerable number of renegade rene-gade Indiana from the Piute, Nava-joes, Nava-joes, Utes and Apaches roam through that region without obstruction. The nearest military station to the point wlitro ibia immlcr is said to have been committed is at the Indian agency ou the Uncomphagre river, but Lieutenant Conliue, the officer in command, to whom the murders were reported, satd he had uo orders to go into that portiou of the Indian country, coun-try, ao the Indians have again got ot ecot free, though the troop wera only sixty miles away. The sceno of thia outrage is at the La Sal mountains in Utah, where there aro abuudant iu--- dications Of gold and silver. Some Uu years ago the Mormons undertook to make a settlement at Ibis point, as the land is well adapted for farming and grazing purposes, but the Indians drove them off. Ttiey lest all their wagons anfct a large number of cattle. A. recent letter writer from tho San Juan region says : At tho last ses'hn of consrojs a bil: was mtrCKiue -d ap;ivpriati:'r $H.O to but d a military p:t m sviUhwost orav'.o. It failed with tue army appropriation appro-priation b ll; but it is oipt-ct-d wi.l pais with it at tho extra si-un. It v:u wmmcrJ'-J bythf f.'::-t,ry of wsr, General 6herrnan ar.d General P po, commii:idi:iic ibis militar.r di-p-irtmctu. It is propot;d to aban ;oa i or; Uariai.d. except as a d5ot for supplies as ii i, Sow lurround.d bystfttl:,.:,U ana has ceved to bo an Indian cuntry, iU gir-rion. gir-rion. witb additional troops to be t-a-s ft-rtd to itio mora pj-ed ironlicr. Ihe new military pot wouid keq. iu chK Hi jyh JrU'R'!! roaraa.org1 tti bordors of nouthwust Colorado, when-iht; louBdari: of Utah, Arizorial and N'cw M .!: join , Thy ,ri(:r li i: '!' ijiar'jdiiix lilt of' lha saviKU ty trie ' mjnuto;.'iUii fiiiluiu'o of a'.-auy In-' fiiinif. 'l'i;rir Bmub':r.i aro constantly-r' constantly-r' ruiti: g from tnb.M to wri-ht:jcy propt-rly belong by Indiana enukUig 0-i-Ajit: froiii jiunidinit lor criioo. and il.o wlio, tiitvt of u p.-ni-lul lll't, aro ili-.irotii of K"i'iC( on tbt) warpath and anuria tiio numo of a bravo tlirouli inuntor and plunder, with tctlpi lo sh.,w an proof of their prowig. It wa a band 'if Lbne Indium whunLiii(:kd oioi of Lbo liayden Rurv.,yinK t-xiicdiuoua two eum-rm-nt no, capturing all tboir valuable so-viiyiaji nislrum-fiu and fiuppliot, which lnoy ftrct:d llii'in to abandon al'.ur tw,i iluys iiKtitii jf Tiio party, through tho ko d fiiatirtK'jrnijiit of Gardner, in--,-urvcyi r in cnarg", P3cap"d to thu mount'iinH and arrived in HateLy to Par-'oit Par-'oit city, but, owiiiR to tint loss of thu in-b in-b ru nit-iitj, tlm survey had to bosuapendud lor that tiea-on. Ttiu nw military poet wcuM alio b tho niPaiiB of o-LablishiiiK a direct cora-muni(.'aion cora-muni(.'aion westward. It ia rcarc-ly in-rn than 2jO rnili;3 from Parrot t City to the Utah HoutriHrn railroad. A ood wa'i rJd can bumadu fr.-m the tarmi-no.'.oftho tarmi-no.'.oftho railroad to thin place, with but little trouble and ex pen its, Uint cou u liolnivelod at all aeaauns of thu year. iivcrai loaded toum cuiuQ lhro.ii,'Li Last your without diUieuky. You havo to cross Grand and i3ro'--n rivors, but thrse are fordable except in the middle ofmun-nr. ofmun-nr. Private parties aio piop-rinff Lo put on forry-boali, and, if thu travoljus-itiei travoljus-itiei it, next season they will ho bridged. The Han Juan rojriou woul 1 then havis a direct ciiiiiNiimication v.itwmd with Salt Luke City and Han Frunei-co, and this would insure the Wr iing in from that direction t-f both cap ul and popu-laLn.n. popu-laLn.n. Vi, 0 should look thuit more to the Pacilio coaet, to which wo belong, Limn eastward fur thu development uf our rcaourcm. When wo have tho Sail Lake roulo opftned, th'i tob-ytaph and connoetinjf link of railroad will piickly follow. Then wo ahall b(-tiiMio b(-tiiMio or f nir days travel from Han Pran-, Pran-, ciico. |