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Show ARIZONA. .Iiule Spicer Heard I'liim lie Was Nut Scalped, litil Sends (iroetiny; to His Friend's from A nzmia. Tli a C0U N IKY, INDIANS, KTC What h tic I n; Done In (he Far txmth, ntid lion It Is Aa'om-lillslit-d. j Uluhoruto 'I'uliteM ot IIhiiii'', Koule. 1 uuiituu I' litem, (. (Special CoriVflinjiidfueoofllii) UmiAl.l) ) Moan txir i ii:, Moiiavk Co., A. T., March lt. KHlors llr. aid : After a w silence, 1 again put in an Appearance before your readers, with a letter Irom this desert land.1 ince my last appearance 1 have' heaid through the papers that I had been Kll.l.KO UV lNl'UNrl ANU hi'U.I'M) iu Arizona. My lour it not woith the Indians' tune and trouble to take oil'; j it would ho a ftaud on (heir time and enterprise. I e.w a-ur) you thoy have not got it. I havo now h.-rn in this wnithern country for several months, I did not j exactly come on a "call," but on a1 mission of my own, in company with ' James L. Tihhclts. My Lincoln district enterprise g-'ttmg into a mud- ; die and running into a law mi it, w Inch was a calamity to me, I fitted out for, a prospecting excursion to Arizona; aivd for the last live months I have, been roaming over northern Arizona! in search of the rmt ot all evil. I . have explored the famous JACK I.A1..KN i' A Son j its whole length the canon that 1 Wilburn went crazy about where I Jaek Laricn could load a mule train I with nuggets of gold (the same whicn J we could not do.) llavesearciied thr . the "Ed. Howell diggin'," tlm "Nine .Mitiors' discovery," the the a duzen o' her wild reports of gold and rich mines, with what reaiilt 1 ; well, the end is nut yet. j I firl priwpocted for gold on the Colorado river, where I could iind it j everywhere. Iut too tine and light for any protitablo working. Since then I : have been in and id tout j THE NAVAJO COL'NTIiV, the Oriba or Moquitehcs (who aro the original Piublo Indians, anil whoso proper name is Ho-nee) and over i:ie country traventtd ly the Co A-winuvs, A-winuvs, Hualapis and Apaches, of all which Indians and country I will loll you in my curse of letters. I have ft'?o traveled over a large portion por-tion ot the country now being settled by the largo emigration from Utah, and will write that all up for yon in due time. I will here only , remark that at this place there ;s the country for a fine and largo settlement with gocd water and : land, and a never-ending field of pa3-! turage; that the Little Colorado! country furnishes a better location and ftdvant;ig-S than can be or ever was louud in any part of L'tah plenty of good laud for u g.xl-sizvd Jerman kingdom, plenty of water, and such a range for stock of all kinds is not equalled any where that I have ever been. On the bvueh surrounding surround-ing the SAN FKANClsCO ANl ADJOISINU HILLS for a hundred nul.-s in extent, aie t forests of tti Gnfst limber 1 ever saw tl in any country; pines ot aii kind;, , ti.-s anil occasionally oak. These t c timber forests are only from fifteen to j thirty miles from where the settle- h ments will be made, over level coun-'j, try for roads. Tins San Francisco, mountain is nn the divide between n the laud and forests, watered by the l! streams running one way into the r Gila river aud the other way into the t Little Colorado, formerly called Flax river and by the Indians Wolf creek. t1 This San Francisco mountain is only , t a great peat no range or cones of , f peaks, and is known to the Indians by the name of Snow Peak or Nu-1 . vah-tu-que or as they pronounce it in , their way, Nu-vat-a-ka-hc, which I s suggest is a better maie than San v Francisco. r As many of your readers are now looking with iuleresU towanls this country, I will now givo you the ! E01TE?, DISTANCES, ETC., j as I found them. Starting from Beaver, it is: j " To Panguiteh, forty-five miles. ' I To Clear Water (Asay's) twenty : m iles. To Upper Kanab, (Roundy's) nine I miles. 1 To Kanab, twenty-five miles. To Navajo Wells, seventeen miles. Or about the same distance to go by the way of Long valley from Asay's ; to Kanab, and about the same to go j hy way of Johnson's from Upper , Kanab to Navajo Wells. To go down from Beaver, by way of Parowau, I Cedar city and Toquerville is much 1 farmer, but in the winter and muddy season it is about the only pass ible route, as there is a good road to Toquerville, thence nine miles up the Hurricane bill to Workman's, thence ten miles to Sheep Trougns, ten miles to Short creek, twenty miles to Windsor castle, and eighteen miles to Kanab. On all these routes there is plenty of grass and water. Now, then, from Navajo Wells, where there are wood, water and graas, it is thirty-three miles to House rock, without water, as follows fol-lows : To foot of Buckskin mountains, seven miles. Oyer Buckskin mountains, fourteen four-teen miles. Thence to House rock, two miles. Good wood, water and grass. From House rock to Jacob's Pools, eleven miles. (No wood.) Thence to Soap creek, twelve miles I (no wood). Thence to Badger creek, five miles. Thence to Lee's ferry, tea miles. At Badger creek there is good grass (no wood), but there is no more grass ur feed of any kind to be had until we rnnrh THE NAVAJO SPRINGS, eight miles from the ferry, on the olherside of the river, so that ingoing tnrough the country one must calculate calcu-late to go from sixteen to eighteen miles and ferry the river in one day or their animals will go hungry it they stop over night at the ferry. From Lee's ferry to Navajo springs, eight miles. To Bitter springs, ton mileB. " Lime Rock tank, ton miles. " Divide-, fourteen miles. " Cottonwood springs, fifteen mile. " Mow-a-yab-be, seven miles, 1 " Moan-coppie, eight miles. From Mow-a-yab-be the road turns oil' to the Little Colorado, a distance of twenty-five miles to where the road strikes it. Thence up tho Little Colorado Colo-rado thirty miles to Black falls, twelve miles further to High falls, and about twenty to forty further to tho forks, where the best lands and waters are and where the first settlements will be made. Alter reaching Navajo,,,, jnm.-rr iit ttn-n ahviiye an aUonl.ou-n ul jm.oJ L;ia-3 every v, hi'ie, but waler m Ini-ip'enlly Ini-ip'enlly Keanv. .U .N a Vitiu .npriligs, llill.T hj , r, 1 and Umi Lime Stone tanks llii-i.i ih 110 wood, but alu-r this plenty. From thu laid. it is twenty-nine twenty-nine miles to t Villon wood npriiij.'S without water, then plenty of water from Little sprinvs all Iho wo to Moan-eoppie, From Muv-a-y.ili be to Little C dorado it is tweniy-lhv niilis without water, and in faet to! win-re the road rom-A down to Hie1 nverl over thirty miles, w.thnut wMnr. There in a Mpring eight iiiilet from Ahnwi yah bn mi his ro.-nl, but we hut nut tind it. From whole the ronl lint striken Tin: uiti.i: iMi.'.nain) to the San l''rani'itco limnnlai ns, wheie the great lurenU of pine tint hers are, is about lorly miles; Irom Black falls about twenty. live to thirty mile; from the forkn or junction ul the head waters of this ulre.uu to the forenls from lifteen to twenty miles. Along tlio river are cun-udcrablfi groves ol eottonwouU forc.its ol it nnd mi the, high lands are plenty ol eedaa and "oceans" ot i;r,is every- . where. From Moan-coppio to the Oiiha vni.u,;e in hum forty-five to I'niy mile.-; Irom thence Herons to the nei:!emonl- ftUuity thirty miles. I AT MOAN-tXtl fli:, Hie etntgi aiit.-t who went 011 !a--t fall with Mr. llrowu, have built a slone hon-e. lMl feet, with a high storey; havn damtiutl up the crei k m) 11.1 to nave the water in largo reservoirs, to econono.rt it, and have built about thn e inde of dileh or eamd, to bring , the w iter down to their land. Along and b-ltiw Ibis ditch there ar good I land-1 n ; U for a vtiry larg" nettln-in nettln-in ut. Tim Oriba or ,Moiiiileh (liopee) Indians have long cultivated a part of this land, raising wheat, eom, beans, potatoes, oquashes, oiton and other things, but of this I will sny more in a future letter. At Mow a-yabbe, eight miles h.-!ow, is a large atone bouse built hy John IK Lee, about three yenrj ago, id so considerable fencing and other improvements. THE S 'II. j U a nd dish-yellow, clay loam, and unl?idc of tiie arable land it is all eand, on which grow tho luxuriant grasi ti. Tins entire exjuntry, from the C ilorado to tho tula, was pros-pei pros-pei tnl by Jacob Uainhliu, now of Kanab, loiirteen years ago, with a view of settlement. lie reported favorably, us 1 have, but not until three years ago was a settlement attempted, and then it proved a splendid failure. Aditlcreut class of men are now going in, and eoon it will be a nourishing country. Sl-iCEE. |