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Show TOE JOURNEY COSTIXDED. Hems Founded Upon a FItastnt Excursion In Idaho. I Franklin, Oneida Co., Idaho,' April SO, 1 S90. Correspondence of theDESERfirKcws. By tho assistance assist-ance of friends at Houtz's Ranch, who furnished Elder Andrew Kimball Kim-ball with another span tf horses, In place of tho animal that died the night previous, we were enabled to continue our journey on Uio'mbrn-ing Uio'mbrn-ing of April 5th. Wo traveled seven miles to the little town of Snow-vllle, Snow-vllle, situated on Deep Creek, in the east side of the Curlew Valleyi where, at tho request of Bishop Arnold Goodllffe, we held a meeting meet-ing with the Saints in the evening. We had a good time. Eider Kimball Kim-ball related come of his experiences among the Lamauites in the Indian In-dian Territory, and I gave a short account of my late visit to some ot Uie waste pLccs of Zlon. Snow ville Ward, belonging to the Box Elder Stake of Zlon, embraces all the Saints living in Curlew Valley, Val-ley, including the town of Snow-ville, Snow-ville, half a dozen families at n little lit-tle tcttlcment called St. Thomas, situated on springs seven miles northeast of Snowvtlle (In Idaho), two families at Houtz's Ranch, near the sink at Deep Cretk, one family at Dille's Ranch, seven miles east, and two families at the foot of the Black Pine Mountains, seventeen miles northwest of Snow ville. Curlew Valley extends from the Great Salt Lake on the south to the Sublette Mouutains on the north, a distance of about forty-two miles, and from the Clear Creek and Black Piue Mountains on the west to the Hansel Mountains on the east, about twenty-six miles. Tho greater ir-tlon ir-tlon of it is in Utah, while the northern end extends Into Idaho. It Is a poorly watered valley, tho only creek of any Importance within its borders being Deep Creek, on which Sncwville is situated, and a few springs at various points. The town of Suowvilla is in Box Elder Count', Utah, about sixty miles northnest of Brigham City, by way of Corrinne, Point Lookout and Blue Springs, twenty-eight miles northeast of Kelton, the nearest near-est railway station on the Central Pacific Railway,and two miles suuth of the Territorial boundary line. A rock school house, where the mcct-Idcs mcct-Idcs are aLo held, is the onlr nubile building in the town. The private dwellings are all log houses of the primitive kind, but there are a number num-ber of good Hal tits living in these humble habitations who deserve great credit for the way they have stuck to their rots in the midst of many discouraging circumstances: circum-stances: for ever since 1S76, when the place was first settled by our people, there has been a continued warfare with the ranchmen, ranch-men, who from the very firstobjected to the location of tho settlement, claiming the range and creek for their own special benefit, and who since have employed overy means and strategy to break It up. Besides tills, the settlement has suffered much from the ravages of grass hoppers and rabbits. Tho latter were at one time so numerous that it became a common saying among travelers that In pasMiig through Curlew Valley it was necessary to lend a man ahead of the teams with a whip to clear the road of rabbits before the wagons could pass. But Snowvlllo has now brighter prospects. BUhop Arnold, with the true characteristics of a hard v and fearless pioneer, assisted by a number num-ber of his faithful brethren, has taken a determined stand and by the blessings of the Almighty will weather every storm and overcome every difficulty, until their little town shall cumparo favorably with any settlement of the Saints in northern Utah. On the morning of tho 26th Elder Kimball and myself continued our Journey. By way of Ansel Springs (where Dille's ranch Is ibiaicd), Bene Springs (where the water is bad), Blind Springs (where Joseph Mormon Harris, a nephew of Martin Harris, the witnas, has a ranch, and Point Lookout, we traveled 55 miles In a southeasterly direction to Bear River City, where wo arrived lato In Uie evening and were kindly entertained en-tertained by Bishop Carl Jensen. Tho next morning (Sunday, April 27th) we traveled four miles to Honeyvillc, when I parted with Elder Kimball, he going to Brig ham City and I boarding the train and starting off for Franklin, Onriil.i County, Idaho, where I attended the Stake Conference on that and the following day. A sties Francis M. Lymauand Marrinec W.Merrill, were Uie principal speakers and their instructions were nil o' a practical nature. Tho Saints were advised to keep out of debt, to be bonis t in all their business transactions and live within their means. The Oneida Stake embraces all the Saints residing in tho eastern part of Oneida County and southern districts of Bingham County, Idaho. It consists of fourteen organized wards and one branch (Pocatcllo), with the following membership: Xo. Sonli. "o. rtmilie, ClieitcrSeM 363 el curios stz a FnnUia .. Hi 117 Filrrinr. a: 33 Gtrdca Creek......... 130 20 UtnhVatler. tJT M Mink Creek Ui eg Mormon.. IK 3D Mound Valley. TT. I: Olford - n ft rwMteiio in 2 rralon 571 no Itirerdate HI 1 Weston MI 106 WhitneT 211 a: Total la Suke Its Ha The Stako is presided over by Geo. C. Parkinson, a young man 32 years old, who resides at Franklin. His counselors are Solomon II. Hale, a son of Jonathan H. Hale (of Xauvoo fame) and a man of much experience, who resides In Slor mon Ward, Gentile Valley, and Matthias F. Cowley formerly of Salt Lake City, who resides In Preston. Pres-ton. President Parkinson Informed Inform-ed me Uiat the organization of four or five new wards in the Stake was contemplated in the near future. The Oneida Stako was first organized organ-ized June I, I6S4, outof the northern north-ern wards of Uie Cache and Box Elder Stakes, and about two years ago it was divided into two, the western portion, Including tho Mal-ad Mal-ad Valley settlements, lielng set off Into a separate organization called the Malad Stake of Zion. Andrew Jknson. |