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Show mi 1 hUl.TIiritN UTAH. H Tlie '-rltlfmreti of Ihs "alnlt on llie H lilt llrgtn and III Irlbu- H Uriel. H J'M(.r lleurtt Aeuit H On the 17th of Apiltliat, I Unbind H my hlilorlcal lalwra lu Ht. Ucorgi, M Utah, and I rocecdod to vlalt all the Ud settlements of llio Hilnta Hur.. H ted on tho llio Vlrgen aud IU trlbu. H tirlisubovuHt. (Iconic. H , At Washington, tootled about lire H miles nortluoit of HI. Ueorge, on Lfl tho north ildo of tho llio Virion, 1 J (pent the Sabbath very pleasantly ,nd H lrarucd from Hit old residents that (he H 1 lace was lint foulidod la 1817, aa tho M tint agricultural sitllcment ot tho H Halnta lu Utah Dllc, Hants. Clara, hating up to that time, and for tamo H tlnia afterwards, born established in H only nu Indian inlielon. At one lime H Washington contained wnulallou of H more than UOUaouli, while tho pc-ient H totol mtuibrihli of the ward only H couttiU otiM, oruOfamllltr. Thli drcrtaie lu iopulatlon due to a Hfl numtwr of caunt, tut the i rlu H rltal one la the wathlui; away H ot tho dami and Ultchra wlilrh the H ictllahaooonilruclvd)i.irBnrrytar H lor Irrigation purixxru. InoltiotUtr. H oua llio Vinton hat Uatn llifm all K nwayand for the lint tbite jaara the H I.IiC bai had no water, ate tho mj H inuty autply ttialntd from the iiluBionlwblch Hie town Ullutfil 1 nottuntclent to IrrlKatehair Hut city BH lob), llutuow theie nre lair iroitola H ahead, aa the Ht. Ucore und Wa4hltig. H tou dam aud taunt ou theaouth ilue H ottho titer me m-erlw: iouikllon. H Tblt dam, on which the futuie ro. HH Itrlty of both Waihlnxton and Ht. H (ioorfio depend, coubthta of a natural B ltdseof aolld rock wtitcti cruttea tho m rlter about lite mllta aboto WiiUIou- H ton. Ily blaatliiK k luuntl through n H mountalu lAlutlhu coadructoiauf the H raual obtained a tafi nud tolld ilaro H torn luad Kate, aud Ihen committee H their ten-mile loon canal, wlilih, when WM It reacheatboold Waihlnton rleld 4) lUH tnltta below, btlni: tho wnter Wlitl H lilKher than the rid ditch, riieiaual K la lour feit dtip and leu fiet wide in H tho bottom, aud la out III the lido of H the mountain) art of the way through aoll I rock", thero are nlao llvi. tuniiiK, B the lontetl of which mraauna I I'J fitt H luloukth. WantoRaliaate conhlrucUil H at jioper Intirtoli, t mraniot whlih M theaaud manna which will naturally H accumulate lu the bottom of the canal can bo waihod out whunotrr 11 be 1 comes neciH.r), and tliua.uYou iy H Kreat amonnt ol manual labor, iuih aa H hnilttu beatowod upon other lllUhea aH It. i.rrfi tn ii-t n ltii.nl rlean. K After tliltlnii the dam, 1 cobtluued H my Jottrny Ma HarrUburirto l.ifOi, H -N Where 1 held a mretlug lu the etenlun H of the mill ot April. H9 llarrl.buric U ulmokt n town of tho B pail, all the Inhabllantt excrt lull u H doien famlllea batlui; moted away, H but moit of tittle havu loiatu t at H lieedi, two rud u ltalf mllta lo the H northeait, i i haa a moit iliaiatit 1 altuatlou and ti tio now a j ronfioious M place In it lluanc.nl joint of tiew . 1 bu H jeotilu there ate irhaa better oil WfU aa it whole than any or their Dlile BSaT. lielqllbola, which It owlutf, uo doubt, Sii to Iho clor.e proiimlty l thulr town Km to Iho iuIuIiik camp of Hlltor iteef, Kfj altuatod over a ildj;e northuard about Pt-iafl one and a half mtlet ul-tant. Hut BtfeW Hllter Kiel, like mtat raining tania 1W iuUlah, haialpateully lieu Ita le.l HI Ujr, tlielnllli Imioall toped woik, Xmjt cacei t otto or two, which iiiako an 1111 oceatlouil ahott ruti, wheneter a Kfffl aufllcleut quantity of ore li ol laluod jjRfl for thin luriioio by tho few mliitra f f aud proprietor who llllllUkerN around ralff , lliuLanip.rhenumrruuibuiiuet'ihou.ia laKaf andtlnelllntta which once cmtltuted iIo$ apartof thla iro-icrou mlnltiK town & a hrenowheluitnulitlawe),irlucl!ly to LetlU whelotho0 lehreuiluicthe An material Id the conMructlou of bariiii, Vjjnl itablrf, fencte, lc. The 1 rmla ward, BVaj embracluir Uarrl-huri, tiutnbera two jl hundred ant thirl) -eight n.uli, or ePH thirty famllieN of Hainti ni diil orer aFH by lllihon llrlnhatu V. MiMulllu. B trom l,eeda I iroiiedit to the N furuoua roqutrtllle, ailuntod ou Afh Kl C'retk, tweut-tbree nilleM ia.t of Ht. Bl Ueoueand thllt)nlne uillei auutb- D Wirt of Cedar illy, loqurltllle waa PL II tit irttltd 111 1SJ1, and liu at riaeut VB, a "Mormon" jopiilatloti of two huti- HKSv Urid and eh;hl ett u louli or tlltj Kff loten lumllki. Here, ai well ai In HI. Hgfl (leorire, 1 mile llio a(iialntRiiee ol Ml tjultea mtiubir of old ,lmlL" H telerana lu llio Lhunh, who have L lioruo the t tirdeu ef llie "kingdom" H until their hair are whltu aa mow H aod tholr laeea furrowed wllh JSH wrlnklta of iato und aj-e, llrothir I illlaiu A. Uilniiliurat l Iho Ill-hop MJ of t til inlerriliiiK laie whkll haa an Wfl air of tomfort about It that attract tbo , atlentlouot moil vliltorr, nllbouih It KMI I hemmed In hy n hlatk rllge or j mountain on the mt, and u dieary H landydeiiertonthowiit. It I trul) H an oail In thodeierl, Itaullluland H fertile, while iho urrouudln coun-f coun-f Itj liuiilnolnliil and drear) aa mil- m thing lotilblycau he, H AMmtw Ji'ShuN. H Bali IiAM.dtTi, July i, lbl).'. |
