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Show IIBAlt I.AKK STAKE. Quite I uiiil of Infarnistlon I nrnWIinl li; I IJrr .ImlrriT Jensun, Wot Dacret Xturn On MonJay, Hept. 7, 1S0I, I left8U Lake City t tram bound lor the Ilfar JdkoHtaVneif Zion anJ Mtiirnul on Uo Mill ol Uctolier following, after trutllnKCM milts, vlsltluir, twenty nlnawtllnnrnl of tlio Baltils In tho latcmt of Churcli history, and prucli-o prucli-o tulityslx tlmw. Of IIik rvlllf mints alsllnl twonty mvcii warn lu tlio llrar I.taa Btalif, and two, t.nmely Almy "tid 1iIoii, Wyoming, In lb8iimnillHlai!.AIinolwllliuUt ration I was wall ructlviil and tared frrby'tlie pmlillnt; uniccrs and lending lend-ing Mini of tlm illrfarant nUlamaiita, wholuarly all siomuj In unileia'aiid Iho Iruporlania of Improving tlio niflliod of Reaping ward records, aud j rvulttsl to act upon tho sugji'ttlons given In Hila rrxard. Anionic the ilacw visited wern Htar Valley and Hull lllvi-r Vallijr. Molt realtors of tho Nints undoubtedly un-doubtedly know somt'tblnit about Htur Valley, Wyoming, win re 11 to llniir-IsblDg llniir-IsblDg aalUamtnta of tlio HalnU constl-tu'o constl-tu'o an linpoitaut part of thu Hear liWu Blake or Uu; but there are per-list per-list maoy who hava nover heard imicli of Halt Itlvar Valley, Ivlug Ini. ruadlalely noilli of the former, jailly In Wyomlim and iartly In Iilaho. In order to reach this valley from Au. Iiri, or drover, Iho traveler ata Itiromli canyon folliwInK lli u.uioi)fHaltrler, which lure It both uveuanl wlJu In i.lacis, and tua to ba fnrird twice. Formerly tho road croisaJtlia mountain. Kuiewlutr from lull iAU)Oli,n broad and attractive valley val-ley irreeta the Kali or the traveler, and ou tho till! i nut slnama which ill Into Halt river from tho snow-cat, lad in lltttnlui on the Mt, a liuuilnr cf run-hea and farms, n ct nlly o mil, tommies tumlrrHUtT that lie la still oil the burden of llvlllzttloll. Tllee scattered settlers constitute thoiiewly ornanlM Oloncoo nl, over which John V. Ttionwr pruldt-a tn lltln), with Hum J. i:ninicrt and Hidney Allen Al-len ai touusilors. The numerical trenxlli ol tin anl, which wai flrl organized Jui.o 17, 1VJI, la 23 faoilllts, orl7Uoul. Tliaiiiilro or the ward, or tlm point where the mtrtln liuum landa, In seUlou t.1, towuihlp 31 north of raiiKellO wist, la on Uietast aide ol Halt rtver, alout iklilr.ni milts north-wtsl north-wtsl of Alton, In Htar Valiry. Freedom Is tlm other settlement In Halt ltlter Valley. The lowusttc ol that name linn tliafalate llnenl WorulK and Idaho, and miters at mile at o. IBs. It la surveyed Into blocks ul tin actea each, Willi stieels six rode wide, which trosa inch other nt rlttht angle. 1-arh block contains lour Iota. The east hall ol the town la In Wyoming Wyo-ming aud the nut hnir 111 Idaho, hut only lew famllhe reside on the town-site, town-site, as the majority tl the .(tilers still live win re they llrst located lu a scattered scat-tered condition ou thtlr rauchca and farina, which on the west aide of Halt Jtlvenxtend up and down for a dlv tauteof about tight mllis. '1 here are also a liuiuUr of eetllira on the east aide. Those oil the west side Irrigate their lamia jrlmlpally Iroiu Tin Cup en ck and Jail. Knife crreit,tos!reams which tut lulu Halt ltlttr Irum the inouutalu rauiru on the west. The luwnslteot I'rirdomlt about twenty. live uilliauorlhwexlof Alton, lu Htar Valley, Ui he lull" soulhiatt ol the taint where Halt river tmptlcs Into Hnakorlvtr, andsUty-llvomlUaby a trail or rouh mouutiu ma 1 norltu att ul Hoda Hprlnca. The Freedom ward, which consists ol nl out thirty lainllka, ur I Ml souls, eint ran the more central t ol Halt lllMir Valliy.uud rontalua thoiiKaiidNUon thousanusoli;oodlleel and Inrtllu land, with spltndld water Incllltlis and other natural advauUwca: tut It will rupillu ) eara f I atleut loll and lalior towrest the country Irom Its iirtsont wild aud desolate htate, and turn It Into well inltlvuttd llelds. 1 am, however, of tho opinion that this valley pissvsses ua many attractlona akd nit'iral fadlltltHfur Ihelormatlon bl in w settlements as au)' lu the west. ernrlI W online. The Halt Itlur Valley, fiirmerly rallel IheloWerHalt lllter Valley, to distinguish. It from Iho upirr Kalt ltler Valley, not called Htar Valley, ) about tw t-nly miles long from south-tasttonorthwist, south-tasttonorthwist, nachlur from the low mountain ildt" wlikh sepnratm It from Htar Vallvy, on the smith, to the lolnt whtruHalt Itiver iiupllti Into llinHualiu on the north. Its width arleaall the way from two to elj-ht miles, the widest sut bilug nonr the ctntrr, where rreedom la sdualed, on tho wtst side ol the river. The mountains moun-tains on thu east and imrtuenituro jolty and their suiutiilla and shady eldia are cuvin-d with snowai;riat urtlonorthvyiar,whhh tuikta water plentiful, nnd the nioiiiitalu rtfinni) putting Into Halt river Irom both sldia are iiutnerotls and some of them quite lirge; thu wah r Is also iroud nnd clear ami tnu i tlmatn not too warm or sultrv. Jttuce I do not htsltate to rtcom-mend rtcom-mend tills valley to the kind n'.tentlon nf I.ttttr-day Halula who lire steklng lor homea and nre not nlrald tn brave the daugtrs of tho mountain wlldannd plonmr lifts t;en-trull). t;en-trull). In fact, this valley Is cainbte of giving the sitlltrs who chuose to locate within Its bonluia nearly all the experience that the Utah Vlouitrs pissed through ovir forty yiari njo. Here, Indeed, l still au nniortunlly to kill niuks ami build brldgti, nnd to achieve the glory mid lame connetted with belrg the lint the lorn irs. There Is no Uoult but what Halt Jller Valliy In Homo luluro dny will teem with Ihimtuniti of lamllKa nnd be dotted with towns and vlllai;is throughout Its entire IciiBlh.Aml wlun the I.itiI shnllliaeUnierel the tie-nu tie-nu nla In re tu the txh-nt that lie hu In many othtr I iirts ol the gnat Inter-mountain Inter-mountain relim(whtre the Latter-Jay Hilnla In former )tar have com-menced com-menced their tuttltnuubi under the iiiostillsooiiruglng clriumslaiices) this txU'nslvenlley of the north will undoubtedly un-doubtedly contain n prospirous htake of Zlon fully nrgnulreil, and thu soil 1 roil mn all that l mciieuiry tosuttaln Jlleaud glveiomfort toll Inhabitants. Hut now It Is cold nnd dreury, ispecl-nlly ispecl-nlly In the wlnti r sensou, and ninny of the lieoplo en far hate had to leave their homea for scuml months lu the year and go tlstwhtie to earn hrtnd for their ruullletf, tliulr nw n crops having hav-ing been dtstrn) id by Ihetrtsts. 'I he llrst si till r In Halt Itiver Valley were Wm. llruii (then ofHU I'harlis, Hear Lake County, Idaho), John H. Itolphand lour sons, ami John Hill and Moroni Hunt, with their families, ihoarrlved in tlm rri seutsllo itl reo. dom lu May, IHO. I'luy eut to work Ininictltnlely nud pit nnfourlogtabhu I onthesnutli side ol Tin Cup Crtik, lima named Iromlhn slmplo f ict that it company of mining prosfiettors haj lost a tin cup while osmplnir on the stream aome time previous, this first location waa In Idaho about n mile northwest of tho preeent towmlto ol l-'reedom, and these llrst setllera pame In by wny of .Montpellcr over the mountains tu Htar Valley, and had tu make tho first road down Crow Crei k fur a instance of alout llffiiii miles, For soveral jenr the four fatnlllea namul lived In the valky alone, nuking nuk-ing their livlug by ranihlng, and no nttempta wcmi made at aiming until about ItM, when other setlhra txgantocomeln and the llrst grain wai raised. Hlncethon tin re has bei n n slow hut grailuil Increase lu tho population, until (here are nt pneht about sixty lainllha or letwitu three and four hundred (lenplu ro-bllng lu Hie valley, who. lu June, 1M)I, were nrgnlzed Intutwo wirds oftheltinr Inke Htake ufZlon, namely the Freedom Free-dom ward ullh A.l). Clark ns lllihi'is nnd the Mloncon wanJ, previously described. A.MJlilw JkNao.x. Htn lltvni Vai.i.i.v, Wjo., Uttemlr, IS'jl. |