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Show Tlie.loiirnei I'liulliuieil. torres pefl4saca of tlie Daasatu Navra . After pasting Fredoiila, Arizona, eight lullea south of Kauah, PIW Hprlngs, twenty rnlles northwest, waa reached. An enjoyablo evening waa trcnt with Jlrolhr Dsnlel Hegmlller. We passed ou next day about thirty miles, lo Canaan herd ranch, where a)00 calves have been brandtd this )tar(l601). Thure aro about 0,ono heaj of stock running un this raucb, affording at Itasl 4XM beeves. Canaan liilluated forty tnllea from HLUtorge, twenty-three from Virgin Cily, fllleeu from llockvlllson the Virgin lllvcr, and all of Iheau places are liuudrmla of feet below, In altogether another climate. It Is a vlntago centre. Canaan has a climate ltwceu the northern and tha hot Dixie. It la down Hurricane Hilt, two mllea long, and In rune I laces dangerously steep. Hurroundlng the Canaan ranch, house!, barns, etc., are high billies, terming catlle-sha-wd crags, and a grand variety of peaks of variegated colors. From theso mountains, which aro nearly perpendicular, gurgling tprlngtofiure water, which aio Invaluable Inval-uable to 111" ranch, burst forth. What makes tha red, white and blue mouu-talna mouu-talna all the more picturesque, la that they nearly surround tha rancli build. In,j and Hock )ard, leaving only an opanlug to the south-west. Tha ranch la ureter (he supervision of A. F. McDooalJ, while the houae and home Is under the care nf Ilro. J. W. Polled! and family. From Fredonla lo HI. tleoritt, eljhty-flve miles, only these two ranches, I'll Hprlngs and Canaan, break the monotony to the strangtr who chances lo past over the heavy sandy roads. He sees hern nnd there a hunch of stock, h it after all he has before him n romanllo country. We arrived In HI. (Icorgo Just In time, to take part In the Hun lay Hchool CtinfiTcnie of HLUeorge Httke, held 111 Ibo Tabernacle. It was, Indeed, a grand sight to gaze upon. The Conference, Confer-ence, which waa largely attended, closed on Monday afterno in, thu 1 Itli Inst. Lmv'Aitti HrKvi'-isoN. |
