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Show I IN ISM -IDA. I IHir JtiulrriT JmionN Atltcntnrct on I the Head From Oftrlon to m, (Jfnrif. m or Detent Aelvr I f,eaTlu0tto.i, I Incoln County, .rJ,on tie S1rJ Intt.to irturu ti Bt OoorRf, w trmeltU Dtp mlt ttirougb liTy sand, vrhm fjutiU outwit at tl i lower rod of loufttttcp and rocky ilugway wlilcli Itad.up to tho lop ofthe bench or ni,tlitt txttnjs from tills point many mllca i-Mlward I"""" H lisatcr Dima Mountains In Utah Tho oilier way It tnJi from tli. Clor Mountain on tlio north to tho Wo .Irglnontbaaouth, andlt badly cut up by watlies and gulcUii. Tli lop of the mtiali tcry rocVy andcotsrcd with drictt tcijolatloii, lliclujlrifc fln silmena of the k cactus, which In tomaluitimccsgrosrlii largo clutter. Ono of Ihno which roiawroil u about twenty feel Inclrcurafe roi cr.tsro and a half feet hli(h and consisted of no It" than fifty aottiu keit haed cactuses, each of which wai about tlio ilieof tnohubof lh whwilof aconi. Bmon farm ason Out of llio bruit rcn (iiMerted that It would I a lino icclmeuloMnd to tho World'a lair atCnlcaco So It would, and ctuld tho Blalo of -Wada bo In lure to bear the eipenio of t'llppln,- It thither, It would, rtiat, anlit materially toward ralilnn: tlio "fame" of tho Bute, an to tho "iliellcncea uf Ha natural I rodu(.tloni " Itaurely woul I beocurloilly and an otject of ureal Interest In any world'a fair, It ought, however, to bo libeled hauile oir," for It ttmiU Wan exceedingly tlckty ob Ject to handle After traveling about ten mllraoter the incta we fotlud ourtelree on tJe eJco uf tliat part f th hum vrlili.li otcriuolt the tlio Irten, and on tho loi of inn famous Hull koonri 1 1 Iraf ilcrsln thli part 01 the country at lllz Mrgeiilllll" Thiroli another roadwhlch leade down a wash to tho vislsntl which more tluill teamster I rifer, although It la loreml inllei fur llier, tutat uonu of our little ny weie Inclined to show tho white f-otl cr, woof touriolmTetl tie dan ttraoftlie Iliac lrgin,"the moat liatuied i f wl Ich la a nearly terpen illrular ltdge ol roiuj eztrndloi; across II e road, euowluL, a bol 1 front nearly thieefeithlicli In drltlng orer thli , rod. with ' all brakra" on and two men standing mi the hind wheel, one ol tl v horses hcsltatid about KOlug dowu u steep a late, and tlually concluded he would ratlin not Consequent.), I e I laced hlmielf n hi hind lege, I and with all the ttrrogth ho roull mutter tn hla rather stooping coudl Hull usl eil I ack uutll hla leet fli'J from under him, causing him to keel over t at awards, and the next jiostllon ho found himself lnv.at lyluxlnthu ciagofthe rock on 1 la tack kkklng tlealrwllh all four Jly lousei Inglhe tug and all the atri aud luckles I which futened them to the wagou and hla mite, we succeeded 111 gbtllng him on lilt feet aiialii, ant by hllrhlnglo I the end uf thu tongue we i,ot down without further acildent, but all ex tTpt the driver now thought 1 tudeucu 1 the lieal ilt of valor, aud conae tut ntly walked down the other art of I the hill Lonllnulngthejourney uptherlver, I whkh we crossed leven tltur, wo ar ) rived at liunkervllle 111 the dusk of the evrnlng, Just na the Llouda OIned Ibrlrlalleilta on I tie villager their umbrella Hut notwithstanding tl it ttorni tl o goo I lo of liunkervllle i turned out to listen to a diatomic on S the dlllue lillsslou of the lrojlut i Joseph Hmllli The next tla), In rompau) with 1 realdent 1 rnatlta It H low, I created the Itlo Mrgeu thlrlean thma lu travtllii: n dlilai ce if Illutn mllea to lltaver Dam, wheru we lild an lutortttlug mettlug lu tin evenlug II o following day in trav tied thirty nillis to 1 rice, where an other nieetil SHll hlld 1 rice ward conalate of two mnll 1 atnlttr, namely 1 rltt tlluatid oil the aoutheut t auk of thu ltlo Ireu, live rntlra aouthwert of tot Uiorge, aud liloomlngtou, llog ou the unealle aide of the river, tho chaunel of which at thta point la elout two hun died yard wldt. I rice lie n abort tllVtance below the point where Ider Joseph Horn and I la company of cot ton grouera located In 1S5S, lut tie prueiit haiukt only datea back to 1B74 and la at I rcient occulled by elbt famlllci itloomlngtoii ha five faiul Ilea, Kid tie whole ward haaatnim lerehtp of alxly four oul or thlr teen famlllia JSri 111 11 hawcott la tl o Illthcpoftl ewurd HamueUlllea of Idormon itattallon fame, la the ward rleik, andduarreaajclal moutlon for hladllibencoln kerpug hit bookaln pood order, and for rtcordlng Impor tant eventa a they have trnuej Ircd lu the ward from time to time Avnutw JlsaoN llllC, Wathlngton Co , Utah, JIaich .(I, lb92 |
