Show MOCCASIN RANCH RAN CH ANDREW Visit to hi I of t Utah Llah anil a lilt Northern 8 Pl 11 I Correspondence M ln Hunch Mohave Co Art Arl zona lice Uee tho tit th purpose J of amok i g an un extended tour of oC the lunah jt t George leor e Parowan Beaver Bellver stud and stakes takes of ut Zion In the In leest of ot Church history I 1 left Salt Snit Lake Lako CILy on the IMn ultimo After Aften spending n II SU ll In iii rind and Stirling Kayette In ette and I continued the lourney by train to Marysvale there Is Isu IsIt u It small branch or ut the Church Chur h belong h ing to III the tho SIler Setler strike presided over oer by h Blitek Samuel L tage the tho branch clerk lI rk hired a ii carriage and Font cent me mae on un to 10 Junction 20 miles mlle time the county count seat scat of Pluto county I 1 found this part of ot the time country countr covered with fino and lee Ice n as time the result of ot a II recent snoWstorm hut but was much surprised at lit the Improvements made marlo in the tho village e or ot Junction my lay last visit Isil In 1892 1802 rime Tho hue lino house houlle and the magnificent cent recently erected here hero would do ito honor to almost any ilia county In Utah John Is III of ot the Junction ward which was organ Izel a few fl warl ago ugo when the old ol urd of ot that name was divided Into two and the time new village of Kingston which Is III f pleasantly situated nt lit the mouth of time the canyon through which the Ihl chat cast branch of Ot SevIer river riven emerges Into hun tie the lower valley was Willi organized as its asa a n new lIew ward I found many Improve m also made in that historical nt which figured BO 8 si prominently In the Hawk war In III 1565 and itutti following I was shown hown tho the place pineo where woman hid from train tIme tilt Indians In lan by hy getting I Into Inlo n It spring and standing In water itter to her I el for tor os six In the colt cold month of lr November she Rho saved her hr life though she Kho never fully recovered from mimi the effects of the terrible ordeal On the tho same Mme occasion four our of our brethren were ere killed by the Indians In lum Inthe time the Immediate vicinity of Circleville James I Peterson Is 18 the tha lie present filch op of ot ward After attending Ito tho quarterly con ference nt at thu place placa with liders 1 Hy Ily Hyrum 11 rum rUin M Smith und Hulon S Wells I traveled with James U n Hey Heywood He wood mooil of ot about 30 miles to when we arrived In the tIme of n a blinding snow now a ter tor rifle blizzard the like ilke of ot which lute has not been witnessed for or many years cars even onn in inthis this bile upper country IH is an town lown but hut lacks incite most of or the modern Improve Improvements ments with which nearly all other im JIll important In Utah are or blessed It has neither telegraph telephone nor non waterworks and vet t ninny many of Its 1111 In itt habitants are uro wealthy nud progressive Continuing the tIme tourney lourney from Pan lamm on out time the and InrI traveling about IS 18 with Elder l hlll Daniel II B Clark we WI reached the tho pew town of or Hutch which I IIII III Is situated about it 1 mile below them the I Junction of Mammoth and creeks these two streams forming the time Sevier river Ih I proper The town of ot Hatch I Is 13 only anI two IWo years yedra old but the people nr already housed anti feel teel hopeful of ot their future prosperity i Formerly the lie people lived scattered about on ott their though one olle previous attempt hud hal been he n made maete to n II town lown a 11 mile above where the had ha built n Cl reservoir nt at he ie c of tho tim two mentioned hut but after come hind bod been heen spent on time tho reservoir tIme the ilam damit broke and und tho flood caused thereby nearly washed away the time en town lon The Tito present u In irm built hullt on Oct higher lands sonic some distance from rota tho tite river O OIn In tue morning of ot the Thanks Thanksgiving giving day tIn Lynn of ot Hatch took tool us its to time tha top tOIl of the tho moun mOlin mountain tain the rim of ot tho thin basin where time the altitude Is III MOO feet where time the ground was covered with nearly two feet of ot snow On the time summit 12 1 from rein Hatch Ua Ich we ve were met bya h by n a sleight sleigh sent lent out by Bishop Graham D U Mac Macdonald Macdonald donald of tir Graham to meet us and the th ride was sas then continued down tile the steep deep incline Into Long ong valley alley to Graham seven miles mile from tho the We nr nt It Glendale In time the evening at Rt the house of or Bishop Hoyal J S Cutler Culler Jr Sr seven miles niIle further down the tho valley Of the Ihl three thrle settlements In Long Ion val valley nl Icy ley Glendale Is U keeping up tip with the times has witnessed some ome Improvements of ot late lale eans and built a n beautiful meetinghouse a n socIal nodal huh hall halland antI and a Mount Carmel Carniel which was nearly depopulated about years ears ago ngo has hM received n a new population 1011 II lItlo II and tint Is I nealry up to Us Its for Cor former Cormer formen mer men standard Hans Hanl C Is time tho present Bishop of ot Mount Carmel aunt and Henry W Vm Esplin still presides In Or 01 Our Journey to time the mountains and time tho canyons Vr I r the roughest roads rond Imaginable brought us liS to n a warmer country Instead of at atthe the time carpet of 01 snow which covered tho the upper volleys valleys valle the people of at hud hul the lie privilege of ot wending their way wn to conference through the tue mud and slush Mush ns as tho the snow which fell tell during tIme the re no recent recent cent storm had hati nearly all aIl melted In Inthe time the hospitable home of ot President l d dwin win D 1 Woolley wo WI learned the thO ot or till his great real of ot spanning time the Colorado river with whIm a cable cubic and tailing passengers In Inn Ina n a cage This Timis enterprise will be pushed through In the tue spring liNing We left leCt this morning for tor Ire lre 1 re which Is ls situated In Coconino county Ariz Aria seven even miles ot t t From there BIshop Asa W Judd late president predl of the Iho Netherlands mission ml took tool UH mis through the tho th hills and valleys olles to Moccasin Springs IS 18 miles from rum whore here wo we are aro now upending an nn evening comfortably In iii hospitable ho homo home of ot Ilder l lder Charles C CHeaton Heaton the thc president of or the tho branch here consisting of at tour four our families Springs IH li a 1 cozy coy little cot cor corner ncr ner or covo with mountains on three sides elites and the desert on the time other Three months ngo ogo the tho place obtained local telephone connection and tonight we weare weare are chatting pleasantly with our friends In itt and St George 65 miles nilles distant and arranging our future Itin Itinerary To 10 be bc able to 10 do this at It timis Iso tao Isolated spot pot on the Is certainly In Interesting Interesting creating JENSON |