Show some dixie history editor 11 washington COUNTS coun nj ai aks s I 1 have just received a colv of your valuable vil piper from a friend in arizona and think of old dixie and as I 1 u was as one of the old settlers I 1 thought I 1 must write urite you a few fein lines I 1 it hive i e a letter 2 in 11 my rny house u written rit to my father samuel adair in december 1856 by Pros president ident brig liam bani young calling him my father and others to dixie to raise cotton we left pay parson son in utah county ii in march 1857 and arrived on the virgin river just wt below the town toun of washington on the day of april 1837 1817 there were about eight oi 01 ten tell families of us I 1 could give you their mines names but they arc nearly all dead after in Q e got there on the tile ath of may the same year brother robert covngton gOn who vv our for many years cars came with about twenty more families and ve ine moved to the site where washington now Is 13 I 1 could gil give e ou oil their n lines also if it t is I 1 to build the first dim dain that waa aas ever built in the virgin river I 1 helped to drive the first herd berd of cattle to Darn Dain cron valley in 1817 18 7 and ve ie named it Dai neron villey valley after the late judge williim william dameron of Ai anzona izona who aias is with us at the tile time I 1 thought I 1 would tell houi you a little about alf atif i TM first I 1 lel hl lid of birther Biot lier petar collini brought brou glit the seed to washington in the fall fill of 1817 18 7 when the mormons cormons Mor mons were called home from california when johnsona lis 8 arnin wa vis coming lie ile planted the seed in the wa washington h field in the spring of 1858 that was nas the first I 1 ci ever or heard beard of in my life I 1 ii would be G glad to bo he with you at the homo bome coming but I 1 am not well enough to come corne you can show this letter to J E pace andrew andren james andrca and lot of others there who know mp me they can tell you who I 1 am S N ADAIR luna new mexico aug 21 |