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Show A Dixie Pioneer. Ilera'd Special Correspondence. Manti, Jan. 2!. Colonel A. P. Hardy of St. George has been paying a brief visit to Manti to see his son. E. V. Hardy, who is a resident of this place. Colonel Hardy is one of ine tlove lh".-,t white men who ever made a track on the Santa Clara river-, Washington county, lie went there in company with that celebrated old pioneer and good Samaritain. Jacob lhrnbliu and Thales Haskell, called by P.righan", Young. The three men made their camp surrounded by Indian'. . tiu) banks of Santa Clara ricr ill June, 1S54. Colonel Hardy was then '.II yenr.-t old and luov 08 years. He, w ilh the as' jsistnnce of Tufla-a.-Gabbii an Indian chief, and a band of Santa Clara Indians , I on the Fourth of duly, 18M, put in ill" j lirst dam to lake out the water from tlu j river Tor irrigation. It piovcd a greaS i blessing 10 i.he Indians and was !!'- means of fixing a permanent IVieiidshU' between them and the whiles, as wit1' I the water turned into the rich sell c( 'ho Santa I'lara bottom land, they wci enabled to gr,,w line crops of corn, tin'1' oils, beans, fruit, etc. ; 'l'he colonel has 1 i ed 0 u1 inuoiisly 01 I'ixie since l'-'..",, living a number 'f I years 011 lb,: Uio ii g.-n. bctw'-U Ihineau's Uetreat and iir.o ' "'' is -i i;: ha!,- and be.-n 'j , |
