| Show uinta not what was represented the exploring and surveying party that started for uinta valley on the ad and also the road makers who follow followed dalte dalle after r t them hem on the oth dinst have return returned edwith with a veraun very unfavorable report in relation to that part of the 1 territory the fertile vales extensive meadows and wide pasture ranges so BO often reported to exist in that region were not to be 1 found and the country according to the I 1 statements of those sent thither to select a I 1 location for a settlement is entirely unsuitable for farming purposes and the amount of land iland at all suitable for cultivation ex extremely remely limited the tle explorers having on their arrival there found things so very different from what had hal been anticipated after searching up and i down the streams flowing eastward from I 1 I 1 I 1 the wasatch range 0 to the colorado without 1 finvid finding a an oasis sent back two of their num I 1 ber her with a report of what discoveries they had made up to that time which report was waa read from the stand at the bowery on en sunday week the balance of the party continued their explorations several days longer but without discovering the land of the walnut and the vine after becoming F thoroughly 0 bly satisfied that all that section of country lying between the wasatch mountains ani ana the eastern boondry of the territory and south of green river county was one vast contiguity of wastel waster I I 1 and measurably valueless excepting for or nomadic purposes hunting huntin gro grounds ands for indians and to hold the wrid arld together the hoie whole hole party warty I 1 ty returned I 1 home by different routes some arriving on wednesday on thursday I 1 last unanimously reporting that there here is no such country there as had been described by hunters trappers and other othier wanderers wander warder ers who 1 w have ajr unreservedly e edly asserted that it was a beautiful valley and more to be desired than any they had seen in in the greit basin no not except in ing inz that of great salt sali lake why men who have lived for years in this country have roamed over its mountain mounta inand sand I 1 sterile plains and have witnessed the experiments I 1 that hae been made in tillin tilling the soil where any have rot rov by observation learned what por ions of the desolate deso lote wastes can and cannot be culk cuik is hated ate we are tirla tilia unable tillable ble bie to say but such is the tw case as had be been en de more than once the men who were sent out in this instance to vie vlen view 0 uinta and select a location for a settlement it if one be found were persons of experience in such matters and in j 4 their report the most I 1 implicit in elicit confidence 0 is is paie paje ed e 4 d consequently al ati arrangements for es a ishin settlement there havi have ceased |
