Show ir 9 TX Ss 10 PRO PROGRESS oress CRESS OF PlIES PRESIDENT IDENT YOUNG AND COMPANY ST GEORGE washington COUNTY i sunday sep 14 1862 I 1 EDITOR deseret NEWS dear sir bravin having reached a point from which winch I 1 can mail a letter without fearing its detention for a week in a place I 1 improve the opportunity by writing to you another epistle it may not be out cut of place here to sy s y that the cause of my rny last communication being bein so abruptly broken oft off was that ibe the messenger er who 1 1 was going to carry it to cedar city came C a me for it in a hurry harry and hence I 1 was obliged to wind up ins in taher lawer i I 1 we jve have not buffered suffered any mental tortures in our travels from apprehensions of nocturnal I 1 visits visit from the wily red man raan as is often the case upon such journeys this however may le be attributed by some to the facer there being beiner n our coin corn company pany such a liberal sprinkling of gens cols al jors and captains 1 I believe a first lieutenancy is the lowest military title any one will acknowledge holding anil anti they are men too who unlike many many of their contemporaries have not been dubbed col by virtue of having killed a rattles rattlesnake no sir their titles have been leg u ai conferred I 1 1 I 1 boquer in the kahute language signifies mocie block and antl was the i ame lame oe of an industrious ind an chief who was found here when our tur first explorers traveled ti a meled through this country at that time he bad a farm of five acre acres on wh ch hr be raised wheat corn pumpkins and melons lie he was somewhat pome what aristocratic when compared with his brethren living in a respectable B pec spec table tabie sort of or shanty bovere I 1 over with iab the broad leafed cane which grows in great I 1 abundance in the bottoms adjacent to the river from frem him this place derived its name nande the first sight of this thriving village gives the impression said to be experienced by iba ibe trav traveler travelis elir who suddenly comes to an oasis in an arabian de desert s ert J we ie held field a public bibic meeting at 7 pm at which president young pre preached ac h ed to the people upon the t and spiritual salvation afi of the hon lion st in heart called attention to the condition of he iha states stales and the world at large and the imperative n cess 1 ity ot of our i lo 10 becoming morning independent of all foreign markets I 1 ere re the time comes that we shai be shut out I 1 froin from the commodities of the world lie he I 1 warbled to see bee the brethren ra s all the tobacco that is wanted in the territory ory inasmuch as the brethren will use it and cease paying to outsiders from sixty to eighty thousand 1 I dollars annu lly ily for that one article told 1 them that what hat they were doing was jast as much connected with their salvation and aund that of israel and with the building up of the kingdom of god as if they ere i ere eie preaching gr eachin the gospel of or jesus christ I 1 j eders lorenzo snow E T B t nyon nion geo A S nith and arid john taylor followed all reason I 1 ing to show that we have the ability to become c 0 me a self belf sustaining people in every respect res ct B benediction ene diction by elder S ephen chilman caliman Chi Ch liman palan thursday morning we put out for tor grafton which lies nearly due east from toquerville at this point we ve pass round the last list ink sink of the wasatch cham of fountai s and descend into a wild lo king abyss below and then comes the almost interminable windings of N aphis aist T so called from the fact of air nephi nepul johnson edding ending eiding feeding the company that ex elored and made the road we talk about j mountains arid and valleys bills and dae dac ravines i guu gul ley a and gorges rocks stones gravel bind rivers and creeks well nell they are al n here and I 1 such a road I 1 think does not exist anywhere 1 i else ficia the atlantic to the pacific I 1 have I 1 seen twisted flies files twisted saws an and twisted lumber but I 1 saw such a twist as this but lut we were rewarded for all unpleasant ant i travelling tra velling when we e reached the pretty little site sit e on aich which is being built virgin city the inhabitants complain that the vulgar call I 1 it t Pocket Pock elville villel satiated on the ban s f the rio V rin r in the indian name of this river is I 1 pa pah h roosa e rs talk a about bo lif lie water rmel r mel mei melons 0 su sugar bugar arcane and cotton this is the coudry for thein them the people all look cheer cheerful fulp and appear to enjoy rhems lve finely in their new locations we held meeting in the bowery Pre president silent young deliverer delevere del de livere iverel i a short di discourse in which he said we a e here hid up it in the chambers of the lord if the these seare are not the chambers 0 the lord I 1 am sure I 1 do not know he e they the y are showed that the people are se t there t to 0 accod lish lisa a great and anti good work in orde order r that this people iny as the nations decline N in wisdom and strength and arid finally crumble to pieces the latter litter D y saints may increase and grow s roi ro ger learn ng 0 sustain ain aln and thus thiis become an ind independent e peo le e eders benson and bore testimony the company j into their respective car carriages rages and away we went towards grafton pashing th ough duncans dunchus Dun calls caus retreat a funny name f r a place light tight on the public highway hichwa y to grifton grafton rockville and az several other villages sto ping ring to look round or notice of illa ilia improvements t except the one belonging to thi the late recorder reorder of G S L Cou compty lity rity which is a sort of diamond shaped sq square iare lare built builte if brush and canvass with aith one scarp corner towards the street bu of course this is only a temporary axing simply designed to stand until the cieli labor of 0 this asoo lo 10 boyer yo aye yer i i i I 1 the citizen s of grafton were already assembled when we arrived therefore the president commenced the meeting immediately elder john taylor addre addressed sped the saints for a short time upon the object of their bein being called to locate in those settlements ile he w was waa followed by eld ra rs G A smith E T benson and L snow elder smith harked re that lie he could readily appreciate the feelings of the brethren who had lived in S silt tit like city but he be wished to stat that when we get instructed ted in th doctrines of christ it must aid and will be the policy of this church to ieni feni end us to to different parts of the earth tr t do business for the kingdom rf ct god ile he also said that it should be rem rein inhered that in building a gre great house bouse it is necessary to do it by a variety of or labor hence the means appointed in ill this cli cil church lent young then gave pave counsel relative iye lye to 0 o building houses planting cotton fruit trees etc and to give the land a high cultivation blessed they the eople people in the name of the lod lo 10 d oar friend friends ii entertained us to dinner this Is a fine location and better adapted f for or stock raising than some others aird the brethren feel like going ahead realizing the importance ol 01 the mission assigned assigns d them t i the scenery around grafton is quite pic and roma romantic titi henc there is some bome thing that is both pleasing and attractive to the stranger I 1 I 1 I 1 re regret ret being under the rif rie necessity of recording cordin the occurrence of a fatal accident at this place on friday the ath dinst under the following A boy named joseph Joaeph son of joseph field aged nine idne years was leading two horses down to the river when on pass passi iri iii riz a man carrying a couple coupie of boards on his shoulder shou der one of the animals took fright fricht in consequence of which the clariet by which b ch th unfortunate little fellow was leading one of the horses got fastened aro in I 1 ba bs wrist an i lie he was dragged two and half 1 blocks before the larit lari iari t could be got ot off ile he was da hed into tha th bru h thron throw n a about and arid br bru u sed bed BO so ba lly fly that lie he expired in fifteen after he was vias picked u up every E poa i sible bible effort was maie male by P mr baddley J da ley and aud 1 others to stop the fhe terrified animal but all pr proved proves ve d unsuccessful turning r r ning roun I 1 we came down the ro roid id t j wards Tolue iville at chwi place the president had bad determined to spend the night when ve we had passed through about two thirds of nephis avri tr a fractious hors attached to one of the presidents carri carrl carriages agres arres in wl ich ieh hiram B clawson aid and david 0 calder were riding took a notion to 0 o kick the other animal and c nd off they both started il broke brote the neck yoke turned the carriage empty emptying I 1 ns out all the content animate and inanimate t e litera ly smashing the tipper upper pa part rt of the carriage 0 if not riot int ma roa ch wood at least i to a great may smal small pieces fortunately 1 tuna tely no one was seriously billj ared br Claw sons sona foot was slightly bruised and professor calders caldera car made to tingle by the too cose cose proximity of one of the carriage 1 wheels spinning round in the air at a fearful r speed tied up the broken vesicle reached four our destination without further trouble and aul spent the night with our friends i friday at 10 am we resumed our journe urne urle 1 i p asing over the three mile sand hills lulls we icamen I 1 came to harrisburg a village situate about i mid way between Tolu erville and wa hing 0 I 1 ton and which until now changed by P r eal cai 1 dent young v was as called caned cotton Cott oiw or ilar liar 1 brisville ris ville the r eople being r already gathele I 1 in the bowery the president gave thein them the sary instruction principally of a local char I 1 acter ile he also told ahm foth roth tb ir encourage ant th t he be had sent to the states slates for fur s me carding machines cotton gins for making hawl hanl car sj s all ali allot of which he intended fr for the southern settlement sett ement went over to washington the county seat beat of the county be rin riu ring the same name nanie where A here 1 I 1 we faunl fauni l the innabi inhabitant tanty tants anxiously look looking iti for the pres president ident ah all desiring to hear hl bis his 3 iu ill J I 1 1 oa 0 i the way bom harrisburg our company stop stopped ped their teams walked up the hill east edid aid and took a lew bew of a looking lookin babi basi i in the mountains which bea a indications ot of having been a lake wh ee se outlet has bas I 1 been c ose by where here the rio virgin nw new rugs i A 1 i bublic meeting was wag held in the bowery at washington most of the time in the dark ivance bance I 1 have niale male nia via le my notes from memory of what I 1 heard and not foin forn sight Theau tience was first address rii ril by eders Lo lorenzo reizo siow slow and ezra T benson after which the president gave the brethren mach roach seasonable il st ruction told them to cultivate the cal grape in preference to all others it having having e been beell fou d to be the ibe best adapted to this c climate lie he also advised them to procure the ariy arly barly rare ripe peache the best variety of apples and ali alt 0 othar h cr duits that are ui tabie table to the clim cah ate t t e for a said sald a 41 h b we w want an t to inake make our own tv wine e loi ici to be used at tte sa cramen a little good brandy and aud rum for medicinal purposes T then h en we want indle in a call ran be rai ed anywhere north I 1 da behas F here re and thus s supply u aply ou ourselves r s e 1 v e i with dye tutis studs it is licit t the h e less i important p 0 r t a pt I 1 the tiie olive for we nee lee need leed d m the pile hiie liae olive al 01 oil ia E edels del dei a john taji tayl taylor icar aid george A smith bore testimony this is a good location and has facilities for the building up and supposing sup ol 01 of a large town we saw baw flae liae pale pate es of cotton growing ing here and that by bishop co ing big ton and his neighbors had attuned a lux luy biant irow trow tl the tha the tha breth en trea ej v us I 1 ito to peaches water melons in abundance ard holie bOlle boney 3 yes sir air we had deseret honey ft fi esh f arn the hive placed on the thet table tab aich wana wasa I 1 k a new thing of q ly iq irl imlau lah iab laU saturday A sabbath days tourney journey brought us to st george a city beautiful for situation as good a site as any of salt lake city on reach reaching hg the public square old friends flocked around us with warm hearts and cheerful countenances our com corn pany party were soon ensconced with tb thein their air friends in the bowery was deposited a wagon load of irn melons lons which had bad been brought there as a treat for our company and such melons as eo rio no bogrow grow rowan anywhere w ere in i n utah north of washington in tan county count they had a fine rich flavor ius lus lou jou s to t the e tas e some of them weighing from frA forty to fifty pounds athe A the city a laid off h iii blocks 32 rods square each block is divided into eight lotse lots the streets running north and south and east and west as in G S L cit uty the soil toil is a fine sandy loam and ia is capable of producing nearly everything that is adapted to a southern cliate in alin almost ost everything put into the I 1 ground grows growa with amazing amalin rapidity As a tample hamp e I 1 may state that one brother called my ray attention to a row of very thrifty look ill lit ing shade shad trees of the round lound leafed cottonwood variety which he told me had grown from some bome stakes he chopped off five feet roos roo a last may trimmed off the bra branches and brought them home hoire for fire wood mood they remained in the wood pile three week when it occurred ared to him that he be would follow the example of h s neighbors whereupon hereupon he made wi s i all holes in the th ground with a crowbar put in those straight sticks they made root and have grown into nice shade trees equal to those of three years growth in salt sait lake cey this is the way the stgeorge st george people raise all their shade trees treb tree I 1 nevar taking the trouble to di dig up roots for transplanting r in tile the aft anoon the Pre pres blent bent and such of the as chose toe toc theether ether with a number of the fo ks ke from bt st george visited salita santa clara where we saw br jacob chambl i 78 I 1 peach orchard containing it is es estimated d one thousand bushels of fruit but those thore ripe were only of poor quality the president his friends fr lenus ienus walked round and viewed the effects of the late flood an account of j which has been published and then returned to st george lying lair g between st george and santa clara is an immense quantity of volcanic cinders here and there piled up in la ge gi heaps looking j as though there had bad been a train of rall rail railroad 11 1 1 cars tipped over in that vi anity the bed or ridge that we crossed caer I 1 judge to be a quarter of a mile wide and three miles long iong at least the range of our vision oslon being 1 confined to this last distance by the intervening 1 mountains north and faulb about ten or twelve miles north of this point I 1 understand are the he cra era ers era of two t volcanoes their depth I 1 belie e has not leen fathomed tat fat lomei tomed everything in this neigh Lo Lb has the appear nee of having been I 1 i out this part of the territory has hag I 1 s been the scene of bome some most terrific volcanic eruptions for the w ole country j aroun I 1 seems to have been deluged by livers of molten lav I 1 I 1 since t e destruction by last sp in ings ins I 1 s fl 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