Show NL rill juab co january editor acius monroe is probably the next set tl ement in point of size to richfield in sevier bevier county it has a fine location on the opposite side of the valley from the last named settlement tl the soil is of a lerent different kiln ilif color to that on the richfield rich Bich nield field side bein being dark lacking the ruddy tinge spoken of in a former comma licati ni cation catlon 1 on it may be here stated that the redness of the soil on one side of the valley seems to originate from earthy depo sites in the mountains which in the distance have the appearance of common venetian red used by painters the rains and melting snows doubtless wash this highly colored substance into the valley beneath giving the prevailing tinge to the soil monroe is is a prosperous thriving settlement possessing many ad advantage vanta ge samong which are a number of not mot and warm springs which are situated in the foot hills a adew few minutes walk from the upper part of the town those spriggs are quite numerous and their temperature pera ture is from lukewarm almost to boiling point they flow perpetually petua lly and any one of them has sufficient capacity for supplying a good sized bath house A hasty and brief visit to them convinced us that the waters were iron sodium and sulphur and we were informed inform od that their effects upon those who bathe in them are beneficial in an extraordinary degree their action upon all cases of diseases being especially salutary around one of those curious springs is a peculiar deposit from the waters it is of a dark red color resembling what is known as indian red home some of the settlers have mixed this tills sub substance tance which asvery is very fine requiring no grinding with linseed linseed oil and with this mixture have painted the exterior of their adonio houses the effect of this is that over the is found a hard smooth glossy surface rendering them impervious to the action of moisture causing them we should suppose to be as durable as the best brick sevier valley offers very perlor superior su advantages to honest and industrious people who wish to make themselves homes the limato being mild and salubrious extremes of either heat or cold being rare the tile soil is rich nich pro is dueing superior vegetables and cereals timber and fuel are easily obtainable taina tai tal nabie bie ble and there is a good range for cattle all that is required to make it one of the most desirable not to say delightful places laces in the territory is labor andy andi and the hardy sons of toll toil will soon flock there and make the transformation tile the road from sevier valley to cove creek fort lies iles through clear creek canyon the road through this mountain gorge was recently made by the people of sevier county at an expense of it Is one of the bense best e st canyon roads in the territory and is sixteen miles in length much common sense and tact ta ct have been bisp displayed ayed in its construction tom to make ake ahe this considerable blasting I 1 filling and cutting had to be done don e the are about the safest and best we have seen as they slope inwards to the mountain side in instead of towards the outer edge of the road as is frequently the case the expense of the work has seriously embarrassed the people but it was considered to be je next to in dispensable as it brought them seventy three miles nearer to the only available market for their produce than any other road they could take which is a most important consideration even that market however on account of the dull times has almost failed them this season the demand for the grain in pioche and neighboring mining camps being very verb very limited insull in buil bull diug ding that road the people acted under the reasonable expectation that territory through the legislature would come to their relief and compensate them for the benefit they have bestowed on the public in opening up a road through a mountain fastness we believe that they are justly entitled to compensation for the work they have thus performed ad ard that all who may have occasion to travel through clear creek canyon will coincide in that opinion the scenery in the canyon for wild sublimity beauty and und grandeur is probably scarcely surpassed even by that of echo and the cottonwoods Cotton woods the ground at the mouth is covered with a growth of cedars and black volcanic boulders from the siz size e of a negros head to that of a large hogshead are strewn everywhere in profusion soon sing the head of the canyon the eye of the traveler is struck with admiration at the wonderful and ponderous character of his surroundings roun dings to the left are stee steep p mountain sides surmounted by jutting crags which look frowning jy y and cast deep shadows upon the meandering stream which flows on its peaceful course along the bed of this mountain pass to the left however the eye is most intensely attracted for there the masonry of nature assumes the most fantastic forms now towering skyward to giddy heights and again forming into natural battlements reminding one of the historic feua feudal strongholds strong holds of the old world while other strange formations would bring forcibly to mind the remains of ancient architecture which attract the curiosity seeking of the present generation then would break upon the view an occasional opening revealing to tile the contemplation of the observer successive tips of mountains stretching far away in the distance and then comes a grove adrove of majestic pines and dwarfish cedars but when tho the narrows are reached readied the scene beggars the descriptive pen of the writer or the brush of the artist the traveler is virtually enclosed surrounded imprisoned he reaches a point when on every side the towering rocks rise perpendicularly hundreds of feet leaving no apparent opening for ingress or ea egress the tho soul that can gaze unmoved in a upon such a scene is to be pitied being barren of a most fruitful source of delight to more appreciative natures A striking feature of the rocky formations of this canyon are occasional large patches of strata of almost pure whiteness which adds to the singular beauty of the scenery near the middle of the canyon is a toll gate kept by br other brother i wm warnock who with bis family has certainly a most solitary abode especially in thae dull duli times when travel on the road is comparatively small when the divide or summit is reached the road which leh ieh heretofore had a gentle upward incline of probably fifty feet to tile the mile lias has a rapid declination and the traveler is soon at cove creek tort vort which was built about nine years ago for the purpose of affording protection from the indians to the southern traveler in times when the were not so peacefully disposed as they appear to be now the fort is the halfway half way stopping place between kanosh on the north of iland beaver deaver to the southward it is constructed of rock the surrounding wall being probably twenty feet high with convenient loopholes loop holes at every available point and the gates being in keeping are ponderous and neavy beavy the rooms are built with roofs sloping inwardly from the wall the place is kept by mr ira im hinckley who provides entertainment for man a and nd beast beaver is quite a place it has evidences of progress in a variety of directions with the exception of logan it has probably about the best operative cooperative co store building in utah it is of dark bluish rock is 65 x 28 feet two stories above ground besides a full sized basement cellar for stowage the exterior and interior are well finished the tile first floor is used for the conducting of the business of the operative cooperative co institution ution while the upper part is divided into rooms which are rented for offices the building was erected under the direction of mr james lowe who informed us that the entire cost of its construction was which appeared to us to be small smail considering the character orthe of the structure the woollen factory which is under the of bishop john ashworth turns out a really excellent article of cloth tweed and doeskin ia fil fit t to be placed upon any market to detail the many mavy evidences worthy of consideration would take too much time and space they are so numerous there are some things however which are not so pleasing as the evidences of material progress above mentioned there is considerable A week ago last sunday several fights occurred on the streetia etsa contestant tg tant in one of them was a little fellow who figured ridiculously not to say conspicuously some time ago in this city end and who was known hereabout by the singular cognomen of 8 11 it will be seen b by y this that the leopard has not clanged his spots besides such individual as 8 there is a military post only two miles distant from town it may be said however that the soldiers of that post are not generally of the extra rowdy sort but are rather more respectable b in in their conduct than soldiers of the ranks are usually but still disturbances arise occasionally and the peace loving citizens appear to have no power to t effectually check them this is not on account of lack of will power but the want of the necessary legally delegated power er from the authorities that ea be 17 true beaver received from the territorial legislature a kind of a sort of at a charter but it is too limited in its grant of power to be of much avail under existing circumstances as it does not provide for the organizing of a regular police force for the payment of licen licenses ac we understand however that the subject will be brought before the legislature during the present session of that body when doubtless the matter will bo be rectified fled fied and beaver affairs be rendered as smooth as a summer sea miners Hiners ville is a small but prosperous town about eighteen miles west of beaver the people there have almost completed a new brick school house which is 65 x 30 feet they have the advantage of being within a days drive from the star mining district which furnishes a fair market for grain and other produce and the consequence of this is that greenbacks green backs ame are a little more plen pien plentiful ti than in the settlements genc gene brally although a scarcity of lawful currency is complained of even thele kanosh which derives its name from the intelligent old indian chief the headquarters of whose band are in that locality he was in town when we reached there and looked as benign benignant ant and friendly as usual A great deal of fruit is raised in this settlement but our stay in it was coo brief to enable us to note moie than the general peculiarities of the place leaving kanosh we struck out for fillmore where we arrived late in the evening tired and jaded the team h having av all but given out on the way necessitating a walk of several beveral miles through mud slush and snow wo we saw little or nothing of fillmore as we entered it after dark darkin in the evening and left before daylight t in the morning but so far us as we were a able ablo ble bie to juffe judge ludge we supposed it to be one of the best est settlements in utah of its size it is well built up is a splendid fruit raising city being probably behind none other in the territory in the latter iatter particular and in conjunction with other bettie settie settlements ments of millard county it has probably the best and most prosperous operative cooperative co stock herd hero in the west which has been a great substantial benefit to the people at six on the morning of the it was quite dark and a heavy snowstorm snow storm prevailed those conditions were naturally somewhat bewildering as well as disagreeable and in leaving fillmore we struck off to ta the left instead going straight ahead and were soon lost in the storm still we traveled on through the deepening and in vain valli hope that we might possibly b bs on or might at least strike the main road we went over rough and steep places up and up till we got to le the end of the road on which we traveled and reached a dense growth dwarf cedars we turned back and after going several miles another road which we followed only to find ourselves after another doivo of several miles among the cedars once more and as much at a loss as to where we were as ever the storm had cleared away and climbing to the summit of an eminence we descried a settlement in the distance how we got over that summit with our carriage and tired team and how we threaded our way through cedars and made a track through miles of tall sagebrush sage brush and snow and reached holden or cedar springs f is somewhat of a mystery to look b ack back at we arrived at that settlement however in the afternoon and not having breakfasted we were in a fit condition to do am pie ju stice to a emeal which we did di d leaving the really handsome settlement fl of cedar springs we struck out for fon seipio SCIPIO with a fresh team and arrived there just about dusk in the evening scipio is the only settlement I 1 in what is called round valley the farming land is watered from a little valley which is metamorphosed into a reservoir or lake by the turning into it of several everal 3 streams it is a prosperous settlement now but the circumstances of its early history were anything but agreeable as the inhabitants were fredt frequently bently subjected to indian raids in which they tiley were robbed of their cattle and some of their number were murdered in that as well as in other places there beems seems to be a disposition to devote more time than hitherto to intellectual pursuits and on the evening we spent there the advisability of organizing a mutual improvement pro association was taken under tinder consideration by some of the leading citizens J N improvements schools measles ile lle creation fairview CO jan 23 1874 editor deseret news the brethren are getting out lumber building material and poles from the canyon and trying to make their homes attractive and comfortable and also hoping for the railroad to bo in the tile pro gramme for next summer to fairview a thing so FO much needed by us all then we would be within a few hours ride of salt lake as it now takes us from nine to twelve days trudging with a team we have one sabbath school and two day schools all well attended about one hundred and fifty children attend the day schools the health of our town is good with the exception except len ien of a good many cases of measles none fatal as yet the saints kere bere here feel well and enjoy benjok themselves the evidence of will which c may ma y bo be seen in our new 39 x 23 feet rock school house every few evenings in the shapo shape of a dance J F YOUNG napoleon the first history has not represented the first napoleon as he was in reality poets private secretaries courtiers enthusiasts enemies and chimber ers have drawe the portrait alt ait we p propose e to examine his cha eha character raUer from t the e point of view of physiologist and positivist napoleon was neither dark nor fair 1 ilg he 16 had dark chestnut hair eyes gray complexion of a pale brown without any red in it and a smooth skin the brain was large the skull belonged to the largest development ever known his circulation was slow the pulse counting forty beats a minute he perspired little and was insensible ailko alike to heat and cold hunger and thirst his chest wa was wab a prominent and his lips well proportioned his height was five fet tet fet set two labes inches of a lymphatic temperament ho he could support alike excess of physical and men inen tal exertion it was a constitution of granite warm baths COMO coffee and strong wines restored his circulation his intellect was vast and many sided applying itself to details and generalizations erali ons made up of prodigious memory that rapidly took act aci 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