Show lincoln CO nevada july 31 1883 editor deseret news in my communication to the NEWS a voice from the muddy overton was baid said to be 90 miles from the colorado river niver itle it as scarcely SO 30 1 I was at the river the other day and was waa surprised at its I 1 magnitude mr keeps a nerry ferry at the mouth of the virgen formerly stones ferry perry assured me the colorado at hla hig place was yards wide 63 feet deep in the channel with a rapid current at full fuli stage of water which happens generally about the of june it will then compare favorably with the missouri the steamer made two trips to this point this heason beason her principal business to is to take salt to the eldorado mines home bome 75 15 miles below she can only come at fall tide and then it is hard work but the going down ja Is easily done in two and a half hours this Is a country of salt sait not a mountain of salt sait only bat a range of salt mountains and much of it is as clear and pure as aa glass silver reef is partly supplied from here it is furnished at tho the mines for 2 60 50 per ton and is mostly red by Na blasting sting grain crops arb eire not extra ezira mig nig year hay bay and vegetables are good barley is now telling at 3 cent cents lucern hay bay atta per pen ton this stream called the muddy is remarkable for its uniformity for mity remaining nearly the same all the year round it the labor labon could be had to drain the tule this valley would bo be the gra grauers tiery of the bouth south there is 18 talk of a railroad we wish it would come and so connect the utah southern with the A and P road beyond the colorado this valley would be a great feeder and would develop into something bom som ething worth warth ile seeing eing we celebrated the Na nations tlona tiona birthday with spirit and for the first time since the saints sainta vacated the place twelve years yearb ago outsiders were invited and most of the families were represented and some of them took part in the exercises the bees of deseret must of necessity swarm and I 1 see no reason why the young swarms could not just as well locate near the old hive hivel as to go a thousand mile miles away here is land and water unoccupied the best recommend I 1 need give the muddy valley Is that there are thre three emen men here that have traveled through most of arizona in search of a home and have returned and bought at overton the sweet potatoe seems at home here and grapes and fruit will do excellently I 1 know of no place on the continent that can beat this for grapes the thel grapes sire bre called children of the ban burl and here they get gel plenty of it timber is ia easily raised here I 1 have about cottonwood trees growing of guich I 1 put out lub iut march mere sticks stuck in the ground I 1 put them out by plowing a ditch or ditches about 80 feet apart and put my uny cuttings six or eight feet apart in the drill by running a steel bar for some four feet deep in the bottom of the drills and then thrusting my slips down the hole thus made with the bar input I 1 pui put out my grapevines the bame same way though not so BO far apart an acre of land laud Is ia sufficient for fon 1000 vines I 1 have juit measured off my rny cottonwood trees grown from a mere stick not much larger than my thumb put out in march last the offshoot offs offa hoot brom erom which now measures 9 feet in length and a fraction less than two inches in diameter for fish ponds this Is 19 a most excellent place on account of the steady flow of water J W CROSBY |