Show VISITING THE SAINTS on sunday march I 1 left st rge for the ibe purpose of visiting the cements of the saints lying far to ahe e northward and after traveling five e miles I 1 reached the quiet little lown wn of santa clara pleasantly situ pled d on the left bank of the stream after er which the settlement is named this is is IB the oldest settlement of the ints on this side aide of the rim of the basan Bas in ln it was first loe located sited as a mis flonary nary station by jacob hamblin and fliers erg in 1854 and now has a population n of souls or thirty eight daml cami B all swiss except four families the sent ut bishop is john 0 hafen ita iata clara to is a prosperous little town t the facilities of the same are very limited tied almost every foot of available omd is cultivated for all it is worth d there is really no chance for the to grow consequently the foung ing people as ar a rule when they and beg begin n to ra raise se families 0 of air own have to leave the old home jfe and seek places for themselves embere ew bere to dwell on monday the after meeting ditth b the old settlers of santa clara I 1 16 out for gunlock about eighteen tiles distant but being unacquainted ath the road I 1 went up the jackson itan h and at length found myself in a reat t of cedars near the top of the mountains discovering my mistake bt a hasty retreat and struck the ata ta clara stream about sundown ten the clouds which all day had bleared bleated ted an approaching storm began abend d forth a heavy rain exposed to which blob and shrouded in utter darkness 3 traveled nine or ten miles to gunk w where here I 1 arrived about nine ock lock at night having crossed the aak ek forty six eix times since leaving the ement of santa caara and having the strength of my light vehicle leaping it over the magnificent iders and rocky ledges with which ase creek bed abounds after coming overs r such ucb a road as this in a dark height ht and reaching my destination out accident I 1 felt truly thankful be e lord for his protection ind and I 1 taink 1 I shall not for a long time after experience feel inclined to complain cornin comin plain of the condition of the roads in corthern Tor thern utah notwithstanding the late hour of my arrival pr rival the people of gu alock turned out the meeting appointed and in for a time gunlock ward embraces the village of gunlock and a ranch on creek six miles north the village consists of a string of houses nestling in the midst of thrifty orchards and is situated on the west side of the santa clara at a point pant where the narrow gorge through which that stream passes from its source in the pine valley mountains to the rio bio virgen widens out to the width of nearly a quarter of a mile the place dirce is about twenty three miles northwest of st george twenty two miles from pine valley and twenty two and a half miles from hamblin in the mountain meadows the strength of the ward is represented in thirteen families or eighty five souls soul ig presided over by bishop franklin 0 holt who acts with wm E jones and james S P bowler as counselors the very limited amount of land at this point acres is rich and productive and notwithstanding its isolated location the inhabitants seem to be pleased with their little oasis in the desert leaving gunlock on the morning of thursday march we followed the santa clara for a distance of about two miles then pawed passed over a mountain ridge locally known as white hill and ana thence down to and across the Mago Ma gotso tsoa a small stream rising in the mountain meadows and putting into the santa clara above gunlock thence up a long steep rocky dugway at the upper end of which the traveler finds himself on a stretch of elevated table land overlooking the dixie country southward thence the road crow crosses the bench and follows washes iii in their windings between the mauu mountains until cans cane springs lis Is reached from which an opening 1 in the mountains westward affords easy access to the mountain meadows which consists of a narrow valley extending north and south for a distance of about seven miles with an average width of nearly a mile the rim ot the basin divides the valley into a northern and southern section tion and in the extreme north end stands the village of hamblin thus named for the late indian interpreter and missionary jacob hamblin who is widely and very favorably known throughout this entire southern country most of the land in the mountain meado meadows lying south of the rim is owned by harrison J burmese burgess whose ranch house bouse stands oear near the spot where the arkansas company of emigrants emie ranta met their sad fate in the fall of 1857 the little place known as hamblin has baa at present live five families which together with three families at holts ranch constitute a branch of the pluto ward after stopping over night at hamblin with elder ider james canfield an aged vo veteran teran I 1 continued w my y journey five miles down spring creek and through a canyon in a northwesterly direction to holts ranch where I 1 obtained some historical information from brother james holt now 88 years of age thence I traveled over the extreme south end of the great escalante desert in a blinding snow snowstorm storm to the mouth of shoal creek canyon going up which I 1 soon reached the pleasant little village of hebron where r I 1 was given a hearty welcome in the hospitable home of bishop thomas 8 terry and preached to the people in the evening the following day was spent in obtaining historical information and holding another meeting with the people of hebron and towards evening I 1 drove five and a half miles in a westerly direction to bishop terrys ranch where I 1 spent the night the hebron ward embraces the town of hebron terrys terry is ranch bar bums place or shoal creek two miles below hebron a ranch much in little pine va vallrey vall liley ley north of and ft a few scattered settlers on spring creek southeast of hebron all in washington n IV ton county utah also the clover valley alley branch and green edwin in lincoln county nevada the whole ward oon consists of twenty six families or souls the town of hebron is pleasantly located on shoal creek in a little valley boar dered on the south couth by a mountain chain which here forms the river of the basin bain the altitude of the place is 5 feet above the level of the sea all kinds of small grain to is raised but it is rather too cold for fruit except the smaller hardier kinds the principal industry of the people to is the facilities for pasturage in the surrounding mountains and on the desert northward being excellent in n fact the place was first located in 1862 as a herd ground for the stock from st george and other dixie settlements and the late john ber whose personal notes furnishes a full and accurate history of the place writes that on n the of august 1868 when apostle erastus snow and others visited the place a townsite te was located and surveyed and named hebron after ancient scriptural hebron we read in genesis aill 18 that abram after separating from lot removed his bie test teat and came and dwelt in the plain of mamre which is in hebron band and built there an altar to the lord 2 so it was also with us writes brother Pul elpher when president erastus snow gave us a mis sion bion to take care of the stock belonging to st george we moved on until we rame came to shoal creek the first place we found suitable for our bust busi nese nee there we found plenty of feed and good water for our flocks and herds so we located ourselves and called the place cebron and gave thanks to the lord 11 the town of hebron has bas only twelve families at present but is a neat healthy looking place knol and contains a number of fine comfortable residences mostly brick buildings with a commod commodious lous schoolhouse in the center of them the adjacent farming land is very rich and productive which is suggested to the stranger at once as he approaches the town through a most prolific forest of tall heavy sagebrush in all my travels I 1 have never seen that noted plant 1 of the great west grow ta taller er or grander than on shoat shoal creek in the morning of friday april let accompanied by bishop terry and hall bah a dozen others ethers I 1 set out for clover valley in nevada the ground being covered with deep snow and the weather being cold traveling was rather unpleasant about nine miles wes west t of terrys ranch after passing over several mountain ridges and some deep gulches gulch ts we crossed the rim ol of the basin and about a qu quarter arter of a mile further the boundary line between utah and nevada going down a gentle slope we were soon in the midst of it a very extensive forest of cedars and small pi pine ne a and nd from the top of I 1 a ridge separating t the be headwaters of the beaver dams dame wash and the country drained the Meadow valley wash cashwe we had bad a line fine view of one of the most interesting watersheds watershed sin in the mountains it takes in the whole country lying westward as far as the eye can reach and covered ve ith snow as aa it was on that day the scenery was wild and romantic in going down hill toward the clover valley settlement we found the snow much less and by the time we reached the village we found ourselves traveling in deep mud clover valley pro er consists of a small opening in the mountains mountain extending east and west along aloag the clover valley ward for about five it is in about a mile wide at the point where the settlement stands but tapers off to a canyon at both ends the present settlement only contains eight families belonging to the hebron ward who are pre presided elded over by elder lyman L woods a man noted for his unflinching integrity to the baube ot god only about thirty five aeres of land to is farmed at the present time but there are nearly two hundred acres of very fine pasture and meadow land this place is on the line of the union pacific railway extension the grading of which was done two years ago and the people are anxiously looking for the day when the rails will be laid and the place thus thug be released from its present loneliness clover valley is thirty miles southwest of hebron 80 miles northwest of st george 80 miles southeast of panacea and 42 miles ut beast of pioche clover valley was first settled in 1864 and contained soon after that about 30 families glen edwin once a place of some importance but now occupied by only one family consists of two ranches situated on the head of the north fork of the beaver dam Wash about twenty miles west of hebron and about five miles to the left of the road leading from hebron to clover valley from here I 1 go to panacea ANDREW JENSON JEMSON CLOVER VALLEY lincoln county nov nev april 2 1892 |