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Show I NEAR RURYSVALE Hj ' Marysvale. Utah, Sept. 2C A tew H ( weeks slnco the somnolent citizens of Hj 'i this picturesque and peaceful hamlet H ' rubhod their -eyes in the eiTort to dis- H cover if they wero awake, or merely Hl dreaming of Che early pioneer days. H Down tho dng&vay, just south of the M . village, wound the advance portion H i of a slow-moving ox-tcam caravan. The M younger portion of the village folk H had novcr seoa an ox team. The heavy H 'I lumbering "pEalrio schooners," tho H ' quaint-dressed and sombrero-shaded B ' "bullwhackers and tho geo and H "haws" of tho teamsters, as tho train 1 moved slowly through tho town and H down to tho bottom land near the Hl Denver &. Bio Grande station, mingled H strangely with, tlio excited commenta B of tho natives. "Whore In the world H did this section of the days of '49 H come from?" "Where Is it going?" H ' and "What is It's business'" were H somo of tho questions that smote- an Hl atmosphoro that 1b nearly always sur- Hi charged with, luterrogatlon points. V" t Pahrcah. Is a village situated In a H nnrrow valley, or canyon, down Hl through which the Pahreah "river" IB ' tumbles on its way to tho Colorado river, a few miles above Leo's Ferrv, In Arizona Pahreah village has the M I distinction of being the extreme limit M of civilization in eastern Kane county M The Pahreans raised nn abundance of B fiult for home consumption, and cat- H tlo and sheep for export. Occasional- B ly a stranger gets lost in south-central H "Utah, and yet more occasionally one M of them drops down from the "rim of M tho basin" Into Pahreah a region un- M surpassed for picturesque barrennosB, M desolation and isolation. Tho stories M told by tho once-a-year visiting drum-v H mers of tho primeval condition of "so- H ciety" at Pahreah aire at once numer- H ous and amusing. M The chlcfest item of scenery in the H vicinity of Pahseah is a chain of blue H clav hills that aie almost intermln- H ablo in number and variety H Stranger Buys Land. H One morning, several years ago, H and almost before th,e Inhabitants wore H awake, a. stranger arrived in Pahreah, H and before dlnneir, so it is reported H ho had purchased every farm and H town lot in the narrow valley. H The ox train was from Arizona, and H V7on)d load boilcrc, engines and quecr- H looldng machinery at the larysvalc Hr station, and the destination was Pah- H reah. That was about all tho infor- H mation that the jirofossional force of H pump interviev.'era of JIarysvalo could H extract from the Arizona "bullwhack- H era" and there was no one else that H could, or cared to give to the inqulsl- H live denizens of the terminal town H the coveted infonmation. H LILtlo by little It leaked out that H the blue hills, even the sand and M gravel of the Pahreah yield gold plat- H or gold to tho amount of from 40 M cents to $180 por square yardl The H river will furnish, an abundance of M water. Six miles below tho vlHngo M Is an inexhaustabhc supply of coal of fl excellent quality. In fact, the region H ' from Escalante, in Garflold county, to tho Colorado river is lltornlly Beamed with magnificent gold dopoBlts. Tho latest information is to the effect ef-fect that the company, headquarters in Chicago, has been for Borne time successfully exploiting the Colorado bars above Lee's Ferry, and that tho Pahrcah operations will bo an addition addi-tion to tho original enterprise. And doubtless It was from ono of tho bars at the mouth of tho Pahrcah river that the company's agents trace the gold to the blue clay hills before mentioned. JReccntly a steamboat about GO foot long, arrived here on the cars, of course, from San Francisco It will bo taken to a point on Warm creek, bolow Pahreah and will ply between that point and the Colorado river. |