Show la ia BISHOP e P F A I 1 returns from froin colorado and relates Ws ills observations I 1 I 1 E I 1 our sanctum waa was made glad to day by the genial smiles of our old and and fruited friend hon F A hammond aho vho ho has just returned from an extended trip through the I 1 southern country air company with his son samuel 0 5 mr air hammond hammo 0 left his happy lionie in huntsville on the nf f december traveling along the tile I 1 lint iab of 01 the D 4 II 11 G it it his ilis first stop of any note was at pueblo col 01 where a portion of the mor inon battalion wintered in 1816 1846 18 16 to 1847 there he saw tin tilt stump ump of an immense pine tree eight feet across on which are tire recorded some startling his 1 fads such as that kit car aon son had once dined under th tilt shadow of its tillage also that 13 men with their hoots boots on off had been strung up on ite its limbs by judge lynch the city of pueblo pro pre an aspect of business and ac tie libity there being large bessemer bessen er steel works an and many other bran brand brangles cles cs of industry ind inactive operation era tion our friend was n astonished i at not finding airy airy utah papers on the 1 1 news stands it in that livel lively y town not even a tribbie Tri buie which beabe he accounts far art frt bv liv the fact that there is no anti Mormon sentiment manifested the e from pueblo mr hammond andian an and dinn son continuing on the D it G R R traveled to durango passing through the southern part of the great san luia luis va duhey lc in conejos county than chichy which ou our r friend has casid through no finer country the rho valley is about milea smiles long by 40 wide forming a basin ot unsurpassed 1 fertility ertil tty the soil being the best that cun can be imagined as he lie says a plow would be usta bipin the soft before re reaching aching the end of its possible furrow at li la hura hara me mere mera ra Hantin nud got off the train and awl after a clemant plea plem ant walk of I 1 mile reached a neat little INlo mormon ilmon called richfield Kich field vt where here they were emst keidi kindly v received aed mr nir H noticed that the houses could hardly been avii fur for the ailed ailed up straw stacks which in dirand what bountiful a crop the tile p olla had bad had the last season I 1 every man having raised atan at an nv av crag i g kuhels lU hels of grain rain our friende en it enjoyed especially Ply the open heart of bishop bertelson ono one of the pioneers from front san pete county from this gentleman t they hey received considerable valuable information ns to the unparalleled productiveness of the soil an instance stance of which is the fact that an acre of laud yields bui bushels liels of cats while about 50 is a large yield in this part of the colt country potatoes turnips turnip 9 and vegetables tables of all I 1 I 1 kinds grow to a in mammoth ammoth size and none the worse in flavor and mitri piousness fencing material fuel and timber in general arc are in dance on the hillsides hill sides no arduous climbing being required thus enabling I 1 the industrious to make homes in a chort time in the afternoon of the same day bishop hammond Hamnio nd and son soil were driven over eight miles ortho finest most fertile soil to manasas Ma manas naas as another mormon settlement where they found president bilas silas S smith in whom our bi hop ape an all old time fellow missionary J in the tile sandwich rs islands hinds after I 1 an agreeable stay all night flight our weber bounty explorers berc back to 10 la elnra by bro willi unon leacher at u altee nehme sl tee schol I 1 bishop visited and found in a mot mo t satisfactory condition at la carau harau side station on the D it I 1 R G tile they took the tile train again and jour aupied on tn to durango traveling the romantic tic at and I 1 extremely 1 picturesque toltec pass pass the like of which cannot ho he produced they their also admired the masterly workmanship exhibited in the construction ofalie road ite its tunnels curves and other portions being constructed with I 1 bs and find solidity our friends also paw faw the enormous coal beds in la plata county Cou uty the extent of which is as atule stupendous S n doup a as 8 the quality of the mineral ia is excellent on the they arrived in in the ni midst i V alst of a it howling I 1 baill I g which a ted I 1 11 4 nine III days lays during inch they aw saw liv ithee sun moon timon nur nor starts durang ii i i a nice nice illich Illi ct lown aim sitti abed on gin bith b ith 41 ajl rifles of the lie annunzi it iziver iver 6 gitig the critter center of f a targe Il mining and I 1 grazini grazing district am aud the tile port ja rf supply for fir and ano laititi ranch t during im 11 alit lit b atik title bibi 11 1 li ald brn srn 1 1 atut tile chri atmaa and nw new yar year greatly relishing b the delicacies delica cirs of the tho bellson alt usain st t which was pir dif ion attic th c butcher stalls 1111 e making di plays pla of t meats of ull till kisida aich would lauve been a cradit to much 1 li arger towns our fr ane ael d it ellid ercul lent quarters add alid rn first ei couite ims ac ai tho the bherman houer house whose hat and amiable huste hoste s mr and mra mrs charlt charlta a thompson did till all till in their power to make their utah guests conff ratable having heard afan english company rouging a stock in ill sanjuan San Juau co atall itaas as well as in new mexico and baum who have an office at durango Dura ogo mr hammo nd called on the manager a mn carlyle Carly lc in whom he lie found a perfect johy jolly old style john bull full ol 01 energy entel oprise and gen tie tip manly deportment the company represented by that thai gentleman of vast wealth aud and ia is a colo combination large resources I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 ap fotr ni the blockade was baited the ibshop anil and sou soil took their departure homeward bound without meeting interim int etim with any any special incident being greatly the anif uniformly courteous treatment extended to them by iq the c i on duc tora tors ant and oilier other employees of the preat great 11 scenic 3 benic route the D I 1 4 it G it it they arri vedin ogden lat evening glad to la be home again among their friends of a generation ch era tion ulin 1 also arc fire plea pleast d to shake handa hands with tho the bishop and hid bid hini flin tigh seven days lays behind date a happy new yead I 1 1 |