Show UTAH A GUIDE TO THE STATE 0 note for our reprint this week from this valuable book we have chosen several paragraphs from tour 9 on page which includes interesting te information about monticello and answers questions often asked of us from correspondents monticello ft alt pp ap seat of san juan county is is a col coal green town on tle the east slope of the abajo mountains munt ains it was biam named ed for thomas jeffersons home in the virginia but the name llama is pronounced monti SELLO SELL O 0 instead of monti chell o as in the east temperatures here rarely reach 90 degrees the highest ever recorded was 98 the lowest 21 below zero hot days are followed by cold nights and the temperature may drop as much as 50 degrees after sunset et the growing season is short among armong the first settlers was parley butt mr butt passed on a few months ago he was in the scouting party that first penetrated swit southeastern heastern utah he was a member of the fated group that made mormon morman history by their ex experiences perler es at the hole in the rock in 1892 monticello was caught in the san juan county gold rush see tour 10 in 1894 a group of Colora doans under the leadership of david F day indian agent influenced the U S house of depre representatives senta tives to pass a bill awarding land in san juan county to the southern ute indians in exchange for la land nd in southern colorado the rest of this chapter makes interesting inte g reading about abou t this deal and what followed also information about the abajo mountains and roads leading into this mountainous section the chapter closes with the following description of land east of the town between monticello and the colorado line U S makes the only east west crossing of sage plain 1200 square miles of level brush covered country deeply gashed by a network net work of canyons |