The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-10-03

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Z NEWS FROM THE PLAINS.
| barripal from The Sab Lace. Nescs J;oa, the
lN CaiitosaiG Emigraats-- Their Progress
- Territorial Goverap,e attsn the Great
Basin.
Tn the Frontier Guardian, the paper pub,
lished ut Kanesville, Iowa, by Mr.. o Hyde,
Gays the st. Louis Republican, we find some
alter and quite interesting news from tho
Salt Lake Valley, and the cmigrarits. he
Guardian is the organ Of the Mormons, and
| ofcoGrse devoted q good deal Of its space, on
this occasion, to Mormon affairs. We ex-
tract so much Of the intelligence as is Of ge-
neral interest,
This news wns brought by a. w. Babbitt,
who arrived ii Kancsyille on the Sd met,
lin 36 days from he Valley Of the Salt Lake.
He was water bound on the route 8 days
/ He performed the trip with ono man and
Iseyen hnrses, and light wagon, in which
he brought the mail
News from, the Valley is quite oncourag-
Ling. The crickets entirely disappear where
fowl and swine are permitted to range.
They have suffered comparatively mono this
are good, corn looks prospe rous beets, carr
lrots, squashes. pump ins, and other yege-
lta5 los are excellent. he health of the
citizens there was good, and great activity
id business prevailed. al bort twelve or Fl
| teen thousand q lifurnia Elm grants passed
throug d tha Valley, and about three thou
lsarid calculated 10 winter there. Many of
1.-The Californians had been baptized, and in
some Of the first class of them for wealtf,
Icharac nd infldsncc. n 9 difficulty APP
lpearsd between our people and the Ca!ifor-
aia grant y, and the Indiansare all friend
and seem anxious to learn and become
3; !. ;;i;s, al hey wish TO learn to cultivate
the 81 So hey can have a plenty Of
bread, &c. alssss !, 3.
Dgr people lsbraIsd the ssash OF July
|)instaad Of tbs 4th, for tso req sons; lone o.
Iisas bccalse Hr. Young fifst entered the
Valley. and the other vas, they NO little
81 no bread -four TO make akes, &c. |, u. At
earl and not wishing to celebrate on emp
ty stoInschs, they postponed It till their
Iharyest came In. Weare only able to sketch
| the news Of this week for want Of time aud
space, but we intend to pour out the whole
Apod in our next number The Valley has
| been placeof general deposit for property,
goods, &C., by Californians. When theys
saw a few bags and kegs of gold dust that
had been gathered and brought in by our
boys, il made them completely enthusiastic.
Pack mules and horses that were worth %
or thirty dollars in ordinary times, would
readily bring two hundred dollars in the
most valuable property at the loves! prices.
Goods and other property were daily offered
ut auction in all parts of the city. For
light Yankee wagon, sometimes three or
four great heavy ones would be offered in
exchange, andsa yoke Of oxen thrown in at
that.
Common 1slnrsa. r-rrirg suTu fTom Eve
ITO ten cents yard by the bolt. The best
Of spades and shoves for so cents EACH
Vests, that cost in St. Louis $3.50 each,
were sold at Salt Lake for 37A cents. Full
chests of joner's tools, that would $50 in
the East, were sold st that place for $25.
Indeed, almost every article except sugar,
| is selling on an average Of so per cent be-
| Would it not be grand speculation for
Kanesvil'e and ST. Joseph to 60 to the Salt
Lake to lay in their stocks of goods! They
can buy plenty of wagons there for less than
one half what the iron costs in St. Louis,
and any number Of cattle there to hanl them
back. This kind of operation has put the
people on their legs, in the valley, but when
! the alcohol was brought forward and sold it
| ing had any for couple of years or SO, and
lheing rather exhausted by digging gold all
1 the time, they were not wise to hazard d
contest with SO potent an enemy mora to be
Threaded than the mobs of Illinois.
II la hn mora thai