The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1854-05-20
A new Community and unknown Race.

Accounts nave recently aPpc"'.o III
the papers in relation to peculiar race,
entirely unknown to the civilized world
residing on the banks OF the CHA The
following description Is from the pen o'
the San Francisco correspondent Of the
Philadelphia Inquirer:
ut appears that this community OF
human beings are now living, ana prop
ably have lived for ages, insulated from
the rest of mankind, far out through the
desert, and have no communication scarce
Iy with the rest of their fellow creatures.
Far away beyond the South Pass, on the
head waters OF the CHA river, lives John
Brldgers, a trapper OF the plains ana
mountains for more than 40 years, ana
whose veraci,y cannot be questioned ny
any one acquainted with him, 1t Is ad-
mitted by ali ,rappers who new nm, ''la'
he is better acquainted than any iivlng
man with the intrcacles of the hills and
the streams that lose themselves III the
great Basins. While trapping on the
tributaries of the Colorado, an indian
offered to guide him Mr.. Bfldger) and
q party to people living III the desert
with whom they could barter. He rep
resented them as living g. eat way OIL
and that they were entirely unknown 70
the whites. The proposition was aceeaea
to, and after providing themselves win
dried meats and water, they struck right
into the hear, of that Great Desert, where
. no white man had ever before tfoddeh
perhaps, since, and which the hardy
|, mountaineers will only venture to skirt
After five days travel, the party arrived
! at three mountains or buttes, rising II
! grandeur in tha, solitary waste. These
$ Mountains were covered with A diversity
9 of forest and fruit trees and flowers, al
$ in magnificent bloom, and which appear
r cd Ike some extensive basis IN mighty
/. desert Streams oi the purest water RIP
G pied down the declivities Of these noun
d tains, and meanaered around their bas
y and through the yallies in crystalline beau
# ty. Birds warblea their melliluous note
$ from myriad branches ot trees, and Ia
: atmosphere was redolent and odoriierop
with herbs and flowers. Here was
l. numerous agricultural people, surrounde
r, with waving fields Of corn and protus,o
l. of vegetables They knew nothing {
5, fire arms, using only the bow and arrow
n And for mules after miles clrcllng thos
j, buites, were adobe houses two and thre
n stories high. Mr.. Bridger was not a
d lowed to enter any OF their towns {
- houses, aud after remaining three day
5, only bartcring scarlet cloth and iron Il
10 their furs, he left them-INt however, b.
fore being given to understand that the
S, had 40 communication with any Peep
to beyond their desert homes. These al
n supposed 70 be the same race ot poop
d. who once inhabited the hanks OF the GI
st and the Colorado, and left those mont
le ments Of wonder. ,he Cases Gra7de
er which So deeply attracted the followers
p, Fremont and Doniphan, and tIlen yal
ad lshed as dream Their diote hohs
tic attes, the fact Ny informant says III
ed months after the conversation he hi
On with Mr.. Bridger upon TINS subject,
ed had another with Mr.. Papiu, th. Age
If. OF the American Fur Company. I
m. told him hat another of tie party N
no Walk II, the mounanser, after vic
.s, one 0! tue mountain passes j. name
II and vino i. known to be a uaA ii tIpi
ad had gwen hun the same description
he those isolated people and FROM these u
n: reliable sources there can be no quest
ng ot tire ruth OF Tie Story. Tie su#Jeet
md On ct deep Htcttsl as ~rA to IL, AN