Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (City of Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1853-1857, 1855-08-14
Correspondence Of the St. Louis Rep.
Latest from Utah.

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GRKAr SALr LAKE CRY, May 81, 1855.
Mr.. EDIroR have just returned from q
verv Interesting tour through the southern set
Elements of Utah, In company with Gov.
Young and suite, and was much surprised
and grsti6e6 to see so great an advancement
IN improvements and in the cultivation Of
tha so:l | was surprised 20 d SO great an
srsa Of arabic land in the mountainous re-
gion.
Pete VALLEY, which vss recently discovered,
and found it composed Of three layers of two
anu = half. three and half, aud Eve feet,
oDs Ado &c the other, and bat thin layer Of
rork between each. Ii is clean bituminous
coal Of an excellent quality, and burns freely,
"a we ascertained by making trial on the
ground. 1t lays in the mountain az an angie
Of about FIVE or six degrees, is very accessi-
bic and abundant
The State House at Fillmore, the present
aass of government, is built OF red granite,
il nearly completed, and presents fac ap-
pearance.
Our party was increased By the addition
Of Manoche. chief OF the Pahyante Indians,
With twelve warriors, who accompanied US
into Iron county to meet the southern tribes
and elect thrce sub-ehiets, which was duly
effected, and they returned with US 10 their
settlement on Corn Greek, twelve miles south
of Fillmsre where they have farm which
they cultivate.
Wa creased the Sewer River over recent
" erected but very unsubstantial bridge,
which does no look as though it would with
sand heavy fresheS.
About thirty-6ve miles south OF Fillmore,
and one mile from the road, / visited sui
nbnr bed which IL evidently the crater Of ar
sxt;n3uisheL volcano. The sulphur, which
very rich. forms q crust OF half mile in
c;rcun ference, varies in depth, and beneath
il the earth 10 hollow or like hoDeycOmb,
an the footsteps of my horse plainly indiea-
ted. By placing the ear over any Of the aper-
sures in the crust, and of which there are
saveral. the sound Of catArscts is distinct
heard from great derth. Above this bed
thsre 10 beautiful mAgnesia spring, and be-
low it, another Of sulphur and nagnesis
c,,mbined. In Salt Greek Canon there Is q
MOUNTAIN OF rock salt of excellent quality
Seven miles from Fillmore stands conspicu
npsiy Cindar Rock, six miles long, and com.
posed exclusively of volcanic cinders, upor
which no vsgtati on exists.
visited the iron works Of Cedar City, II
Iron county, and found the furnace in blast
Coal Of a superior quality, and iron ore con.
tanning seventy five per cent of pure metal
are found in abundance upon the surface
of the ground. They arc now making cast
ings with cold air, which viii soon be super
seeded py hot air, as all the requisite pipes
have been cast.
Grasshop have been very destruetiv'
TO the wheat throughout the vallies, ant
many farmers are reploughing their fields Il
plant potatoes and corn.
Cattle raising is carried on here very prof
;sablv and to a great extent, as it is not ne
cesssry to feed them. The raising of sheer
il also attended To, and they are increasing
in numbers very fast much care has to D.
taken of them in the winter to protect then
from the cola anu numberfess wolves that III
Test this region.
The enterprise, ministry and perseverance,
OF these people are proverbial. In all my
extensive wanderings over the world, have
certainly never encountered communlt,
who possessed thess qualities 10 univ ersaily
and the progress they have made in sonvert
ing these deserts into ''smling fieds'' with
in 80 short period, is astonishing to strang
er and highly prsise~'ofthy sndi cannosclos'
this communities ION without bearing my tes
smony to the peaceable and law. abiding feel
inx t6.t uniireraaliy prevails anonf -
a. Great injustice hes been apne y req
in withholding fEoA NE sektlNgs a~. TINS yer
rtory tiss ,eeiviligss' Srank<e 70 ot9eras AND
sxssy Iibsrd minded man will think 30.