New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-13

with wheat The judges and the taplah M NJ
held conversation with him. In answer 10 '",.n no
questions he sand he had u lodges and ABOUT ~
warriors. They impressed on him the fact he lhu't
look 10 the Superintendent for his presents, anh
cease 10 levy black mail on American travellers 10
California. over the southern road. lie haae h
speech AT last in which he expressed h' VIM :
ue.. 10 be- friendly to Anne ricans" 50 long as they
were friendly to him; but said he. want you "
understand that if they use blackguard taiA 10 ",
/ can talk as much Ike blacSguard d, an! ~
them. His remarks were translated by SiOflnoi
Interpreter who seemed desrOus 10 nahe III 'oei
ING if he could Indeed there good reason 10
believe that Canosh had been induced to BRING ms
warriors up at the instiGaton of Mormons' lhti
had abandoned their position anc crowded ar"'nu
us during the talk aud now besal shahln2 u
hands from which il was Impossible L" es'aPV;
Each man seemed determined 10 express MS good
Will by the length of his shake and the tighIness oi
his saieeze. Canosh then followed Us INTO the
legislative Hail. with an Indian Interpreter. "here
he ate four melons and backguarded all me '1I
Chiefs with whom he was on bad terms. lie loIu
Ms that be was baptized Mormon, aud asked NJ
to tell the Superintendent To send him wa'ch'
two wagons and set of harness, some furniture
and some wOrkmen TO build him an abode house
that he might live like white man. in BRET lie
was amusingly unreasonable in his requests
There were no religious services IN the town
during the dav. In the afternoon the camp was
crowded with bows and men bringing vegetables.
milk eggs and butter Ia sell. or attracted by cur,
osity. One of our visitors was an old man named
Eldridee. from North Carolina. He was mem-
Der of the Legislature during the year in which 1t
sat at Fillmore and made speech one day against
the system of theOcracy which he declared that
Brigham was blishing. " II you unite Church
and State, said he, they will both go to hell.
lie was possessed OF a comfortable property at the
time but began from that very moment to run
down in the world until now he is almost wholly
destitute; but be remains as Jealous a Mormon as
ever. and recounted with great feryor his mission
airy experiences in the Southern States. lie sald
that John &. Calhoun once entertained him at ms
house and permitted him 10 hold q meeting on hrs
plantation Being encouraged, the old fellow stated
that he was phrenologst, and proceeded 10 examine
our bumps with a view 10 our adaptation 10 Nor
monism. He pronounced me incapable of ever
becoming convert on account OF lack oi ven
eratiOn
We left Fillmore on Monday noon, but travelled
so slowly on account of the condition of the drT.
COON horses that we did not reach Nephi. 40 miles
distant, until Thursday After passing Cedar
Springs throughout the entire distance there Is not
an inhabtant Our camp AT Nephi was just outside
the town corral III which guard is kept every night
TO protect the stock from Indian depredatlons The
only circumstances worth noticing during our stay
there were the sight of Church express running
with mail bags which were surely once the property
of the United States; and that OF an Indian sqnaw
and q white woman, both wives of one man. sitting
side by side on Il fence rail in front OF his house.
The next day (Sept 3), we drove to Payson,
near the southeastern shore of Lake Utah. The
town was once named Pet-tetc-nete, after the chief
of the band of Utahs who are within the immediate
superintendent OF DR.. Hurt in its vicinity. On the
way passed through the settlement OF Summit
Creek with about 400 inhabitants, i miles from
Nephi, beautifully situated on clear, swift, and
wooded brook, and overlooking most OF Lake Utah
and the towns along its eastern shore. In the
principal street OF the village women were busy
sitting out the seeds from wild flax. Down the
slope from the town to the bottom land along the
lake the road was bounded on the west by mud
wall several miles in length: on the east 1t skirted
the mountains. Behind the wall were broad fields
of wheat flax, Chinese sugar-canc and sunfowers,
which last are raised for the sake of the oil which
is extracted from their seed. We had entered now
on the most fertile portion of the Mormon settle
ments Between the mountains, which form
semi-circe around the eastern border of Lake Utab
and the shore of the lake. there is strip Of bottom
land varying in width from two to nEc miles. Ii
is we'll watered by creeks flowing down from the
caiions among which are the Spanish Fork and the
Provo or TimpanOgas-thc latter u considerable
stream having nearly half the volume of the Jordan
at full wafer Along the edge of this broad bottom
are situated PaysOn with about 800 inhabitants,
Spanish Fork settlement with ZOO. Springyillc with
1900 Provo with 4,5O0; then on the rising ground
above Provo Bench, Battle Creek and American
Fork Settlements, each little larger than the village
at Summit Greek: and finally ON the north Ofthe lake
Lehi with about 200. The estimate which the
Mormons make Of the population of these towns is
about % per cent greater than my own. There are
also one two villages, dependencies OF one or the
other of these towns, with a population of 200 or
300 On the western border Of the lake there is
not single settlement. The mountains slope down
nearly to the shore, leaving 10 bottom land suscep-
tbe OF cultivation.
The broad "State" road from Salt Lake City TO
Fillmore runs through all the towns | have named.
skirting the base of the mountains IN lis entire
course around the lake These mountains are
broken by numerous canOns. along the sides of
which there is an ample growth of pines. frs and
cedars. Their SUBMITS are huge masses of rock
or ples oi glittering sand, and are streaked with
deep rayincS in which the snow hlgers throughout
all the Summer The average altitude OF these
mountains must be- between 1900 and 10 600 feet.
The scenery of the valley of Lake Utah is among
the most beautiful in the whole Territory. \ great
part of the bottom land has been redeemed is well
fenced, thoroughly irrigated, and cultivated with
care. The rest of il Is divided into herd grounds
tor the stock of the various towns. Between Pay
son and the Spanish Fork settlement is u Reserya-
tion of about 1900 acres on which l. situated
Dr. Hurts Indian Farm.
In Payson relics Of the emigration 10 the South
were still ,sible-rude board shanties wick-ee-ups
thatchcd with straw, mud huts, log cabins. aud
bowers of willow branches covered with wagon
sheets. The most common quarters of the emf
grants. however, appeared To have been madc by
removing a wagon body from its wheels. placing il
on the ground and building in front of il an sroor
of ccdars or willows. Around some of these habi-
tation, were scattered three or four bcdstcads in
the open air. In fact, two.thirds of the furniture