Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-03-27
EtOu. The STATE Journal Of Monday.
A Lister from Judge Crane to his Con-
stituentA
WAsnINGroN, Feb. l8, l859.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, 1858.
Fellow CITIZENS lit affords mt much sat
isfaction to furnish you, in advance, iniOrHa-
ton of Rrcat interest. The COMMITTEE on
Territories have unanimously agreed to report
4 bill forthwith to establish Territorial Cow
ernmcnt out of western Utah, under the name
of Sierra Nevada. 1t will be bounded on the
east 81 the Goose Creek mountains, OH the
west BY the Sierra Nevada or the eastern
line Of California, on the North by the Ore-
ROn line, and on the south by the Colorado
river.
The bill will be pressed through Doth
Houses of Congress by all parties, as having
an immediate connection with the present
military movements against the MormOns. 1t
has been agreed upon that it shall form a part
of the measures designed to compress the lim-
its of the MOrmons in the Great Basin, and to
defeat their efforts to corrupt and confederate
with the Indian tribes who now reside in or
roam through western Utah. For these and
many other reasons no time will be lost to Or
Kanize Q territory over western Utah, that
there NAV be concentrated there a large Gen
tile population, as Q check both upon the In
dams and MOrmons.
The LecOmptOn Constitution will pass both
Houses of Congress in two weeks, at least,
for in each branch there is q clear majority,
and when this is affected, the Mormon war and
our Territory will be the next subject for
grave debate and prompt consideration. Per-
haps by the time you have read this letter,
thus publicly addressed to you, the bill crea-
ting our Territory will have become law.
congratulate you on the success which has at
tended your joint efforts To the Hon. Will
liam Smith, the able member Of Congress
from the Orange Congressional District in
Virginia, (well known in California you and
I owe an everlasting debt Of gratitude for
bringing about this suspicious result
In q few weeks, or soon after our TcrrirOri-
81 bill passes Congress, arrangements will be
made to establish at the head of Goose Creek
and at Stony Point, or Gravelly Ford, on the
HumbOlt, military stations to keep open the
routes between the Great Salt Lake and Ore
gon and California. have no doubt one will
also be established at Cedar Creek or Cedar
City, on the Great Salt Lake and the San Ber-
nardno route, at or near the place where the
Mormons inhumanly caused the Indians to
murder in coid blood, last summer, one HIM
drcd and thirty-One cmigrants to California
from Arkansas These military posts, with
the heavy emigration which will pour into our
Territory, from our side, and this side Of the
continent, in connection with the regular and
volunteer force which will enter the Basin
from our side as active troops against the
Mormons and their Indian allies, will, doubt
not, be sufficient TO defend and protect you all
rs we'll as the overland cmigrantS. Of one
thing you may feel satisfied, that while ] can
not claim to accomplish much for you yet,
whatever I can do | shall spare no time or
labor to
= In connection with this subject, permit me
to say for am not writing to you unadviscdlyl
that you all SOW and plant heavy crops of
grain aud vegetables this spring, for they will
bring ready sale at good cash prices, To- sup
ply the army and nc INDIANS ON EKglr Tcser-
\ SatohS: II Is Important that you know this
and act accordingly, for | have no motive to
deceive you, a. am one Of you and feel a. if
you were bone Of my bone and flesh Of my
flesh. 4 new and nohler IRA is dawning up
on U.S. Let US, therefore. have faith aud per-
severe and all will be we'll if We labor and
faint not
As soon a. shall get my scat, think
ran secure mail routes between Carson Valley
ria Gold Canon, RagtOwr, Sink Of the Hum
boldt, to the Great Salt Lake, and from Hon
cy Lake to the Humboldt, where the two lines
form q junction. As to the establishment Of
other necessary mail routes in the Territory,
have no fears In co necti0n with this sub
ject also, | have great hopes Of having
bill passed to bridge tn deep snow region on
the Sierra N>va'la over the Hon Lake and
Placcrvillc routes, so aS I" KEEP open c"nmn
nicatiOn between our Territory and California
all the year around. The deep SNOW region
On the Placervie route, is. | think, about
eight miles in extent, and on the Honey Lake
route ria Shasta about the same. Neither
will cost over $50, 900 or 100000. These
bridges are very simple in their construction,
and they are now Nsed in Italy for crossing
the Alps in the winter time Every five feet
on either side, strong upright is erected in
the ground, to ascend upward about seven
feet high, on which covering or roofin the
shape Of a is erected. Thus, when the snow
falls to any extent on the roof il soon slides
OF. have no time to explain further.
In conclusion hope the Legislature Of Cal
ifornia will be as liberal and as generous to
you, as Virginia was to Kentucky in her days
Of infancy and trial, and as Georgia was to
Alabama in her days Of infancy and like
them, withdraw her jurisdiction over valleys
lying east of the Sierra Nevada, that they may
all come under our Territorial Government.
California can never do justice to the people
inhabiting these valleys, while We can. She
is the mother of States on the Pacific, and
she should encourage and uphold the young
ones who are clustering around her like chill
dren, and are fOndly attached to her. In the
name Of our Territory, | salute YOU In the
name Of our country, ask that you be good
and dutiful citizens and in the name Of the
Most High, invoke His chiocests blessings
upon you and your childred
Ever your faithful friend,