The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-10-06
THE MoRMoNs-THEIR PRO.
POSED EMIGRA ALTON. b .

As our readers may not be acquaint.
ed with some Of the following items, We
lgiyc the whole matter. just as ii b
published in The San Francisco Herald, Il
Sept 9th! ..r. "A; BY 5s. .':.- !
THE people Of California entertained
a hope, sometime age, that the MormOE
were about to en1igrate, and parties, resi-.
tEdcnts of this city, undertook q yisitto
Brigham Young, fer the purpose Of per.
Esuading him To- accept broad laudsinGeR.
trail America, the repnted property d
I George Law, of New York, as q consid.
Grafton for the lands and improyementsd
the Mormonsin Utah. Nothing, hover.
Ter, resulted from the negotiation The
/ Latter Day Saints sppaan.ta haua simply
Laughed at the propositions submitted 70
them, We find in the Boston 7fapdg
the following statement from which, il
would appear. the project has not been
entirely abandoned: ..I>. (. ::s I.
.tsWe stated q few days since; The
authority Of the New York Times, that
Capt, Walter M. Gibson WHOSE roman.
tic history in connection with his trarek
lin and exploration Of the Eastern Arch
ipelago, followed by persecution and i'm
prisonment at the hands Of the Dutch
authorities, must be familiar to mangOf
our readers had in contemplation d plan
for the entire removal Of the Mormon
community TO one Of the large East India
Islands. Yesterday we were favored with
Ia visit from Capt. Gibson, who has fur
nished us with some interesting facts in n
/ gard to the proposed emigration.
I. "fCaptain Gibson states that be sub
tmitted his plan Of removal to DR. Bernbi
i.seI, the Mormon delegate at Washington
some three years since. DIR. BGrnhiselre'
ferred the matter 70 Brigham Young, and
the feelings Of the Mormons, weariedHith
their continual difficulties, appeared tohe
that IL they could obtain pay for Their
improvements in Utah they would be
willing to emigrate in body President
Buchanan was then applied to, the favor
ers Of the project urging that il woud Be
much better to spend few hundred thOu:
sand dollars In the purchase Of the prop
ferty at Salt Lake than to throw away
millions in the support Of the army g.
toned in that distant region. NJ, CID
son received o reply frem Gen. Cas-, u
substance that the Executive could not
entertain any such proposition, holding
that the duty of the Government CONSIST.
ed in. maintaining peace and ensnFlns .
due enforcement of the law. This was
about the time that the Commissioners
were sent on by the President when
collision between the MCTmOns and sae
troops was quite imminent, /
!" But Capt, Gibson does not aPpeai.!~
be disposed TO abandon the scheme 20
has consulted with a number Of ieaalps
men in Washington and is sangulnsg !,
ultimate success by means Of an Az ,a.. u
Congress, In the msantime an exPeaIsSS. y.
Of about three hundred .Mormons, lea y
| Capt, Gibson, will start on an explotaS
tour, probably to the Island o. New ~.
Hea, which possesses an ample terr.el9
is heavily timbered, and has other Ie.u,a'
ties for the support Of q Large Popal,,,.'Is%s
| II the report Of the company sheula q
favorable, the main body may be 49, y -.
to emigrate across the waters Of Tue - =.
eiGc, should means lie furnished 70 Ien H.
neFate them for the possessions they "a. ~
behind. We can see no objection . - -
proposition, and il is certainly sne'f
way Of setting q Troublesome qIles.oMI, W,
hACapt. Gibson states that the No,
mons in Utah now number about ~
hundred and twenty thousand The army Y
Of the United States stationed there - -
dwindled down to few cemPalles, ~, ~
his way 10 the States, Capt Gibson ,I II,
hand cart trains of Mormons making S aSe
way to Utah, TO the number Of about !, \. ssi (
aud the extent Of emigration tins yss nm
estimated at about four thousa ma. ~
emigrants were in good condition. -, =,
seemed to be well supplied win NV y
cessaries Of liie.'P wa a.l5 ~ - :.