The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-20
SEWER COUNTY.
A Description of Its Towns and
Good Points.
GLENWooD, SEWER COUNTY,
UTAH, May 10, 1851.

u GLENWooD, SEWER COUNTY,
e UTAH, May 10, 1850.
g Editors Herald:
I forward you few items in rels
ton to the names, etc., of places Il
r the Sewer Valley: We Start from
3 Chicken Creek, or Juab station. ant
1 cross a spur of the mountain i'll goinl
south, and we find ourselves in thu
, Sewer Valley; this part is in Sanpets
! County. About fifteen miles iron
the summit We arrive at thriving
little town called Warm Creek oil
about fifty families. This place
takes its name from the circumstance
OF the warm springs above the town,
which they use for irrigsting their
land. The water is good to drink
when cold.
Six miles further south is GunnisoDr
named after Lieut.. Gunnison who,
with his whole command, was mas.
sacred in the year IS, on the site
OF this city or town; this place, which
is also in Saupete County. has about
!. 900 inhabitants ~ The people are
putting in a crop OF Amber sugar
cane this season. Seven miles fur
Their on is the place called Willow
Greek, and seven or eight miles still
further We come to Sslins, small
town given TO the manufacture OF
salt-hence it's name. There are ex-
tensive beds OF rock salt in the noun
tains east of This place, and also
east OF Willow Creek. A consider
able amount of this salt is qusrried
out by the inhabitants, and wagoned
off to Frisco, Phoebe, Bullion and to
Leeds. These places are on the east
side of the valley. On the west side
are number ofrsnches, and email
town of forty or fifty families, called
Redmount or RedmouDd, from
the fact of a large, red rocky
mound in the valley close by.
Still further south, on the same side
Of the river, are TWO little burgs
known as Willow Bend and Vermil-
lion or Never Sweat. From Salina,
fifteen miles up the valley, on the
east side, we come TO GlenWood, a
town of about 100 families, and con-
tains q large freestone building, in
which is kept the cooperate store.
On the southeast of the town is a
spring lake of sparkling soft water,
containing no lime or other mineral
carbonates. The water tumbles
down about 100 feet, over a series of
little cataracts. On the south rises
the Glen Mountain, about II, 900 feet
high. On the summit is found a
magnificent park or valley, which is
densely covered with groves of spruce,
white pine, etc., and is one of the
finest views in the mountains. There is
a lake in this valley and several
streams take their rise from this
park. We have q Touring mill here,
owned by Mr.. Joseph L. Wall, and
another is being put up by coopera-
tive company. There is also card
ing machine, and machine ard fur
niture shop. but not in operation
now.
Directly west across the valley is
Richfeld. the capital OF Sewer
County, and takes lis name from the
fertility of its fields, which, l Was
told, produced seyenty-fye bushels OF
wheat per acre when the ground was
new. This town has about 1000 in
habitants, several good schoolhouses,
a large Westinghouse and a grist
mill, which can but seldom run, on
account of the water being required
for irriga!ing purposes; the people go
to Monroe and GlenWood for grinding.
There are three stores in the place.
Six miles south is Elsimore, named
after that famous place in Denmark;
the town has one cooperative store
and q good rock school and meeting
house; has about 100 families; and
they are putting up a grist mill be-
low the town; they get their irrigating
waite: from the Sewer. Seven miles
south is situated Joseph City,
named after the late Joseph a. Young,
eldest son of the late President
Brigham Young. Joseph a. presided
over the Sewer county stake before
his death. This town has about forty
houses, and some good farming land.
Marysvale is up the river, in nook
in the mountains about fifteen milgs;
the mines in the last named place are
said to be played out, and mining
operations suspended.
Southeast from Elainore il found
the town of Monroe, named after
President Monroe, (oi Monroe doc
trine" notoriety.) This is prosper.
Gus little town Of about 800 or 900
inhabitants; has two stores, besides
the coop lately burned down, one
grisE mill. meeting and school
house,, etc.
North, down The river, is string
ofranches and burgs, known as Cen.
trail, Arrabells, etc., and the whole
is known as InVarury ~, after
place of that name in Scotland. East,
and beyond the Glen Mountain, is
Grass Valley, which contains about
800 or 400 inhebitsnts. They farm q
little, but have had their crops frozen
in the fall almost every year. There
is an abundance of grass in the val
ley and on the mountain sides, max
ing it one Of the best grazing districts
in the country. And if the people
would give their full attention to
stock raising and dairying they would
have much better success than in
farming; growing lucerne, red-top,
Timothy, and probably oats and
barley, instead of wheat, corn
and potatoes. Some seasons
stock live out. with but little feedin g
in the severest OF the winters. The
Grass Valley waters empty into the
Sewer.
The Sewer comes from the River
OF the Basin" through Upper Sewer
Valley which is known as Panguisb,
meaning fish, in the Ute dialect.
Panguish is noted for an abundance
OF fine timber, fish, stock-raising and
pottery manufacture. The place is
about eighty miles south of Rlch6eld;
il is not over free from irosts, and the
growing of small grain is not safe
investment. The Sewer is said 10 take
its name from a French mountaineer
or trapper of this name Tor Xevier),
who made this valley his headquarters
in days gone by. This river takes a
turn to the west when it gets by
Jusb station and opens out into
lake and sinks west OF Beaver.
The celebrated Fish Lake is one of