Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-13
A LETTER FROM "PHGNIx."
lettings on Passing Events in Etah
and Nevada.


/ icofre.Hoad.nee OF the pIsERk- Skws.]
4 Eighteen mile. from Parowan i.
5 found the furnishing city Of Cedar
famous for its sheep industries and
8 the valuable mineral and coal de.
: posits in the vicinity. About fif.
| teen thousand dollars worth OF
: wool ha. been shipped north this
: fall, and The city contains evidences
; Of the thrift and industry o. its peo-
pie.
n Cedar City Cemetery il ci..e to
the road. but well protected by a
good rock wall. which has been
briit by skilled masors. Work has
Been resumed on the Tabernacle.
J which is one Of the best aud most
commodious buildings in Southern
Utah.
The storekeepers are KEEP, quite
busy by their numerous customers
and there are sufficient mercantile.
establishments to satisfy the wants
Of all aud to suit the most fastidi.
Gus.
| The Stake Academy is located
mere, well attended. aud ably con-
ducted by PRINCIPAL NJ. n. Daley.
Pinto is little settlement nearly
thirty miles from Cedar and con.
tains about 'welvs families.
The irfegularity Of the streets and
dwellings confirms the state
ment once made by Brother Mus
ser, thst it had 'stlie appearance OF
having been shot out Of 3 csnnon.-
however, the people have erected
good, substantial dwellings and ap-
pear 10 be well.to-do. The Coon
store has laid IN n good surpis Of
merchandise r.. lie winter, anu
school IS now III session in the coni-
Portable little meeting hou.e.
Six miles distant is the town OF
Ha,nblin, but only = few families
reside there, the floods having caus-
ell many deep WASHES through their |
farming lands.
Hebron is in the extreme North /
west of Washington County, Utah. |
Almost all TIE buildings are built |
sui stantially of brick. An excel. |
lent school Is conducted by Brother I
Bowler, aud the people are doing
moderately well. PrOspev:ors saw |
that the surrounding hills are very
rich with minerals and marble, anu I
WIS Shown 4 number of good |
specimens by Don &. Robbins. who
has made several locations there.
Ate. leaving Hebron | reached /,
the grade Of the L. y. Railway cx- !
tension, which is followed tiil 7
Clover Valley IN Nevada is reached.
This valley Is about four miles long
and one mile wide and Is occupied
by about twelve families. During
the past summer II WAS evidently 4
lively railroad camp.
Meadow Valley, Washington, is
about ninety miles long, but &C.
casiOualiy wideus out, and all the
tiliable land is utilized by ranchers.
IL Is situated west Of Clover Valley
and south Of Panacca- IL was quite
interesting 10 find in such a sparse-
~ settled region a district school in
session, with a comfortably seated
little schoOlhouse and all the modern
incluiing Yaggy's an
a,Omicai and geographical studies.
The town OF Pauacca Is situated
in Meadow Valley and was settled
0y company Of Lsiter-day Saints
in 1864. when what is now Lincoln 4:
County, Nevada, was part Of the
Territory IF Utah. The early set
tiers had many difficulties to con-
tend with, first with the Indians
AMI afterwards with the officials Of
Nevaia who. when the line was
nsde, harlsse1 the people IN
various ways. Pan3cca now
Contains aU0ut fifty families.
presided over by Bishop NJ. Lee.
The water supply is obtained from
springs about one and half miles
from the town. Two stores, the J
cc-op and II. WadsworIh's, cater
fOr the trade Of tine people. The
district school Is held in the meet
ny house aud is well pat.Onizei.
Miss Jennette Findley has cliary. {
II tue grammar department and Mr.
ieorye Whitney Of the primary de- f.,
artment.
Phoebe, the well known mining I,
oWn, is the county seat aud chief
ilace Of business in Lincoln County. =
il j. situated on the north slope Of =
he mountains aud, II one tim-,was !
me Of tine liveiie>t mining CAMPS .
4 the wesi. At present everything; !
: very dull, and gloomy fOrebod- :
ngs are IndulgeG in with regard to :
he c1Iin. winter. The only con- !,
ding though, which the merchants :
.ppear TO possess is in anticipating =
he resumption OF railroad WORK in :
he spring. Various reasons AT. =
ssigued tor the present duilness !
uch as dissatisfied stockholders" ,
change of management" etc. :,
Spring Valley is about fifteen miles :,
roiu Phoebe, and is one OF the most =
.orthern valleys in the county. IL 4
) about four mites long and three =
uarters Of 4 Ilile wide. and j. irri- :.
aIei with water from the numerous -
pTings, from which IT derives Its y
anne. .
Inc valley was first settled In Iso5 :
Y Brstsier William &. Moody, now
( Thatcher, Arizona and others. q,
II one time aboHt twenty families T,
esided there, but only some six
im.lies are located IL the valley .,
Iow. These are chiefly engaged in a
took raising. 4 new rock school
Iouse has recently been built. Il
Fill he quite finished by the spring.
Eagle Valley, about Eve miles
oath, contains about ten families,
nd like Spring Valley was first
ettled 10y LatteT-day Saints =
oOd-sized stream flows down the :
anyon fFom Spring Valley. The :
7ater is utilized ON the farm and =
asture lands, and fruit can be a
a;sed there, as tue climate is miiGef
ban many Of the adjacent valleys.
he school-house j. furnished in I
rimitive style and needs consider
ble repairing.
About a week ago it was quite
.ormy, and the mountains are ROW
lad in sinter's garb.
PHOENIX.
'ANAccA, Lincoln County, New,
December 8, 1890.
Experience With "lIierobe /,