The Green Forest tribune., 1911-10-27

Tie, UOG WOOu9u, ZO,UlO acres. dlue of farms, including land, fences and buildings, $515,647 value of farming implements and machinery, $49, ,540; value of live stock on farms, $270, ,484; estimated value of all farm productions 1879, $255, ,816. The aggregate value of real estate in the county in 1880 was $326, SIS; personal property, $335, ,631; total, $662, 506; In 1883, real estate, $633, 323, personal property, $722, ,482, total, $1, 354, 805.
 MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE.
 In the spring of 1857 an emigrant train was organized in Northwestern Arkansas, and principally in Carroll County, by Capt. Alexander Fancher, and in due time set out for the journey across the plains and the Rocky Moun- tains to California. Capt Fancher was a native Of Tennessee; he married in Cumberland County H., and settled on Osage. He had made two overland journeys to California, and was well qualified to conduct them thither. His train consisted of about forty wagons, several carriages in which some of the ladies rode, nearly l, 1000 head of cattle, several hundred horses, including a stallion, valued at $2,000, and was said to have been the finest that crossed the plains in 1857. There were forty or fifty men. The entire company was in comfortable circumstances they had with them valuables and money which, with the property referred to, has been estimated at S70,000.
 The train left Arkansas in the spring of 1857, passed through Kansas and Colorado by the accustomed route, and reached Salt Lake City in August. From here "the southern route, 7" through Provo, Nephi, Fillmore and Cedar City, was taken, and at the last named point the party reached the Spanish trail, their road to Southern California. They had not traversed the favored land of the Saints many days before it became apparent that they were regarded with suspicion and aversion. It was in vain that supplies of food and forage were negotiated for; they were "fliendless as in voiceless desert" The Federal power was openly defed in Utah, and armed troops were on the march toward it's borders. Brigham Young openly de- clared that his protection would be withdrawn from emigrants passing through the Territory, and, under combination of the most unfavorable circumstances, Capt. Fancher and his party slowly approached the melan- choly termination of their journey They crossed the Great Basin; they climbed up the southern rim, and on this border of Mornonism they stopped for a few days, to let their cattle reve in the rank, coarse mountain grass, be- fore they went on the Ninety Mile Desert
 The location of the Mountain Mead ows, their stopping place, is in the southwestern corner. of Utah, in the present county of Washington, about eight miles south of the village of Pinto. The place is a pass, sometimes called valley, about five miles in length and one in width, but running to rather narrow point at the southwest end. At about it's center, lengthwise, is the divide" between the basin and the Pacific slope, the ascents being very gradual, and at each end is large spring. At the eastern spring was the house and corral of Jacob Hamlin, Mormon sub-agent foEthe Pah Utes, who, with some assistance, all Mor- mons, was pasturing cattle on the meadows. The train passed his place on the 3rd of. September, and encamp- ed at the western spring on the 4th. This spring, which is large one, is in the southern end of the narrow part. The bank rises from it to a height of about eight feet, and from it's top there reaches level stretch of some 200 1 yards, upon which the emigrants en- camped.
 The first attack occurred on Monday morning, September ', 1857, while the party were at breakfast. A volley was fired from a gully through which the