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Show PAE0WAN. 209 CHAPTER XXXH. Description of Parowan-Cedar City-Fish Lake-Iron Ore-Bituminous Coal-Future Destiny of Cedar City-Henry Lunt-Affecting Incidents-Portrait of a dead Child- A Mother's Gratitude-Harmony City-Parley Pratt-Piede Indians-Personal Privations of Mormons-Bid Adieu to Gov. Young-Letter of Introduction to President of San Bernandino. i PAROWAN is situated immediately under a very high range of irregular, rugged mountains, fringed with timber. A fine stream of water runs through the city, which is sixty rods square, surrounded with a wall, six feet at the base, and tapering upwards to two and a half feet, the wall is twelve feet high, and extends back from the town six miles. " The valley of the Parowan, or Little Salt Lake Valley, is about sixty miles east of the meadows of Santa Clara, between 37° and 38° of north latitude, and between 113° and 114° west longitude; elevation above the sea, five thousand feet." (Fremont's letter.) It contains one hundred families, five hundred head of cattle, one hundred and fifty horses and mules, and three hundred sheep. Provisions of all kinds, are very scarce and high; their supplies are procured either from Salt Lake City, three hundred miles north, or San Bernandino, five hundred miles over the deserts to the south. C. V. L. Smith is president; Lewis, bishop; John Steele, mayor. |
