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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 97 o'clock p. m. they arrived in Ogden. Before leav-ing Limhi the colony cached their wheat, about two thousand bushels, in different places. This ended the first mission to colonize the great Northwest to introduce the system of irriga-tion and endeavor to civilize the aborigines, after two years and nine months most incessant labor, toil and sacrifices. It cost three lives of colonists, and five others were wounded. It also cost them hun-dreds of thousands of dollars in time, horses, cattle, crops and other property. THE SALMON RIVER MISSION ABANDONED. Since the fort was vacated the land fell into other hands, and a government reservation was es-tablished a little distance above this point, and now appears on the maps as " Fort Limhi " and " Limhi Valley Indian Reservation." The names of Crandle Dunn and Amos Wright of Box Elder Co., and James Hill of Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, have been inadvertently omitted from the body of this report. They should be in as they were in the Salmon Eiver Mission. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. An account of an expedition that was sent out from Utah by Governor Young to relieve a colony of settlers that had located on Salmon River, Ore-gon: In 1855 President Brigham Young and the lead-ers of the Church called a company of men with their families to go North into Oregon and explore the country and establish a settlement to open up the country for other settlers. This company crossed the mountains to Snake river and followed the river up |