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Show IRON COUNTY ----Early Descriptions Of .. 1851 Brigham Young. "President Young gave a glowing description of the different vallies he hadapassed through also Iron Co. which abounds with extensive mines of Iron ore of the best quality. Good stone coal beds which appear extensive . . . • /The Pavant/ valley 100 miles this side is a very large good place with extensive range plenty of farming land Father and Bishop Anson Call have been appointed to take a company there this fall He thinks this valley capable of supporting at least a million souls All the valleys this side are capable fo cultivation with plenty water wood and grass He wants the people to settle these valleys as soon as possible and not keep hived up here in town. Ii Diary of Lorenzo Brown 1851 Parley P. Pratt Diary. Pavant Valley. "Here are resources for farming, stock raising, fuel, etc., in sight of our present encampment, probably more than sufficient to sustain the present population of Rhode Island; and yet, not a domestic animal, except those of the passing traveller or a human being, save the occasional savage in his wanderings, occupies any portion of the wide domain. quoted in Richard H. Jackson "Utah's Harsh Lands, Hearth of Greatness," Utah Historical Quarterly, Winter, 1981k Volume 49 No.1. |
