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Show UJAL5AA • • • ^(P^A-TTM Ay Ac ' _, y«v / Tuesday, Oct. 15. The day was warm in GA.l.City. The following is from the Aistory of Briarham Youn.g, The telegraphic dispatch .rora the East which came in by mail bo day from "Outer Station at Pacific Springs" brought the following paragraph dated Washington, Oct. 9th; "Brigham Young has lost Uintah Valley, one of the most fertile in Utah, after haveing announced his intention to se•'t tle A with the Saints. The President, by an order dated October, has directed a*fclIndian reservation to be made there." On Sunday Aug. 25. a company of .about £00 efficient men "'ere called to go and make a settlement in the Unitah Valley; which had always been represented the finest valley in the Territory. Surveyor General Fox and several pioneers were sent a head to explore the country, and in a week after a few road makers followed after them, and the bulk of the company made preparations to Allow. Soon an express arrived from the explore^ stating that the Valley had been misrepresented, anyd was not adapted to sustain large settlements; which statement was confirmed by the party on their return. On receiving the express President Young had it read to the meeting in the Bowery, when he publicly announced the abandonment of the project. Mr. Martin, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory, on hearing of the proposed enterprise immediately if] wrote to the commisioner of Indian Affairs informing him of the same and recommending the setting apart of the valley and vicinity for an Indian reservation, in order to prevent the I.Iormohs from settling there. The paragraph quoted above shows that President Lincoln has acted on the recommendation of Mr. liar tin, with the expectation of breaking up a newly formed settlement of 200 or 500 families, ?.nd probably raising a quarrel between the Government and the "-Mormons" It is doubtful whether there will be any effort made A Locate the Indians there, but the course of the Governmentwill enable the Agents to pocket a few thousand dollay sore and debauch one Indian Squaws, while the Indians will consequently forage on our settlements, as they have always.done. At last Conference it was resolved to reinforce the settlement in the cotton county on the Rio Virgen and the Santa Clara V7ith a-bout ECO families. The hand of the Lord is manifest in the Unitah |
