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Show 210 TEAVELS AND ADVENTUEES IN THE FAE WEST. 18th.-The whole party left this morning at ten o'clock, for Cedar City, Coal Creek ; we arrived there at two o'clock-eighteen miles to the south of Parowan. Mr. Henry Lunt, a well informed, and generous hearted Englishman, was, it is supposed, the first white man who ever entered this valley, or the river of the Great Basin. With twenty-two men he arrived at the present site of the city, two years and a half ago to form a settlement. Cedar City now contains one thousand inhabitants, who possess fifteen hundred head of cattle, besides a large number of horses, mules, and sheep. The city is 'half a mile square, and completely surrounded by an adobe wall twelve feet high, six feet at the base to two and a half at the top; the building of the wall was attended by a great deal of labor; the persevering industry of these people is unsurpassed. A temple block is in the centre of the city, covering twenty acres of ground, the building lots are each twenty rods by four rods. Twenty miles to the eastward of Parowan, there is a fresh water lake, formed by a stream from the Warsatch Mountains, which is filled with salmon trout; out of this lake comes the Seveir River, which flows north into the Seveir Lake. Immediately in the vicinity of the city, is an extensive bituminous coal mine. Iron ore of superior quality, eighty per cent, pure iron, is found in great quantities; four miles from the city are two mountains of solid ore. Iron works are in successful operation, all the railroad iron necessary to complete a road from there to San Bernandino, can be procured here. |
