Letter from Joseph Horne, 10 April 1858
Heberville Washington County
Dear Brother
I sit down to write a few lines to
you, hopeing that they will find your & your ^family^ all in the
enjoyment of good health. we had a plesant journey to
this place, and arived all in good health. we did not find the
place spoken of By Br J D Lee at the Mouth of the Clarry river,
to be very convenient to make a farm, on account of the Banks
of the river being so high above the water, but By examining
the river below the forks I concluded to make a farm at
our present Location, which is about one mile south of the
forks. it is on the riove^i^rgin which is a large stream suposed to
be nearly as large as the Jorden. its Bottoms are fertile and form
half a mile to a mile in width. there is not much grass it is Cheifly covered
with Brush. there is plenty of Building Rock within one mile of our
camp, and an abundance of Lime stone about four miles ^from^ here. there is
no timber in this valley excpt a few scatering cottonwoods. there is a mountain
south of here suposed to be from fifteen to twenty miles distant, that
is covered with timber. the Indians say it is Pine. I have sent a man with
an Indian to day to asertain the paticulars relative to the timber roads.
while drying out our water ditch yesterday we found a peice of stone
coal. there may be coal in the mountain near by but we have not had
time to explore any since we came here yet. we have built a large dam
of Rock Brush & gravell. it is about seventy feet long & from ten to fifteen high
