Letter to Seth Millington Blair, 19 February 1863
G. S. L. City
Maj S. M. Blair
Dear Sir
We just
received your letter of Feb 15 Brother
Smith having gone to Provo I take the
liberty of answering it. We received your
communication concerning the Bear River
Battle & feel to thank you for its contents
In reply to your remarks concerning
the Colorado country I will say that we
have had a visit of late from Jacob
Hamblin by accompanied by three of
the Moquis Nation, the visit was an
interesting one to us. His account is sumthing
as follows. He left St George with 24 men, 50
Hors[em]en travelled 80 miles to the Colorado, found
a good crossing. Had no guide, took a Dividing
ridge traveled 7 days through a heavy body
of timber, mostly pine, some ceder & oak, a
plenty of deer antelope & Turkies any amount of
grass, from the top of a high rock could see a
large vally, appearane of water & grass, arrived at the
