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Transcript for "William B. Pace papers", 1847-1904

Title: William B. Pace papers, 1847-1904 aaa William B. Pace papers, 1858-1900

Call Number: MS 1658

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G. S. L. City Oct 11th 1866

Wm B. Pace Esq.

Sir,

You are hereby appointed Assistant

Assessor of Int Rev for the 4th Division of the

District of Utah subject to the approval of the Hon

Commissioner of Int Rev at Wahington D. C.

You will qualify and assume the duty of the

Office as soon as practicable and receipt to Geo

W. Bean last Ass[t] Assessor for all Books & Stationery

Pertaining to the office in his hands.

Very Respectfully

? ? Smith

Assessor Dist: of Utah

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Appointment

As Assistant

Assessor in U. S. R

Oct 11, 1866

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United States Internal Revenue,

Assessor's Office, District of Utah,

Great Salt Lake City, June 18th, 1868

To Asst Assessors,

Under instructions from the Commissions

Int Rev. dated May 6th 1868. I am instructed to

rearrange the district in order to decrease the number

Of Asst Assessors and the expenses of collecting

Revenue in this Territory.

I have therefore rearranged the District as

Follows: - The counties of Salt Lake, Davis,

Morgan, Summit & Green River will constitute

the 1st Division L. S. Hills & R. V. Monis Assts

Weber & Box Elder Counties will constitute the 2nd

Div Walter Thompson Assistant.

Cashe & Rich counties will constitute the 3rd Dis

Wm Budge Assistant.

Tooele County the 4th Div Geo W Bryan Asst

Utah, Juab, Wasatch & Sanpete Counties the 5th

Div. Wm B Pace Asst

Millard, Beaver, Sevier & Piute Counties the

6th Div Y. M. Lyman Assistant.

Iron Washington & Kane Counties the 7th Div.

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No.

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AUGUSTS l. CHATLAIN,

ASSESSOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE,

DISTRICT OF UTAH,

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DATED,

Great Salt Lake City, 186

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Subject:

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Spanish Fork

May 18th 1872

Gnl W. B. Pace

I take the present opportunity

of reporting to you on the Indian question since

I saw you. On my return home I found Taly and

To-qner-mana & Antero here awaiting me. I wrote to

Gnl Wells as contemplated by us; recieved answer

that the Indians were not in by my or our invitation

or encouragement and it was hoped no one would

would make any fuss about their visiting their old homes

and that they would put themselves on their best

behavior whilst here. They had a permit from sgt

Critchelon to come in. We had a good talk at my

house, and Judge Bean came in apportunely. They

are friendly and look at the situation sensibly, dont

want to fight any body, not even San Pete, To-qner-

-mana, whose nephew was killed near north bend

Said he had felt bad about it but since he had

heard me and G. W. Bean talk about it he would

throw it all away. And Taly Sayo Williams have

been killed in, and about San Pete, and that

some of the Indians wanted to fight in conseq-

uence, but that he and the chiefs said no, and

they felt to let it pass. I told them that was just what

we have done when the Indians killed our people

rather then go to war and get more killed. After

our first meeting Taby wished me to write to

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Gnl Morrow informing him of his being here and of

his feelings which I did and yesterday received

an answer from the Gnl, written by the pen of his

wife, he being sick and unable to use his hands,

He was friendly to the Indians, no fight in it

but he wishes me to get the Indians to effectively

understand that if they claim any of the government

benefits they must stay on the reservation to secure

them. That if Jos. comes to Payson to like it will

be by the consent of the people, and he renounce

all claim for help from the government and not

be an annoyance to the settlers. Jos Indians are at

Payson but he has not came in yet, Taby-una

and Wanderades have not came in, but soon

will do so. I received a letter from Critchlow

asking me to recommend an interpreter for [scratched out letter]

his agency. I have sugested if thoses who are

think aught to have a say in such matters

have any suggestions to make to please do

so, and in the absence of any, I should

recommend J. M. Thomas (Mat cook) of this

place who no doubt would suit the agt and

who the Indians very much want for the

position. The Indians greatly desire Maj Powell

for agt or Supt a long of Indian affrs, I have writen

by request of Toby a long good letter to Bh Leely at

Mt Pleasant. All well

Very Respectfuly Yours A. V. Thurler

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Copy 1 St George Dec 18th 183

W B Pace

Returned from Mine

Stuck a cave thee hundred feet

along ledge from ten to forty-feet-

wide from two to Fifteen feet-high

Immense quantity fore

I Never Saw a more

beautiful sight

A R Whitehead

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Received at Salt Lake City at 2:05 P M

To W B Pace_____________________________________________________________________________________

__________White House___________________________________________________________________________

One assayed today Lead_________________________________________________________________________

Seventy four silver forty________________________________________________________________________

four Number two Lead_________________________________________________________________________

Seventy one Silver Sixty_________________________________________________________________________

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Lines to all Principal Points in Utah.

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St George Utah, 25 June 1897

N. H. Groes

Dear Bro

We returned, yesterday

from the South. After carefully examining the point

above the Beaver Dam. We found it impracticable, as

a dam 60 or 70 feet high would be required, and only

about 400, or 500 acres of average land could be found.

The next day I went some 8 or 10 miles below with

Bro Dudley Leavitt and found what to me appears to be

the place wanted. A crude sketch of which I enclose

herewith. In an early day 10 or 12 families with

but little or no means located here, made a ditch as

marked on the sketch struggled along two or three years

dropping out one by one in search of clothing and nec-

essaries that could not be obtained there, until finely

the location was abandoned, except by one man for want

of sufficient help. Thus we found it, houses torn down

lumber hauled off, vineyards, orchards, lucerne (alfalfa) and farms

gone back to their original state, leaving all except

about one hundred acres free to relocation.

There is in this tract from 1500 to 2000

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acres of the very best of fruit, vineyard and farmland,

the soil is a sandy loam capable of producing anything

from a sweet potato to the fruit flavors found in

all this Southern country.

I understand that that portion lying

in Nevada has been surveyed by government and

open to preemption or homestead, Only about 200

acres of this has been under cultivation; the remainder

however, can easily be brought in by grubbing off

the brush and starting the plow.

The ditch or canal is about 4 miles long

and takes the water from the river without the aid of

any dam, This ditch will of necessity have to be

enlarged from 2 feet in the bottom its present grade

to 5 or 6 feet, to obtain water sufficient for 1000 or

more acres of land and will cost $6000.00 or $7000.00.

By the way, while in that region a reliable

resident of the vicinity proposed to enlarge the canal

to carry sufficient water for 2000 acres of land, for

$6000.00 after which he would give bonds to keep the

water there perpetually at an annual cost of not more

than $2.00 per acre payable in cash produce and labor

The climate is mild, Winter and Summer

and in Mid Summer, decidedly warm, but after the

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second year the growth of trees will greatly reduce the

temperature , the people will have become acclimated, and

would then scarcely exchange a home in the sunny South

for a place in a Northern clime, yes the surroundings

are desert-like, the mountains are barren and the general

outlook a desert waste.

The distance from St George is about 50 miles

southwest.

Now if you have not changed your mind

and still want a fruit farm, this is the best show in

all this Southern country, besides it will afford a

safe retreat for many of our brethren who are liable

to be returned to the Pen, to make comfortable homes, and

although the starting will be attended with much

labor and toil the outcome will ampily reward the

effort

Please submit this to Bro. John Henry

Smith as he kindly requested me to report and to

such others as you may deem proper, and if considered

favorable then come down and see for yourself.

Personally, I am broke and cannot figure very

largely in this enterprise, but will try to do enough to

secure a small retreat for my family

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Please let me hear from you as soon as practicable

And believe me as ever

Your Brother VC?

W. B. Pace

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If however the [next three words crossed out] Road is Puerch Chase [Thorne Obe]

[five words crossed out] and

you wish to avoid the route from

Cedar City to St George, then the

next best thing would be to leave

the U & P at Lund and run

S westly across the desert 30 miles

to Holl's thence 3 miles to Ft Horn

then (Mt Meadows) thence down the

Mogotso & Clara Cr to Gunlock

thence S. W by 10 miles over rolling

Hills to Jackson Springs, thence

down Jackson Wash 15 miles

to Terrys on Beyond Dam Wash

thence down {this open] San Wash [word crossed out]

[four words crossed out] & Casy Grade 20 miles to

Rio Virgin where you will

intercept the line noted in

former letter. This route I ex

ammined critically in the early, 80's

for [word crossed out] the late John Sharp while the

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building of another road in the early

future, from the fact that [the] short Line

south of Nephi Utah is entirely off the

line of Traffic. It was built, princip-

ally by a subsidy from the Horn Silver

Mine, at Frisco, and thence, availing

Itself of the first possible opening to

the West, plunged frantically out

into the Desert, ignoring all inter

ests not embraced in the Horn Silver

Mining Company.

It would seem that a through Line

to be permanently Successful, should

top San Pete Valley from Nephi, then

through Sevier Valley to Joseph City

thence up Clear Creek to the Sul-

pher beds, then passing thru Beaver

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through a barren Desert, with

only two or three Small ranches

on the upper end, the lower 60

miles is almost destitute of water,

then you Strike the Muddy [word crossed out]

[word crossed out] fifteen or twenty miles above the

Muddy Valley Settlements = from

here you have 55 miles of desert

(without any water) to the Vegas,

the first 10 to 15 miles heavy up

grade. From the Vegas, Good Spring

Minning Camp, 25 Miles westerly will

be your first fright depot, of any

consequence is Now from Nephi Utah

along this line to Good Springs Nevada

is near 400 miles, leaving a line

of flourishing towns, cities and

valuable mining camps in South

ren Utah Northern Arizona and

South eastern Nevada, entirely

out in the cold, with out any beniefit

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T. Kearny

Oct 30

1900