8 - the advancing army and a large force of Mormons went out to make an attack upon their supply-train, and they succeeded in taking the train by surprise at night, and captured the whole train and after burning nearly all the wagons with their valuable contents and setting the grass on fire along the road, the party returned without loss, bringing with them the cattle and animals of the train back to our fortifications, bringing the herdsmen and teamsters in as prisoners. In this manner we kept the army but of Utah during that fall, winter and spring. In the summer following however, soaring that they would suceed in finding some other way of getting into the valley without passing through the canons we had so strongly guarded the mormons moved to Southern Utah, leaving all their hopes and property to fall into the hands of the army, we took with us only food for ourselves and animals, and much things that were necessary. The Mormon army remained to still guard and defend the passes through the mountains. In the latter part of the summer a treaty of peace was made with the army, so they were allowod to enter the valley, and the Mormons returned to their homes from their retreat in the South, and both sides wore mighty glad that the war was over as the army and Mormons were both pretty tired and were out by the long hardships in camp. I was with the Mormon forces in Echo Canon when the United States army passed through it and waw them to beabadly worn out lot of soldiers. This canon is about fifty miles east of Ogden and the Union Pacific Railway now finds a peaceful passageway through it, where that tired army marched a few years before, and the comfortable passenger can look up as he rides along to the high tops of the mountains and still see the rocks that were piled up by the Mormons to be hurled down upon that army. This canon was called "Echo" on account of its echoing every sound that is made in it. You can scarcely speak in it without hearing the sound echoed over and over again from the sides of this narrow defile. This canon is about five miles long and it might bo said that it was nature that gave the Mormons advantages enough to overcome an army to immensely superior 212