Show co october editor deseret mews news deai dear sir As your paper often contains items of interest from the different settlements throughout the territory I 1 thou thought ht I 1 would pen a few lines relative to our circumstances in this settlement we have cave been greatly blessed notwithstanding the ravages of the grasshoppers and I 1 think that grain has been raised in this valley to meet the wants of the people although the entire crop of grain at montpelier and the other settlements on that side of the river was destroyed the crop throughout the valley is excellent and the people appear to be satisfied with their present and future pros prospects sets and they often T express vei vel that X bear lake Is not such a bad pi eai eli 1 fter after CI all ali 1 11 we are in a somewhat iwo iro plated locality calaty in the winter season M we forget that when the beautiful grass covers our mountains and valley and the excellent fish monopolize our streams in the spring we have many advantages in this valley that the people of many localities are comparatively destitute of such as timber water range which we are aie abundantly blessed we have long lung cold winters which give glye us more time for study and the accumulation of knowledge and I 1 am of the opinion that the time thus afforded us will prove noth nothing ing less than la a blessing if judiciously improved we b have ave axe a Sunda bunda sunday yand and dy day school inthis in this settlement which favorably although we haye have not all the de dee der sired faculties facil ties fot fox fo the education of the y young oung I 1 suppose suppose the public would like to know how the tha monsters are th thriving riving but I 1 do not think any of them have made their appearance very la teley if they have I 1 have not been informed of the same the brethren are busily engaged in hauling fire wood and otherwise preparing for winter I 1 would also say that a number are engaged in constructing a new road from this valley via logan canyon respectfully a citizen ot of bloomington i for the deseret evening news 24 1869 editor evening news sir sin how very strange it beems seema that there should be such sach a feverish anxiety in the nation to have bave the government do something with the cormons mormons Mor mons in utah by way of bf embair embarrassing assing them in their pursuits of happiness when mostly all alf parties agree that tuey are an orderly industrious and quiet people that they have madette made the wilderness and desert plains to rejoice and blossom as the rose that evidences of thrift meet the travelers eye in every settlement and that fruit fault trees and gardens rien in products abound on every hand and on an and arid and ap apparently ardently barren barrer soil soll oil oli which has cost millions eions to reclaim from the deserts eserts eberts g grasp rasp why should they want to disturb annoy injure or vex sucha people if they were to ask the savior odthe of the virld grid virid what be he thought odthe of the mormons Mor mons 1 I wish they would and get his answer would mould he not be very likely to say by their fruits shall ye yo know them do men men gather grapes of thorns or figs ot thistles whistles es if it the stream is sweet why think the fountain bitter la aa such a thought liberal Is it not inspired by an unfounded narrow minded prejudice that stinks of meanness in the nostrils at every generous soul dills land is naturally barren and wOrth worthless lessi iessi except to I 1 hold bold the world together and run the railroad over big buy god iw hath blessed it for our sakes ha hath greatly increased the waters and where from fifteen to twenty years yearb ears ago there was no more water than would woula serve three or four families with small gardens now there ar are arb a more than two aundrel families prosperous farmers with quite a surplus of water generally now if god were as greatly opposed thour polygamy ansome of our christian statesmen and lawmakers who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel 1 I should think he would dry us up instead of increasing 0 our ur water by causing hundreds and hundreds of of fountains to break forth where water was vas never known till our increasing I 1 pa population pu lation demanded it if our christian neighbors had the power to dry up our waters and thereby force us to scatter or perish who does not believe they would do it ohl oh how unlike god they would act they do you see the point will you not pray to god to dry ua us up if you yon are really true christians lod sod god iod will hear and answer your prayers in inthis this event and by these means you have the cheapest and most sure remedy for the evils of bf which you so loudly and perseveringly complain n that you dousay isay exist in utah in the day when secession was rife in the southern states a member of congress from louisiana said to a hot hotheaded head or rather a rabid northern senator what will you do with louisiana if bhe she secedes you yon will not coerce her hen will you the honorable senator la is said to have replied when we purchased louisiana from spain she was a wilderness and if she secede by G d well make her a wilderness again I 1 have chave quoted but from memory and nd may way not be strictly correct in form but correct in substance when we came to utah we found it a wilderness the most undesirable place we ever saw and if it our enemies force us to leave it god will make it a aI wilderness again he will dry up the waters curse the landane lan ian land dand and charge the air with death I 1 have no fears however of any such an occurrence though I 1 thus write aside from the bible nature and the providence sot god abundantly demonstrate the divine authenticity of our oar holy religion rell reil gion glon add to these the bible proofs and zions cause is established beyond the possibility of a reasonable doubt and he that fights against it thrusts a needle into the pupil of 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