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Show Though the people of Sanpete have stiffeied fiom numcioiis floods and lost thousands ol tlollais in the decline of the sheep industry they ate by no meant discouraged or given up hope but on the other hand are "up and a-goinp,." a-goinp,." Mt. Pleasant is ieall a pleasant city with good Mrects and some fine public buildings and tesidenccsr They have almost al-most completed a large vSooo school house containing 12 rooms which would be a credit to any city. The people tire proud of their city and accord a heart' welcome to strangeis who pay them a visit. They claim there is more sheep owned there accoid-ing accoid-ing to the population than in any. city in the union. Kphriam in another of the count 's foiemost cities. They have just completed and furnished a splendid three-room building to be 1 sed as a stake academy-This academy-This ins itution has hern directed by l'rof. N. U. Noyes for seveial ears and has grown very rapidly drawing students from Sanpete an.l the adjacent counties. Two raihoads enter town affording good Iran.-poitati'jn facilities. A number of attractive buildings have been elected the last few 'ears. The pi-ople are sociable land er.teitaiuing and many are interested in l.ehiand her people. I Lil-e the fitiiuers elsewheie they ate anxious to hear about our sugar factory. While there I met liishop Madsen of Gunnison who has always been enthusiastic ; 011 the sugar beet question. He I has studied it a great deal and is p'eased to hear of its success hete. He thinks beets can be successfully success-fully laised in southern Sanpete and if he can get suitable rates on the mill oad will put in several acic3 ncM year. He has spent . much time and money in his experiments ex-periments for the good of the cause. |