Show of SAMARIA ie people A SIMM maker EDITOR JUNCTION As samaria has not been frequently through the columns of your valuable paper which is road with groat among our people I avail myself of the opportunity of sending thi letter ria is situated southwest from malad city located in the most pleasant spot in malad valley and has tho best facilities it has a range of mountains borits background upon which in time you may sen hundreds ot horses and battlo grazing to iho east and in front of tho city thre is a lake abounds in fish and is surrounded with tall waving grass and grain which makes alio scene very picturesque SaniA iia was lirot settled by john P einns ond a few other families in alio spring of 1868 but to adny it lias a population of about souls and is increasing very rapidly during tho last two years the people have built about tour miles of fence which encloses thousand of acres known as the west field alie land is irrigated from two ditches ono of which is about three and alie oilier about eight miles long both streams come from brings and arc not entirely dolend s ant on tho mountain snow the water is plentiful here so far and if alio llio people aro not infested too much by alio grasshopper they must in a few years bacomo the most prosper om and self sustaining people in tho valley they do not now depend upon any ali ing but their own resources and honest toil A branch of the malad coop co op store lias been established here which is conducted ay mr IS morse it has a sale of about 75 per week they also have a small coop co op sheep herd is in a prosperous condition it is tho present calculation to have a grist fiill built upon the warm springs lareo miles from samaria which will 30 ablo to run nine months during tho year the inhabitants of samaria are chiefly welsh with the exception of a few english and american families most of the settlers came from the coil and iron works and had never seen farming before they caroo to this country they camo hero for no other purpose than to arve god according to liis mind and will let come aliat might they therefore went to work with willing hearts and determined mind perseverance and lon buttering Bufter ing so that now they arc not afraid to compare their of agriculture or grazing with any of their formerly more ex neighbors I hivo lived imong them as a school teacher for he last four years and I can conscientiously say that they are as a community the most industrious and thrifty pomplo with whom I ever came in contact samaria as a branch is under the leadership of prest S D williams who in a kind hearted and unassuming man and under the supervision our worthy bishop geo bunford hun ford who works hard for tho welfare of tho people both spiritually and temporally po rally they leavo a day school here which lifts been taught by W D evana for six months during the year for the last three years they also have a good and well attended sunday school superintended super intended by mr R morse and alted acted al ted by thomas thorps who every inducement to lead the young minds in tho paths of truth and virtue all the quo arums rums and organizations that are in larger places are represented here from alio greatest to the least the crops look unusually well now and alie grasshoppers leavo not made their appearance in yet wo feel to extend an invitation o a good shoemaker who would liko to make dimaria Si maria his home and take such pay as alie people have to give to come along I think lie would do 11 SAMARIA may |