Show IROW COUNTY ELK HORN hom SPRIGS jan 25 1853 indian name Pak woots signifying cluster of springs MR editor eon OR dear deal siron finding that I 1 did not receive the news by the last mail I 1 thought I 1 would inform you that I 1 ordered ray my name to lo be forwarded for the present year with henry lunts aunts list of subscribers for cedar city I 1 thought last year 5 ear that one subscription that of my son sixtus would do for my family but be being mg so highly pleased with the valuable matter contained in the news we have this year concluded to give you I 1 three subscriptions those of my two sons sixtus and neobi whose names you have and also my own hoping by so doing to s lengthen reng then your hands to do good the subscription bill shall be arranged according I 1 to your direction with the iron company j in regard to other matters I 1 would say in in the first place that we have had bad a very moderate mode raae winter with but very little snow at a time and that not often the weather is now very fine with cool nights and warm and pleasant days dd s I 1 am keeping a large lierd herd of cattle of which many were driven from tile states last summer and have lost none with the exception I 1 of two or three small lat late e calves that were knocked in in the head by the milk maid before they were brought to the herd a common malady the i 1 cattle are thriving and doing first rate I 1 employ ai several indians to assist in tending the herd and nd doing chores about tho the house winch which 1 I find as faithful I 1 to their trust as any white man I 1 ever amplo employed the are a differ different e nt ra race ee from the who are lazy insolent and thievish while mule many of the biedes are honest faithful and industrious when employed and fed by the whites waites they are a great help to the farmers for many of them will do as much work as most any white man in a day and can bo be I 1 hired for their board and some small present b by awa way v of old clothing I 1 always feed them when they L call ta on me I 1 have fed as many as twenty or thirty strange pi des at a time and afterwards when I 1 would be away from home and any of them would find me they would catch me by the hand or arm and give it a hearty shake exclaiming to their corni conti I 1 I 1 rades kearstin Kear shu slin the name by which I 1 am known among them a aitio very good they are a great benefit to me in herding clearing land putting in and securing crops ac the iron works are progressing as fast as could bo be expected the brethren have found a plenty of ore within half a mile of the furnace and expect to put the furnace in blast in a afew few dalsas days as I 1 am told the brethren in the new settlements further south are doing well and in ill good spirits I 1 think these southern valleys are arc the best calculated to accommodate new settlers of any I 1 have seen in the mountains for there is no calculating the end of pine timber and water power neither our firewood and stone coal and having farmed to a considerable extent for two years past in tile the valleys I 1 can say that it is my opinion that their fertility cannot be surpassed in these mountains and if all the men in deseret were to make iron all their lives the approximation toward the end of our iron ore could scarce be visible then come 0 1 ye farmers fur mers mechanics and iron mongers bongers mon gers if any there be in D despret Des seret cret who are not located by counsel and are not counseled come to iron county for here you can find plenty of soil water timber firewood potters clay plaster paris stone coal iron ore and a variety of other minerals which are ready and easy to be organized into various useful articles needed to make yourselves and the inhabitants of deseret comfortable independent and happy poetry not in season yours Y ours as ever JOEL H JOHNSON d P S february ath A little cooler with a littfe snow last night scarcely enough to whiten the ground but very pleasant this morning had no before the present for several weeks J H J |