Show improvements in davis county on a tour we had occasion to make last week through davis county not to resuscitate for we are not aware that our physical physic al or mental powers have been particularly impaired by confinement or by too close application to business in the discharge of the various duties devolving 0 upon us but to see after a few matters that required our personal attention we were pleased to seethe improvements tha that have been and are being made this season in most of the settlements they are highly creditable to those immediately interested in their progression and completion and a matter of course designed andare and are making the improvements prove ments for their own good and that of other others sas as well as for the general prosperity and advancement of their respective neighborhoods new houses and barns have been built or are in in progress of erection and additions and I 1 emendations are being made to others evincing in I 1 a taste for comfort and convenience not I 1 i universally manifested by the inhabitants of a I 1 new country I there are seemingly a few people scattered through that county as in other portions of I 1 ithe the territory who do not know from experience the superiority of shingles for roofing to dirt and gravel ravel however itis it is not proof positive that the owners of those primi primitive tive tire houses that occasionally meet the eye have no taste I 1 nor ambition because they dwell under dirt roofs there may be causes for their apparent slothfulness that passers by know not and without knowledge it is impossible to judge correctly in relation to such matters in instances by the tb e force of ce ces smelt mer mei are compell eddo edlo summer suffer inconveniences and endure endured privations priva tiong against their will but there are many who have bare no ambition nor taste seemingly 0 more than the beasts of the field and would as lief liet live all their lifetime I 1 in a hovel as in a palace and sooner if they had it to build even when the means were at their command the fruit trees in most of the settlements look very efy well not hagim having t suffered as much from the effects of the cold blighting winter as in great salt lake county but the people there have not planted out as many trees for fruit shade or ornament as they have bavi here in truth there ought doubt to be at least one hundred fold more of those emblems of life growing there than there are now the ile stone fences in farmington and center ville precincts attracted our attention and bro brought 1 fresh to mind many scenes of youthful days they are preferable to ditches mud wall sor poles though in some instances those fences in davis davia were not laid up by workmen acquainted with the Vu business siness but by those who had but faint ideas of straight lines and right angles 0 alid aid ald no very clear conceptions of neatness in architectural structure otherwise they would have made walls more pleasing to the eye and at the same time more durable than some of those structures will be among other things of a public nature the roads in that county are receiving some attention and if the work of improvement continues in that respect as it has commenced this spring 0 the territorial road through t bilat that county will in the course of ti la f few ew years be quite passable pas pable but it needs straitening in many places in passing a through a davis as also th through 0 other portions ons of the territory the scrutinizing zin traveler cannot but be impressed with the importance and ne necessity of improvement in the construction of houses made of especially those of the larger size and more than one story high to prevent them from cracked cracking and requiring props ia in some come instances to keep them from falling 0 when built as they should be adebie houses will wili stand as well as those made of other materials but they are not very safe nor valuable when they are built without ref rei reference arence to strength and durability rabi lity til the new stone house at bountiful built bulit by mr daniel carter is a neat substantial good looking building and will resist the action of I 1 water and the corroding C tooth of time ti in e better than those choso built of wood or bricks and where building stone can be easily ob bained Duil duli buildings dings can be made ot of rock at as little expense aso as fany other material usel used used in this country 1 blavin having said ahus much about the enter enie enterprise prize and thrift manifested by our frends friends in the ag ticul t ural urai bunty of div Davis 11 where ilie th e crops have gea gen good and are aee now looking copl ipa first rate wi we cannot well close without expressing press in a hope bope that while other thing sale saie sare receiving due attention the large and commodious di 10 us meeting house at bountiful not yet completed will not be forgotten and that the good people at freedom will arise and build a splendid house on the foundation that was laid there years yeara ago A structure should be raised there that would be an ornament to the place and an index to the character and enterprise enter prize ot of the citizens citizen sand and the next time we have occasion to pass that way we shall be pleased if on our return we can report that the houses to which we have referred have been or that they will shortly thereafter from appearances be completed |