| Show all B J h BY volt FOX A lof green en writing from fram st david co C ale county arizona 89 under date of may mayeth ath says the earthquake which took place on the ad dinst m n this locality and of which you vou have learned by telegraph te evgraph was first cirit felt althis at bis place ut at pip p m and lasted between two and three minutes first the waves appeared to come from west to east and after that ahat from north to south the damage to buildings at this place and vicinity is considerable our commo commodious divus schoolhouse school bouse was de moli sned tied toe the wesa end tell fell out all the adobe bouses in the place were cracked and rendered unsafe to live in we line have had hilight shocks at intervals v ever sin since ce the first night seven distinct shocks were felt Yest yesterday erda y and last night five more came some of them quite heavy I 1 have just returned from a visit to a clay flat two miles below st david anthe on the san pedro river where I 1 saw the earth all kal cracked open and through the crevices water and white sano sand had bad been thrown up we could see that large quantities st water had bad come out dof odthe the open opening ingE and the earth appeared to have raised about six inches on each side the earthquake caused quite a scare among the people but fortunately fortunate lypo no one was injured the school was in session but it happened to be recess and all the children were outside of the house nearly all the people sleep outdoors at night now for fear the houses will fall the schoolhouse school hoose was also used as a meetinghouse meeting house and its demolition is quite a blow to us as we have now no place to meet in on OB the he sabbath abbath day and no BO place to hoed hold day school our crops look splendid and there is good promise of an abundant harvest barvest late frosts have injured our early peaches strawberries have been rite ripe for over a week and ti great deal of P the WV grain is 40 headed W out the health of tho people is good all the associations are in running order and doing much good our ward is presided derover over by bishop M H merrill his counselors are P A Lot lofgreen green aud and jos G allred we have about forty families belonging to the ward we have some or acres of land under cultivation we havy plenty moie more land but water is scarce we are now to sink for artesian water if we succeed in obtaining it this will be a desirable country to live in as it can then sustain a great number of people for land is plenty and we nave have the best of markets marketa lor for all our brodu produce ee eggs sell for 30 to 50 cents butter 39 35 to 7 TO 0 cents grain averages per pounds beef at present is cheap I 1 we have a durable climate and those who suffer from rheumatism would profit crofit by coming here bera there are a Jew few places for sale cheap on OB account ot some we moving ving into mexico those having ing a little means would do well at this place I 1 another slight shock of earthquake has ass just occurred 0 p m the weather er is quite warm |
