| Show A ROSY PICTURE AL A northern elysium troph cattle land water health and other conditions to 0 o match kale eagle 4 kock nearly no wore more an antt anti mormon tt ormon false prophet I 1 idaho august 1887 editor deseret news menan is situated about 18 miles north of eagle rock on the south side of snake river it has about inhabitants babi tants and is situated on the menan island in the midst of the finest farming country in southeastern idaho the acreage sown last spring was much greater than ever before beforehand and the result is the old granaries are too sm alland the farmers are building new and larger ones truly the lord has haa opened tile windows of heaven and poured out a blessing there is not room enough eno u gh to contain our mail service is but little better than th annone botie WP wi are living within eighteen miles of a daily and we get ours once a week it is called a week weekly I 1 y mail and it is so extremely weakly that it fails to get he heie e sometimes and we are arc left without mill mail for two weeks at a time however we are prom promised isea a semiweekly semi weekly service in the antar atar future the health of the people throughout b the bannock stake is i excellent there being little or no sickness of any kind in any of our settlements word comes from all parts never before have we had bad such abundant crops the spring and summer nave have been unusually propitious rains have been uD uncommonly commonly frequent freau ent the result it is thousands of fat battit and fields loaded with a rich harvest everybody rejoices surely this is a land ot of milk and honey and t the b e great question now is where can we market our grain there i ample broom 1 room in bingham Bing liam Count county alone for one thousand countiss ism families hes of good industrious latter day saints there are land and w water ater in abundance and if some of our brethren who are laboring by days work to support their families and those who are merely living on small patches of land who scarcely earn enough to keep soul and body to zether would come to this goodly good ay land with industry avo and frugality they soon be independent I 1 lam am informed that thai the idaho test oath keeps many of the latter day saints from coining to id idaho abo to settle this is perhaps the case but let me siy say to those who contemplate coming here while it ic is ext extremely remely humiliating iati I 1 and seemingly degrading to a liberty loving people like the latter day saints I 1 am of the opinion trie the time is not tar far distant when the obnoxious thing will be ex punted fioco the statute books of this territory the object of the law was to make a split in the ranks ot of the democrats and strengthen the republican cause it has bas filled its mission nithe the republicans republica nR elected thor their delegate to Con congress grets at the jast election and man many of its former supporters are now ready ready to use their influence against it they realize it was conceived in fraud and brought forth in rascality and the result is the interests of the territory are blocked thousands of acres of good laud are arc leinz idle for the want of gett settlers lers there is not one bue settler coming to bint bingham golyatin county jo today joday to day where there were ten three years wo ayo there is i still room for thousands thousand thou sanda 8 tuure more |
