Show I 1 I 1 nephi 1854 EDITOR OF THE sir we enjoy a reasonable portion of health and a good degree of union and peace are at peace with the natives ac tiie the grasshoppers i and bugs have been doing their work the beet crop is entirely and the alie crop mostly destroyed st and much injury is don to wheat and oats and water very scarce for what vs is left salt creek not being so high ai a usual aar nor retaining its height so long so all is io right the destroyer cut off what the water would have ave failed to irrigate so we see the hand of the lord in in it the people are satisfied with place and ad show a disposition to build it up the city wall is progressing and of the finest quality of ha hay are being doled into our pla place ce ev every ery day from our rich luxuriant meadows our oar wheat and oat harvest has just commenced our corn will be late our er crops aps will be ab about out an average considerable smut in wheat 1 we still herd our cattle stand guard and carry our small arms with us into the fields ing costs us as about 10 A per er day per year our gua guarding r ding will cost 50 cents e ats per watch of two hours four wate watch lips ps two men gnat a time 4 per night 1460 per year added to the above makes a sum of we expect to close our city wall by conference and have a time of rejoicing and may we all pull together and wake make a ion long g 11 and a strong pull I 1 1 NI LOmEN t I 1 SALT ALT LAKE august 1854 MR EDITOR eni ron 1 sir in compa company riv with the clerks of the historians to office I 1 left this city on the at h lost just about 3 rpm ani weather excessively iida hot we were conveyed by the kindness othon edson whipple and arrived at union it at 6 pm where we supped cupped with bishop silas faila richards ids we noticed they had made 4 A fair commencement with their fort wall we arrived at lt lehi about I 1 a in I 1 S sunday where we W were eie kindly received and comfortably entertained li by judge preston thomas at ata 10 lo m wa we attended meeting with afi ahr e saints when and F elder thos thoa bullock addressed a numerous assembly after service imbued I 1 joined ezek eze kael iel hopkins and the W widow of af abraham leasin 4 marriage and we partook of the wedding dinner the citizens have in made ide considerable progress pro kiess with iviah their wall the work being very well executed we arrived at lake city at I 1 pm ato afi attended I 1 meeting which was wai addre addressed sAed b by myself iryse if elders bullock hawkins iiii whipple and others we arrived at provo aa at 9 SO 10 pp ap p m A feast wag made there on oh monday for the indians over 00 of whom partook thereof three beeves were killed and f four our barrels of bus cuita caits Turn iWed to together Zether with a considerable quantity ty af T ege J tables A large quantity of blohin clothing 9 was pi 00 tri buted among them under the direction geo bean interpreter the whole r an by the inhabitants I 1 of provo I 1 on tuesday ful bullock lock grims Grim griesha sha hal and dlf hawkins amused themselves by fishing in m the provo and caught some splendid t abt trout tir br porter kind kindly ly furnishing the rieti net on wednesday dined it at ilder elder whip ples and on thursday visited Sprig ville and dined at eshop aaron John johnsons here CIEs mes sers grimshaw and hawking Hawkin took the stage on their return home rethey arrived on friday eve evening ni ncr being driven in first rate style by madison D flar ableton on who is energetically performing rather a h rd mail contract for uncle sarn i br bil bullock returned resumed at same sam time aime I 1 jas jaa Menden halls 1 by convey conveyance kne C I 1 went on to palmyra on afternoon and nd president Tia ving heard 1 I was 6 on n the road had notified the citizens and quite a large congregation of saints assembled who lis t ened with bre breathless breith less attention while I 1 preached to them for two hours aoura they estimate es lunare their crops of wheat this season to be bushe iii Consi considerate derale has been done towards eif enclosing eloping their fort I 1 I 1 saturday I 1 attended a session of the high council at provo I 1 prea clied on the sabbath for two boutu taa to a very very large assembly iii m the bowery bovery on the subject of of the resurrection during the day elder wm win hyde arrived from australia having left leff there last march in company with 60 saints ailts wh who remained at son san ber nardino he fie returned from australia on account of his health which is is still very verT poor I 1 immense cinense swarms of grasshoppers have visited nearl nearly y all the farming disic ts of utah county and have done considerable damage to ta the corn oats oate and late i irden garden vegetables the election in utah chanty resulted in in the return of evan M greene duncan mcarthur and james C snow for representatives gilbert haws for select man and alexander williams for She sheriff rifT the people were so 0 occupied cupi with their harvest barvest that few cai amatively arat ively took time tor to visit the ballot box 1 4 I took occasion in my travels to recommend the patronage a cre of the deseret the people are enjoying jo ying excellent health anti and universal prosperity I 1 arrived inthis in this city on mon monday day evening last after ai comfortable ride from provo in the car and company of gideon 0 D wood mayor of springville Spring ville and his son SOB lyman S wood Indian Inter Interpreter p reter restarted we started at 9 am and arri arrived ked he here re at 7 7 s 30 p in I 1 i I 1 yours GEO GEOA A SMITH I 1 |