| Show GOOD WORDS FOR APACHE apache co I 1 arizona sept 6 1898 As we seldom see lee anything iu in your valued paper from this far off land I 1 will pe pa i a few items we are distant by wagon road from salt lake between and miles by rail over 1800 miles but most moat of us take salt lake papers paper and are more la is with matters mattere lu in utah than to in the capital of our own territory we have hav 6 just ni st had iii s id the th e privilege of 01 bavine our st J oh OB as stake quarterly conference conte renoe hold held in ou on ward and it is plainly man et to all that at 1 ince nee be or of the salt lat lake temple the sall to as a rule in this stake have he good spirit and our oar con com was on one of the best beat if not the best attended ever hold in the stake and more idore ot of the good good spirit was wag pou poured rea out upon the elders who spoke to us than your correspondent corresponds ut ever saw flaw or felt in his experience of forty seven yea years Tilis as a member of the church it as 88 a member of the he church it seems accord according iburg to the reports of th the 0 stake presidency and it is is general in our stake we have been blessed since about the loth ot july with wita good raine fains and our ir valleys valleye and cesae mers afe abeso au green a sis a field ol 01 feed forstock for block is abundant axtt V to we e do appreciate after two years yearb of extreme drouth graw gram never got green and consequently a large share of our stock block have died and some nome who formerly had several hundred head bead of cattle battle have not cows to furnish milk for family use uee our crops cromb are light we get only on an average one cr crop op of alfalfa ai falfa and all crops are probably not over one half ot of what we have had bad we bad the nee needed red water to irrigate we have spent in labor etc about in the last two or three years in making canals canale and storage reservoirs anu ana feel eel tuat our prospects for another your year are good this ward consists of 64 54 families or a total of souls soule lie ot of whom are under eight years ot age we have two good sunday schools in the ward and three district ui strict schools our laws are very liberal on school so bool matters in arizona and we have free kic hoile and good teachers as none who axe are not well qualified can get a to toach teach we have many good resources fire woodis wood la abundant and close by we can got get a good goba load in from lour four to eight hours timo sa limber and fence poles can be got in abundance within ten miles ot of our our town we have pure water anit as a rule plenty to irrigate with but the snow in the mount mountains alibe melts in the early eaily spring anti and the flueh leaves us before we need it to remedy this we have plenty of nearly natural storage places and expect to add jacb year more of these places till we have water in abundance ibe 1 be latter day saints in this st johns stake are in number about 1500 s nils in seven bishops wards ward two of which are in new mexico many tj our brethren have become discouraged and returned to their old homes homers in utah but those who have seem to feel contented and ere long we shall have as pleasant homes as ur brethren in our dear old utah I 1 fell confident that apache county can 1 1 V stain by ber bar agricultural stock rate lug lumbering and other resources more people than your favored country of but our resources are not as an yet developed we have a good salt jake about founty miles distant we generally go and got get a load in three or four days and it is i a good article we du do not have to 0 o go into the rugged canyons as an you salt lake people used to do co our saw law timber is ia mostly on level ground and it can be truthfully said we are wore more blessed in this regard than utah we have a number of team steam and water saw mills in this county we have in this stake two good roller flour mill sone at st johns owned by the st johns U J ma M L I 1 and onest one at this place owned by our stake president davick Davi dK udall and his brother Jo joseph lopin we also have one burr will mill at alpine ward owned by joseph 3 most of the irrigation canals in this county and the wells and the agricultural developments are the work of the latter day saints sainta most of our non mormon trie ds do are engaged in ia stock rai balong aing merchandising etc A general good feeling exists biow between en all classes anu ADU we voted at our last olec election aade deemed deeme J wise wige or according to our belief with the two great parties A part of our county officers icer s are demo oras and a part he republicans p uba I 1 CA a general grod health axa exists ta in the stake except a few oa oases ot of malarial fever tat at st johns and a cargo case of snake bite in im this place A son of wm P lytle w was bitten battea by a rattlesnake about ten days ago he was passing pai ng through some weeds a and ad it took hold of his hia ankles ankle and it was wag an effort to get it loose he li has as been quite bad but is considered out of danger now we need more help in all our wards bucit but it none come to assist us our sous who are not a few in this laud land will soon goon be MOD men and ADIA they as a rule are satisfied fled to stay I 1 have been a reader of your paper for over thirty five years year and wish the dear old friend the DESERET NEWS success H CR OBBy |
