Show EXTRACTS front from a letter aletter from elder ama amasa s a lyman SAN sai bernardino july ay 29 1853 DEAH BELETTI BRETHREN REX since our return there has been sick sickness mostly a rather malignant form of fever from this however no deaths have occa occurred there have been but two deaths one of thein br david cade who died in the he month of june from of the brain caused by a fill froal fraai his hia horse he lingered in n a state of apparent insensibility fur for ten eq days the other w was s a case of consumption a mr Val lorder an emigrant who joined the church here ali his fun family i I 1 v ure are in iowa the mention oi of this in ia the news might chance to give information to his bis family thit jhc thc they y need not keep a fruitless watch for the gold seekers seeker s return I 1 lor for here he purchased the pearl and has gone to a rest irom from which the anxious tears of wife and children will fail to woo his return our oar wheat crop which gave early promise of an aej abundant harvest has been ex en injured by tile the rust yet I 1 think we shall have our bread and a surplus with good prospect for fruit nothing in tile way ot of poi polities ties very exciting WL we are now organized into a county called gaii bernardino D AL is ia our county judge H hj G sherwood Sherwoo tl county surveyor or quartus PS sparks arks coonly attorney robert chit She sheriff Tiff val ani stout assessor davia seeley treasurer win vm J cox coi coroner R B R hopkins Hopki aa clerk and 1 I recorder our county extends north of san diego some 40 or 59 50 miles tile the precise distance I 1 ido do not know but it il connects on the east with utah and reaches within some 25 or 30 3 milas of the ocean we are entitled to one representative ve we have three saw mills built and lumber is worth 50 pr thousand we have just purchased two rana of burrs fur for our floering flouring flou ring will mill which we expect to put in order iman immediately di ate ly for flouri flou floering flouring ring anz our present crop we sell our flour at 6 12 1 2 cents per pound I 1 |