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Show NOTES FROM. ST. GEORGK Sr. Geohuk, Nov. IS. 17. L'Jilorj Hniih This morning, at day-break, the rain comuif-need with a gentle patter upon tlie roof, and has so continued all day, with clouds heavy and dark resting upon the mountains around. The season lias Iwen very dry for month-. round unlit for fall and wiiii-T crops, and roads fearfully worn ami duty. We hupe that ro;u1s. fi.ii-?. canlens and ranges may now be improved. -Early in October, loader loa-der vegetation was checked by frost, nearly a month earlier than hist year. The weatht-r sine: then has leen pleasant, with little- or no frost, many plants going on with foliage and blivim in sumnifr fashion. Our wine crop has proved almost a failure, not more than a fourth the amount of last year being prixlueed. Apples were al.-o a light crop, leaving few for winter use; and as the small trrain crop was also short, we are left altogether with less of produce, probably prob-ably than. in any previnus year. Add to this, the fact that tho usual sums of money paid our citizens for learn m trk, labor, and produce in the region of Pioehehaci bwn culotV.and one may readily conclude, that commercially we are rather dry, or in business parlance par-lance "short." Notwithstanding all this the improvements improve-ments in this city have gone along with unusual briskness, as one may note, passing through ourstreets. The new tithing otfice is a substantial, and well-finished building; Messrs. McDonald & Co. have just finished the erection of a new and commodious commo-dious smith shop; S. L. Adams is building a '.large machine shop near his former business place; J. W. Nixon Nix-on has finished his new fine front store, and tilled it with tin and hardware, hard-ware, and is .now finishing in front an airy covered veranda; the lower story ol our new " c -op." store is well finished, and the shelves arc tenanted ten-anted with a nice Btock of goods; President Young's" new dwelling is being roofed and finished; the Court house, long waiting further adornment adorn-ment is now being closed in and 'deme,' and materials for the Gardener's Club wine house and cellar, are being accumulated preparatory to its being " rushed," and generally the spirit ot improvement is abroad; the new Tabernacle Tab-ernacle also being nearly-finished up, and work on the Temple steadily going on, all of which augurs "better "bet-ter times comintr." A capacious steam saw mill has been "emigrated" to Mount Trumbull, a choice pine-region about fifty miles south of here, over which distance a good road can be made, and a better ( quality of lumber can be brought to our city; a vein of-most excellent coal has been discovered and opened, on i Ash Creek, wituin less than thirty - miles of this place, and iron ore in great abundance is close at hand. D. H. Cannon has built a new and tidy ' meat market, where finest cuts are daily dispensed.- ? A. W. Miller has just returned from , the north, bringing several fine blooded blood-ed bucks for our "00. -op" sheep-herd, and the Utah Cashmere Goat company com-pany arc now moving their valuable t stock to a milder winter climate near this place. Our bee cult u rifts met recently and 1 organized an association of some twenty-five members, wide awake and interested, to meet the first Saturday Satur-day in each month. There is no disease di-sease among our bees, and they have done well generally the past season. ! The apiary of J. E. Johnson has been : increased from filly, since last April, to 175 now, and under his care the apiarv of John Pymm has been increased in-creased from one hive to nineteen, how all safe and goal. Bees are still at work bringing in honey and pollen. Our citizens have organized a library association, collected quite a library, and will keep open a rending room m the future. - -"A jew;" J. |
