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Show OUR ST. GE0K6E LETTER. Autumn in the Soutn Improvements Improve-ments Being Made Coal For 1 St. George Accidents. Sr. Geobje, Oct. SI, 1371. Editors Salt Lake Herald: Although for the last three nights there has been a light frost which haa "dimmed the lustre" of some of the most tender plants and flowers, yet the foilage of verdure around stiil wears the dark green hue of summer, with a faint tint of golden autumn visible in some particular trees. The alanthus, the catalpa, the Judas tree and elm seem to be satisfied with the summer, and ere the first frost, were gently laying aside their summer j robes for a gentle whiter sleep; Tinea of sweet potatoes and melons are killed, but we see many plants of tomatoes, dahlias and other tender plants still unscathed. Wine making is done; winter apples gathered and ' put away; men are in the field? finish- I ing up me molasses, gathering broom corn and bene, and putting in small grain. Improvements in the city are being pushed with all the vigor that the pnsent corps of help can muster. .President Young's residence, a neat, pleasant, unostentatious mansion, is 1 nearly completed, as also is a very tasty and commodious dwelling being erected by Thomas Judd. The T. M. Co. have completed a neat and 'airy meat market adjoining their manufactorywhere they dailydispense the most savory of cutlets ind roasts under the management ol D. Seeg-miller. Seeg-miller. In tho new telegraph and express office our genial friend Robert of the wires has as handsome and cosy a corner- as we have seen, as a peep inside last evening revealed. Friend "Mac" in his new and well arranged oriice among the folios, seems comfortably at home. At the T. & M. department Colonel A. P. Hardy or in common parlance "Gus" is turning out enough shoes, boots, harness an.t saddles, or nearly so, to supply our community, and some orders from adjacent towns; thus , cutting ofl most importations in that i" V I There is a strong party now opening open-ing the road to new coal mines on j Ash Creek, which w ill bring us with-. with-. iu thirty miles of abundance of excellent excel-lent coal.. - Early in this week quite an outfit went out to Grand Gulch to sink a deeo shaft into those rich ledges ' of copper, and to develop fairly that .valuable property. I Several of our citizens recently started for the seat of "legal lore," , Beaver, to serve as grand jurymen, wisely providing themselves with capacious niuzzlei, in which to re-ceivethe re-ceivethe enormous ohargo of the I Mormon-eating judge. A large accession of workmen for ftle templo are daily arriving from tho north, together with several families fam-ilies as permanent settlers hero. "" A little boy of Geo. Link's, who would be a "woeden gun brigadier," met with an accident tho other day, while discharging his hoe-handie gun. There were many slivers iu his face and ons big one through his nose i n to his mou t h . Mr. Rom ney i a doing well. . - Weather delightful and bees at work. Mercury up to 70 in the shade. I have a lilac bus!) in full bloom. J. |
