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Show AX OUT. Observations, Thoughts and Suggestions. Sug-gestions. Editors Herald : I started, on Thursday morning last, on a little out with Mr. C. R. Savage, for Pelican Point. It really does one good to leave this city, with its growling and grumbling about hard times, and mix with people who are more hopeful, and on the Utah Southern, between this city and Sandy, there is a good opportunity of doing so. The miner very Beldom has the blues; no matter if be has not enough to pay for a dinner to-day, hia to-morrow to-morrow is always brieht. "There are millions in it," is generally his expression; so that by conversation with the miner, if a person has the blues, he gets rid of them by the time he reaches Sandy. We got ofl at Labi. They are building a face rock two story building build-ing there, close to the depot, for the coop. Blare. Cooperation in merchandising, mer-chandising, lumber and manufacturing manufactur-ing boots and shoes ib quite a success, and uccording to all accounts, does credit to those iu charge and to the people who BUitain it. They have lately gone into tha manufacture of furniture, and are quite sanguine, from the encouragement already received, re-ceived, that it will prove a Buccess. Although the scarcity of cash ia very inconvenient, a great good is growing out of it. People are becoming to realize that in the absence of money they must manufacture a great many articles they want, or go without them. The consequence is that home industries are springing up in all parts of the territory, and if they are conducted honestly aud sustained by the people, we will at no distant day export instead of import a great many articles. I observe that the cultivation of lucerne is on the increase every spring in Leht. They are up to the times in thiB respect. Land that formerly was considered entirely useless use-less and good for nothing but to raise sunflowers and weeds, now produces two or three crops of this valuable feed. Pelican Point, tbe place we Btarteu for, is about thirteen miles south of Lehi, on the west Bide of the valley, and between these two points there are thousanda of acres of as good bench land bb most in the territory, but unfortunately there is no water in Right. Still, the land is being taken up. We saw a young man Irom the city who bad been waiting around to bbg if something would turn up. He got tired of waiting, and he ia now digging a well on some of this dry, barren -looking bonch, with the intention of getting water and putting a wind-mill on it to irrigate irri-gate his farm. The rising ground west of Pelican Point is the place to Bee Utah valley and lake to advan tago. At one glance you can take m the whole vallfiY, with tbe snowcapped snow-capped Wasatch mountains lor a back ground aud eight thriving towns in sight. It makes a fine picture. Mr. Savage took some very fine views of the lake and surrounding scenery. There is no settlement here only a few lonely cottages, inhabited principally prin-cipally by Scandinavians, wbo sustain sus-tain themselves by fishing and rais iug chickens and stock. By the by, we bad heard that Utah lake abounded abound-ed in Bah, and procured the necessary implements to procure a meaB, and met with greater success than our most sanguine expectation could desire de-sire : but after spending houra in fruitless attempts to pull out one, we at laat discovered that a Bilver dollar was tbe only bait that would make them bite. With that for bait, we caught some as lovely while trout as ever screamed in a frying pan. Eighteen cents per pound. Business soems to be looking up on the Utah Southern, and Beaver appears ap-pears to be the point of attraction for many who are traveling on that road. RiBNUD. |
