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Show From St. George. By a private source from St. George we learn that the health of President Young is greatly improved, and that on the last day of the year he attended attend-ed a meeting at 6anta Clara, where Brigham Young, jr., and Joseph A. Young preached to a large audience. Work on the temple is forwarding with great despatch, over 500 men being employed thoroou. Tho walla will bo finished and the roof on by the 10th of May, 1375. President Young may be seen daily watching its progress. The tabernacle will be finished in a month. The crops of cotton, grapes, wine and fruit, this year, were unusually large. The city of St. George is improving and the surrounding country is rapidly filing up, A fino bed of coal has just been opened about twenty miles from Santa Clara, and is brought to St. George for use. Mines of quicksilver have beon opened in that vicinity, and prospects of gold and silver are found. ! Southern Utah was never more promising than now. On tho day before New Year, ploughs were going in all the fields and the buds were swelling. |