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Show ST. GEORGE Semi-Annual Conference Local In il iiitrics Political Points. Spoitil Correspondence. St. Gkoeue, Utah, November 6, 187t. Yesterday our lemi-aunual conference con-ference closed, or rather adjourned, for a two days' meeting on the arrival of President Young. The meetings for three days have boon well attended, at-tended, many being present from various southern settlements, every borough being represented. The 'preaching, leaching and instructions have been varied and unusually in teresting. The meetings have been hold in lhe great hall of our tabernacle, taberna-cle, which is new fully completed aud is ono of the moat pleasant, comfortable and tasty rooms in the territory. It is unusually cold for the season of the year aud wo have had several white frosts within a week that have singed the cotton, sweet potatoes and tender plants. Wine making is about over, resulting in an unusually large crop of the fluid. The syrup crop is very good aud in quantity about as usual. There is a large amount of feed and forage laid up, and the acreage of wheat being put in this fall is unusually large, the people concluding that it ia easier to raise grain than haul from Saupete. Tbo work on the temple is nearly completed. com-pleted. The paiuters are crowding j the plasterers, and the latter are hard upon the carpenters. It is calculated ! that a fow weeks will suffice to finish the structure completely. There is j some trade coming up from over the ' Colorado, and as Pioche has collapsed as a market for our surplus produce, ! there is a prospect that the interior of Ariiorja may give us a baiter market. mar-ket. There is at present very fair indications indi-cations that two or more crushing mills will be erected in or about Leeds, and if half the hopes of thoBe interested are realized, we shall, ere we are aware, have a bigger market on our hands than we have bargained bar-gained lor. All our voters are alive and awako to give Hon. George Q. Cannon a square vote, and by tlmr earnest watching of the political situation and expressions of preference, one may easily learn that our people are a race of democrats. J. |