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Show News Notes from Sanpete. Santete Co., March 7, 1S77. Editors Herald: Snow storais, high wind, and consequently con-sequently cold weather, are the order of the day in this valley as compensation compensa-tion for the line weather we havo had. These slight snows passing ofl quickly under the genial rays do tho full sown grain much good. It certainly will bo a happy result when our : larmers shall resort more oxtousivoly to fall sowing. Then the vexing and perplexing quostiuu of water, water rights, inhabitants too thick and must ho transplanted to more extensive fields, will be muchly solved. In this fair city ia tho dividing line as between tho ebuoxioua dogma of old and new settlers, which if ever persisted in must stop the growth ol the same. A few only occupy the place where thousands might dwell, trades and various enterprises spring, our young men learn some of these pursuits, and our products be sold and consumed at homu. It would be a aource of good to rich and poor, but the policy seems if you are poor to keep you so. ami work tur us who Cftmo early, gut the cream of the land, and at a i uinoua price iu the heat of tho harvest. The cry is, you can havo land, because this we cannot help, hut no wuler; not a drop. In one place it is ordained that the biirphis waler! shall be turned into the cedars above town, and a heavy penalty applies to him who dares to interfere. As to the bill just passed by the senate published in your issue of Saturday last, being the same as passed by the house last spring, kuown as the Page bill, restricting re-stricting townsite entries to 2,500 acres, etc., does this virtually and actually cut us down from the limits of our corporations to tho limits of our townsites, say 1,260 acres, thus annuling the legislative grants of our charter limits, restricting us to our townsite entry as a city, and for all city purposes, and thus throwing the other part, although now covered by these "enormous incorporations," into what we term preciucts and under county government jurisdiction, consequently bringing our tax asses sor and collector, as well as all police regulations, within the limits of our townsite entry. In fine does it require any act of congress con-gress to declare thee present city grants null and void? Or is it to be understood as in the caso ot tuo Poland bill, wherein it disagreed with some of our legislative enactments, that to set them aside it must so state specifically, or are they set asidg by implication because ot said disagreement disagree-ment therewith? We have much land within our present city limits. No objection has ever beeu urced to the taking up thereof, whether he be Jew or Gentile, nor to a share of the waters under the "control of our city council," except by fanatics who assert these acquired rights to water ae against the growth of our place, but urge no objection to laud prcemp- : tions or homestcadings. An eflort is being made to have a postoffice established under the name of ThiBtleville, Thistle valley, this county,. There are many Indian?) there happily, peacefully and agriculturally agricul-turally located. There is a remarkable remark-able attachment of these Indians and hundreds more to this beautiful valley, and who Bignily their intention inten-tion to coDie and locate, learn the pursuits and ways of the whiles. I The aspirants lor matrimonial honors are numerous, which is in- i dicative of soundness ou the question of marriage, and speaks well for the morality of a community. The despoileifl of the morals of our youth in the shape of salnrmi are at la;t frozen out, notwithstanding tljo "sheet's" protestations and publication publica-tion of lying scurrilous Inhumations, emanr.ting from our city, oud because one man, despite the petition, the earn i st entrvaly ol mothers, sisters, daughters, j-reis s iu selling liquor at all times, to all .igc?, allows gambling on Suud y and other dajs. There are persons who delight to allure our youths ;-r:d, as they, term it, "open their eyes Lo the tyranny of the leaders of this peoplt ;"and because some one in his official capacity seeks to magnify his ofhee, close up these maelstroms of vice, then all the envenomed en-venomed spleen conies out. Tho improvement of our youth consequent OQ cloeiug these places is worth a whole regiment of such men and volumes of their abuse. Justice. |