| Show BREEZY letaer WRITTEN FROM PROVO BY PRESIDENT GEORGE A in 1852 progress male in those early days utah was a flourish ins country EDITOR ENQUIRER I 1 herewith hand you a copy of a letter written by president geo A smith and published in the iVill mi al star december II 11 telling of the prosperity of utah county over thirty eight years ago it ft ill no doubt be read with interest by the old settlers settlors sett lors noy hying and by the present generation joab CITY OF PROVO september 27 1852 president samuel W richards I 1 have been wr 3 ears in the habit writing to the president of the british conference but for the last three months have neg lecter to do so in consequence of an unusual press of business I 1 was appointed by the presidency of tbt church to preside over the saints in utah county which is the second in population in the territory the settlements extend in this county a distance of about fifty miles the different branches are known as mountain ville lehi city american fork battle greek provo city springville Spring ville palmyra city payson and uville considering the time it has been set aled and the number of inhabitants utah is one of the most flourishing counties in the world in counting the number of families at this place we hati e not enumerated those who arc continually arriving this summer from the east and other places provo contains over two hundred families three saw mills one grist mi ilone shingle machine propelled by water one carding machine and fulling mill and one manufactory of brown earthenware there is also a turning lathe for turning wooden bowls oue threshing machine propelled by water power and swo cabinet chous A meeting house eighty feet by forty seven to be finished tover commenced last week I 1 let alie brethren who arc newcomers new comers have fifty town lots which cost them only the expense of recording and surveying one dollar and a hah each the company for beet sugar have commenced the erection at this place of a building sixty conr feet long by fifty wide designed tor a factory bishop blackburn is about finishing a house thirty six leet long by twenty four wide two stories high with cellars underneath A great many brethren are continually passing this place to the more southern settlements A new oal vein has been discovered county five feet thick and about one milo nearer the iron works than any heretofore found on friday next the first day of octo oer there will be a conference hold at this aiace to hold three days provo r affords a great amount of water power for machinery we get a taste of trout from utah lake which are very fine there are two erist american fork and one at there is one saw mill at one at hobble creek one on spanish fork and one now building on creek in springville Spring ville there is a school house building forty three feet by twenty seven two stories hibb school houses have been erected in almont every neighborhood friday september 13 snow fell on the mountains while it rained in the valleys bishop felt with some others is or companies in salt lake city for the purpose of strengthening the outer or new counties lam full of business abc present but I 1 shall gryto write to you every month I 1 remain as ever your brotheren bro therin everlasting covenant G A SMITH P S the brethren from the states are continually arriving at this and pother settlements as well as a large california emigration to the land of gold G A S |
