Show WH letter irom from C ae E fletcher laboring laborin ff in lo lowa iowa wa A letter has been received from elder C 2 fletcher who is preaching the gospel in boone county iowa he states that on account of charges in climate food and water his hia health has not been the best bat he be is ia now feeling better the elders have baptised baptized sed eight since ince commencing commencing their labors labora in that vicinity tv tho people as a rule role are exceedingly poor they live lire in little cabins which have bee been n built in clearings claa rines in the i woods wooda in the winter they labor in tha coel coal mines at the rate of per day in the yammer summer they thay have bave but bul little to do the country is fail of magnificent timber it is so BO thick that the vision reaches but a short abon distance each way on account ol of the spase settlement of the country and the extry extreme me poverty of the people there are very few school houses honslea hon hou seea sees from the cabla cabin where elder fletcher fietcher wrote his bis letter there is not a school house for miles around |