| Show Hooper NORTH HoI Weber County Utah December 15th 1SS9 Correspondence Cor-respondence the UESKnnr WS This settlement has about 600 souls wino thrive on the shores of Salt Lake and on tlc old tock range known as tho Hooper range I There is a belt of land extending from North Hooper l Plain City I which at this place 1 four miles wide and very productive being a I sandy loam adapted to produce early small fruits and vegetables South Hooper for about two miles south from this piece looks as though it misses to a considerable extent tho sandy soil which is supplanted with altogether to much alkali The conscquencciipoorer i improvements I and leH thrn As we enter North Hooper from the Kiuth orchards abound and a better class of buildings build-ings appear The old one story frame building now going fast to ruin which is 6U tK j feet long and 2 6 feet wide has done service as a meeting house many years and is now supplanted by a l h Non neat bright i red church 00 feet long and 35 feet in width and as high as mo t two story houses There i also a new music hall in cones of erection the fame size a the old hal with the addition of wings At 2 p m on short notice we had the pleasure giving a lecture on the early rise of the Church illustrated On account of a light form of diphtheria there have been no schools Sunday hOb or meetings here for several weeks until last Sunday The new church is neat within and of imposing appearance The ceiling is twenty fret high the pulpit pul-pit Is plain but very neat and the stand capacious extending the whole width of the building The hal is well tu and lighted Tho vestry is 20x20 and is convenient for small meeting Ujtairs 1 a licautiful prayer room to ofler up thanksiln t the LON in an acceptable ac-ceptable manner The structure and its surroundings including a good flowing well costIO000 Three other building are used for schoolhoucs and lailies relief soCietieS cieties Many comfortable home have sprung forth from poverty toil and tribulation and therefore tol 11 trimbton ld therfore are the lxtter to Is 1 appreciated Truly may it be saldTlicse detcrets have been turned into fruitful fields KDWAKIJ STEVENSON |
